The resulting production is really something: I’ve watched Shannon on stage and screen for some 30 years and this performance is right up there with his best work, especially when it comes to ...

Before that happens, though, Narducy and Michael Shannon will head out on the road to perform R.E.M.’s 1985 album Fables Of The Reconstruction — the follow-up to their Murmur tour.

Shannon insists he’s not playing a role. “I’m not Michael Stipe,” he says, “and that’s okay.” What Shannon and Narducy did that night far outstripped their original intentions.