A more humbled Mike Daisey sat before an audience at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company last night in the latest round of handwringing over his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs. more ›

Mike Daisey, the writer and performer of The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, will address the fabrication controversy over his monologue at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company on Tuesday. more ›

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced today it will no longer present Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs as a work of non-fiction. more ›

Mike Daisey, whose monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was renounced last week by This American Life, attempted to explain himself before a Georgetown University crowd last night. more ›

Even after Mike Daisey's The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was retracted by This American Life, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is sticking with a remount of the one-man show and its author. more ›

Mike Daisey, whose last monologue, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was both hilarious and thought-provoking, returns to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in the 2012-2013 season with a new work. more ›

In Jason Grote's Civilization (all you can eat), premiering this month at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (after a three-show festival run last summer in New York), U.S. society is boiled down into a bunch of gluttonous, frenzied, sexually frustrated consumers. In other words, just about normal. more ›

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is testing out "tweet seats" for their upcoming production of Civilization (all you can eat). Theater purists beware. more ›

Howard Shalwitz, the longtime artistic director of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, co-founded the theatre back in 1980--at a time when the repertory of American plays was limited to academic classics and NYC vogue. With a commitment to new approaches to theatre and a devotion to bringing new playwriting voices into the limelight, Woolly has had not just a tremendous national impact, but has been an important local influence as well as a partner in community development and a force for bringing new audiences to the theatre. Against the backdrop of the Capital Fringe Festival, DCist took to the interwebs to ask him about Woolly's Fringe-minded roots and the Festival's future in the city. more ›

Today at the Fringe, it's your last chance to see a pair of shows from Canada, we give you a good reason to see Atlantis Bones, and Star Wars nerds have their day in the sun. It's everything you need to know about Wednesday at the Fringe, and finding it all is just a click away. New Today: Grounded, by Andrew Ullrich We don't know what Grounded is about, and we don't know who Andrew... more ›

DCist theater critic Missy Frederick contributed to this report. Signature Theatre's production of Urinetown took top honors at last night's Helen Hayes Awards, D.C.'s local theater awards ceremony, taking home 8 prizes including director of a musical (Joe Calarco), choreographer (Karma Camp), four different acting awards (Will Gartshore is pictured right accepting his award for lead actor in a musical, which he shared in a tie with Michael McElroy from Big River), and outstanding resident... more ›

Plays by women; plays about women. The fairer sex captures the imagination of many D.C. theaters this September, offering works by celebrated female authors and performing plays that focus on female characters. And if that's not your thing, well, there's always Kafka. more ›

The Post reports today that a new experimental arts festival is planned for July 2006. The Capital Fringe Festival will be a 10-day showcase of local and visiting performers working in theater, dance, music and other disciplines. According to festival founder Damian Sinclair, director of marketing for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and a relative newbie to D.C., Capital Fringe will be concentrated downtown along the Seventh Street corridor in 20 venues, including theaters, galleries, lobbies, vacant storefronts and outdoor areas. Tickets will be a reasonable $10 and the festival will include approximately 1,000 events. more ›