Aaron Posner’s take on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull is what you get from a writer who not only adores the material he’s adapting, but understands it precisely.

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.