Woolly seeks 10 to tweet up Mr. Burns, a post-electric play
Howard Shalwitz on Direction of a Play, 2012 Helen Hayes Awards
What’s striking to me about the list of nominees for Outstanding Direction this year is the range of stylistic territory it covers. Not just the range of stories, but some deeper questions about how to craft an experience in the theatre. [Read more...]
Earth, Outer Space and the Inner Urge, Twisted together in Arias with a Twist
Mike Daisey returns to Woolly Mammoth to face fans and detractors
This American Life airs its repudiation of Mike Daisey broadcast
The public-radio show This American Life, which had devoted a broadcast in January to Mike Daisey’s exposé of working conditions in the People’s Republic of China devoted today’s broadcast to retracting its January show and to accusing Daisey of fabricating large parts of it in a face to face interview.
This American Life pulls Mike Daisey monologue. “Daisey lied.” show’s host says
Wired reports that the entire This American Life episode which featured an excerpt from Mike Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs about working conditions inside the Foxconn factory, has been retracted because Daisey “partially fabricated” details of his visit to the Chinese factory.
Woolly’s 2012-2013 features three world premieres, Mike Daisey and men wearing PJs
Civilization (all you can eat)
Mike Daisey takes on Apple apologists, and invites performers to do his show, royalty free
How Mike Daisey has changed America
Mike Daisey brought his provocative, withering attack on the state of regional theater, How Theater Failed America, to Woolly Mammoth in 2009. Why are successful actors “traveling like migrant farmhands”, he asked. Why are theatres taking fewer risks? Why is attendance declining even as the need for people to hear the stories grows? The Daiseyquake set off rumbles among the DC theatre community. Theatremakers held discussions, sometimes passionate ones, about what Daisey had said. But the needle of change barely moved. For that, he had to wait two years. [Read more...]













