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 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.
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Woolly Mammoth Sticking With Mike Daisey After This American Life Disavows His Steve Jobs Piece
Even after Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was retracted by This American Life, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is sticking with a remount of the one-man show and its author.
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DCist Interview: Mike Birbiglia
Mike Birbiglia, dressed for success. Mike Birbiglia remembers when the room was a lot smaller. He’s headlining Saturday night at the Warner Theatre, where he’ll tell some stories he’s considering for inclusion in his next one-man show. But he cut his teeth at the DC Improv in the late 90s, while a student at Georgetown University. By the time he was 25, he’d done the The Late Show with David Letterman , released his…
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