Continuing its experiment with social media engagement through Tweet Ups, Woolly Mammoth is inviting ten participants to tweet the final dress rehearsal for their next production, a play which questions “how you’d make sense of the world if all your gizmos were gone.”  [Read more...]

Monologist Mike Daisey, who has admitted that his play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs contained significant inaccuracies, apologized to Woolly Mammoth audiences at the theater last night. [Read more...]

At 1pm today, WAMU 88.5 aired the results of This American Life’s investigation after airing ‘Mike Daisey goes to the Apple factory’ last January. Here’s what they uncovered.

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.

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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Daisey’s monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs about working conditions inside the Foxconn factory, has been retracted because Daisey “partially fabricated” details of his visit to the Chinese factory.

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Having nearly completed a season devoted to inquiries about the expiration of civilization, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has elected to invest its 2012-2013 season with new plays and the investigation of unfamiliar cultures: the newest play by Danai Gurira (Eclipse), an Aaron Posner play loosely based on Chekhov’s The Seagull, the maiden effort of a promising Brown University MFA,  and the return of Mike Daisey with a new monologue.

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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...]