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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hyperbole can be dangerous, but it’s hard to think of a more laugh-inducing scene that we’ve seen on the DC stage this season than Kate Eastwood Norris’s exchange with, well, herself, during Woolly Mammoth Theater’s uproarious production of She Stoops to Comedy. Kate is playing two lesbian lovers, Kay Fien and Jayne Summerhouse. The wonderfully self-aware She Stoops is more than conscious of the fact that the actress has been on double duty, and keeps…
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…
Who will win the Battle of the Batty? In Woolly Mammoth Theater’s production of The Gigli Concert, each character is a contender. In one corner we have the fidgety, self-absorbed and ultimately nutty J.P.W. King (Howard Shalwitz), practitioner of Dynamatology, a pseudoscience never fully explained, which comes off as a nonsensical marriage of philosophy and psychology. There’s Mona (Kimberly Schraf), the sexually aggressive adulteress chatting with a young girl who doesn’t appear to be there….
