The downtown D.C. theater company is putting on the world premiere of the play, “The Sensational Sea-Minkettes.”
DCist’s theater previews are back, and this one is jam-packed with a long-awaited Woolly Mammoth debut, a modern retelling of Othello and a lesser known work by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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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…
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Have you heard? There’s this Fringe Festival going on all across the city. It looks like Flickr user Beck Exposed made it out to the Woolly Mammoth Theatre this week and took a fine photograph while she was at it (under a Creative Commons license). The opposing staircases tightly frame the center as the lines slowly take you out to the edges. The photo’s EXIF data is here….
