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WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY

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Washington, DC 20004

Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
6/5 - 6/23/2024


THEATRICAL CO-WORLD PREMIERE WITH FRINGEARTS AND LA MAMA ETC Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister ...

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
7/17 - 8/3/2024


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Review: ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company


by David Friscic - June 10, 2024

Rose: You Are Who You Eat is an irreverent (yet, concurrently, affectionate) look at a performer/cabaret artist’s autobiographical impulse and gender identity questions/affirmations set against the metaphor of cannibalism as a “who gets devoured?”/”feasting/ingestion”  metaphor ---that plays into “d...

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Heads Into 45th Anniversary With Summer & Fall Lineup 


by A.A. Cristi - June 07, 2024

Woolly Mammoth Theatre announces its new season, adopting the London model of short-term programming. The season will run through the end of the year with diverse and dynamic productions....

ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT Comes To Woolly Mammoth Theatre


by Stephi Wild - May 22, 2024

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present John Jarboe's ROSE: YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT, in association with The Bearded Ladies Cabaret. ...

Stephanie J. Block, Rob McClure, and More Receive 2024 Helen Hayes Awards


by Stephi Wild - May 21, 2024

On May 20, 2024, the 40th Helen Hayes Awards took place at The Anthem on the District Wharf, with over 1,600 theatre-makers and theatre supporters in attendance. Learn more about the winners here!...

Review: AMM(I)GONE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company


by David Friscic - April 28, 2024

The semantics and silence that delineate love and disclosure are operating at full throttle in the probing personal story of playwright and performer Adil Mansoor in the theatrical experience that is entitled Amm(i)gone. As the uber-talented Mansoor invites his very traditional Pakistani mother to t...

Washington Stage Guild Closes Season with World Premiere of AN UNBUILT LIFE


by A.A. Cristi - April 12, 2024

Get the latest cast updates for the Washington Stage Guild's production of AN UNBUILT LIFE....

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Presents Benefit Reading Of Sarah Ruhl's DEAR ELIZABETH


by A.A. Cristi - April 10, 2024

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a live benefit reading of Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again....

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Present AMM(I)GONE  


by A.A. Cristi - March 26, 2024

Learn more about the national tour of AMM(I)GONE from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with Kelly Strayhorn Theater....

Justin Weaks' A FINE MADNESS Will Receive Workshop at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company 


by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2024

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present the workshop of A Fine Madness, written and performed by Helen Hayes award-winning actor Justin Weaks....

THE LEHMAN TRILOGY & More Lead Washington, DC's March 2024 Top Theatre Shows


by Team BWW - March 01, 2024

Washington, DC is never lacking outstanding theatre, whether epic Broadway shows, engrossing dramas or bold fringe offerings. BroadwayWorld is rounding up our top recommended theatre every month. Selections for March 2024 include The Lehman Trilogy and more....

Past Shows

Sherry Vine: Smoke and Mirrors


CO-PRESENTED BY THE WASHINGTON BLADE Aged to perfection. Six-time Granny Nominee, drag legend Sherry Vine, is coming out… as 60! That’s right, spoiler alert, she’s ...

Public Obscenities
Public Obscenities
11/13 - 12/23/2023


When Choton returns to Kolkata on a research trip with his Black American boyfriend Raheem, his grandfather’s photograph stares down at him from the walls of ...

My Mama & The Full-Scale Invasion


Sasha’s 82-year-old mother, Olga, is on the frontlines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, having lived in Kyiv her whole life. Olga is thrust into increasingly ...

Incendiary
Incendiary
5/29 - 6/25/2023


Tanya is a Black mother determined to break her son, Eric, out of death row — or die trying. She’ll need guns, to get her ...

Urinetown
Urinetown
8/11 - 8/13/2022


The Musical Theatre Institute for Teens presentsUrinetownMusic by Mark Hollmann; Lyrics by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis; Book by Greg KotisDirected by Aidan QuartanaMusic Direction ...

A STRANGE LOOP
11/22 - 1/2/2022

THIS IS WHO I AM
THIS IS WHO I AM
12/5 - 1/3/2021


Separated by continents, an estranged father and son reunite over Zoom. From their respective kitchens in Ramallah and New York City, they recreate a cherished ...

HUMAN RESOURCES
HUMAN RESOURCES
10/1 - 11/1/2020


Telephonic Literary Union makes stories for very small audiences using phones, thoughtfully curated environments, and the theater of the mind. This fall, TLU re-purposes the ...

WOOLLY’S WONDERLIST: HOSTED BY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, MARIA MANUELA GOYANES


Shake up your weeknight routine with our new conversation series, Woollys Wonderlist, where we ask the folks who inspire us to chat about whats currently ...


High school is hard enough, but when you have a power hungry 17-year-old threatening to overthrow anyone in his way to becoming junior class President, ...

Fairview
9/13 - 10/6/2019


Jackie Sibblies Drury Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company...

Describe the Night
5/20 - 6/16/2019


Rajiv Joseph Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company...

THE TOTALITARIANS
THE TOTALITARIANS
6/2 - 6/29/2014


Francine, the ambitious speechwriter for a rich housewife’s vanity campaign for public office, has stumbled upon pure gold: a perfectly patriotic slogan. So what if ...

We Are Proud to Present...
We Are Proud to Present...
2/10 - 3/9/2014


In We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years ...

Stupid Fing Bird
Stupid Fing Bird
5/27 - 6/23/2013


WORLD PREMIERE by Aaron Posner Sort of adapted from The Seagull by Anton Chekhov Directed by Howard Shalwitz An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad ...

American Utopias
American Utopias
3/19 - 4/14/2013


WORLD PREMIERE, created and performed by Mike Daisey Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory Mike Daisey shows us a distinctly American vision of utopia—how we create civic ...

The Convert
The Convert
2/11 - 3/10/2013


OBIE Award-winner Danai Gurira returns to Woolly with her rich, unflinching, and compassionate new play. Set amid the colonial scramble for Southern Africa in 1895, ...

The Pajama Men: In the Middle of No One


Created and Performed by The Pajama Men AKA Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez Music by Kevin Hume Following sell-out runs in London’s West End, Albuquerque ...

You for Me for You
You for Me for You
11/5 - 12/2/2012


WORLD PREMIERE by Mia Chung Directed by Yury Urnov In Association with Ma-Yi Theater Company Two North Korean sisters—facing starvation at the hands of a ...

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity


This 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist is a drop-kicking, body-slamming, balls-out theatrical happening about the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling. Tired of making other pro wrestlers ...

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs


“In my 32 years as Artistic Director, I can’t think of a single show that has had more impact on the world than The Agony ...

Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play


Armageddon has hit, and all that remains is our nostalgia for a lost pop culture. In Anne Washburn’s riveting vision of post-apocalyptic America, survivors invent ...

Arias With a Twist
Arias With a Twist
4/4 - 5/6/2012


When aliens abduct a large drag queen and drop her in a teeny Garden of Eden, will she have enough room to fall from grace? ...

Civilization (All You Can Eat)


Does humanity have an expiration date? Four hungry friends from grad school face the dawn of the recession in this scathing satire of American enterprise ...

Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies


Laugh while you can 'cause things ain't gettin’ better. Next season, Woolly artists fly to Chicago to work with The Second City's classic comedy wizards ...

A Bright New Boise
A Bright New Boise
10/10 - 11/6/2011


Prepare yourself: in the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning The Rapture. Samuel D. Hunter's heartbreakingly funny reckoning between ...

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