Howard Shalwitz News

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will welcome back The Second City for Let Them Eat Chaos, the company's sixth visiting production to appear at Woolly. Once again, the famed Chicago troupe will be skewering American culture to subversive and hilarious effect at Woolly from tonight, July 7 to August 2.

The Kennedy Center, in association with the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, the National New Play Network (NNPN)-the country's alliance of non-profit theaters that champions the development, production, and continued life of new plays-and with Stanford University's National Center for New Plays, will host more than 50 playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs from July 25 to August 2, 2015 as part of the 10th annual weeklong MFA Playwrights' Workshop featuring new works by MFA students from Columbia University, Northwestern University, Fordham University, Yale School of Drama, the Juilliard School, New York University-Tisch School of the Arts, University of California-San Diego, and the Juilliard School.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is pleased to welcome back The Second City for Let Them Eat Chaos, the company's sixth visiting production to appear at Woolly. Once again, the famed Chicago troupe will be skewering American culture to subversive and hilarious effect at Woolly from July 7 to August 2.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be inviting audiences to attend pre- and post-show 'House Lights Up' events, curated by Woolly Mammoth's Connectivity Department, that coincide with the final production of Woolly's Season 35, Zombie: The American by Robert O'Hara, directed by Howard Shalwitz.

If the dystopian future of Robert O'Hara's new satirical look of American politics come true, there will be a few changes to the nation as we know it. The Presidency will return to Lordships and Ladies due to removing all nuclear weapons because of the 'India Incident'. The west coast of the US will be in a civil war against the east, Cotton XP will be a prime commodity, the United African Nations will want to invade the US, and oh, there are zombies running a shadow government in the basement of the White House (which now resides inside Mount Rushmore).

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will be inviting audiences to attend pre- and post-show "House Lights Up" events, curated by Woolly Mammoth's Connectivity Department, that coincide with the final production of Woolly's Season 35, Zombie: The American by Robert O'Hara, directed by Howard Shalwitz.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its climactic production of Season 35, the world premiere of Zombie: The American by Woolly's playwright-in-residence Robert O'Hara, directed by Woolly Mammoth Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz. Zombie: The American will run from May 25 to June 21, 2015.

Music Director Marin Alsop leads her final Off the Cuff concert of the 2014-2015 season in collaboration with playwright in residence and director Didi Balle for a symphonic play exploring the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as he wrote his Fifth Symphony. The semi-staged production, taking place tonight, April 10, at 8:15 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore and Saturday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, will take audiences into the mind of Tchaikovsky as he expresses his thoughts and feelings on fate, death, sexuality, money, madness and love.

The 2015/16 Season at Syracuse Stage is bookended with comedies. Opening the season in October is Steve Martin's farcical romp The Underpants. The season will close in May 2016 with a brand new madcap comedy spoof of Sherlock Holmes' most famous case in Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: a Sherlock Holmes Mystery.

Baltimore, Md. (April 6, 2015) — Music Director Marin Alsop leads her final Off the Cuff concert of the 2014-2015 season in collaboration with playwright in residence and director Didi Balle for a symphonic play exploring the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as he wrote his Fifth Symphony. The semi-staged production, taking place on Friday, April 10, at 8:15 p.m. at The Music Center at Strathmore and Saturday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, will take audiences into the mind of Tchaikovsky as he expresses his thoughts and feelings on fate, death, sexuality, money, madness and love.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced its 2015-2016 season, featuring a world premiere as well as new plays receiving their Washington area premieres after garnering accolades from performances in New York, Los Angeles, and London including the Laurents/Hatcher Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Obie Award for Best New American Play. Woolly's new season features the work of Sheila Callaghan, Jennifer Haley, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Rajiv Joseph, the Chicago Neo-Futurists and Canadian duo Marcus Youssef and James Long.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its next production in Season 35: Lights Rise on Grace, a world premiere by acclaimed playwright Chad Beckim. Woolly Company Member Michael John Garces, who helmed recent Woolly shows including We Are Proud and The Convert, will direct the new production. Lights Rise on Grace will run from Monday, March 30 to Sunday, April 26, 2015.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will welcome back The Second City for Let Them Eat Chaos, the company's sixth visiting production to appear at Woolly. Once again, the famed Chicago troupe will be skewering American culture to subversive and hilarious effect at Woolly from July 7 to August 2.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces its next production in Season 35: Cherokee, by Obie Award-winning playwright Lisa D'Amour. Enlarging on the themes explored in D'Amour's 2013 Woolly hit Detroit, Cherokee follows a fresh cast of characters pushed to the brink as their escape from the trappings of civilization opens the path to a new life. Woolly Company Member John Vreeke, who also directed Detroit, will direct the new production. Cherokee will run from Monday, February 9 to Sunday, March 8, 2015.

New York's home for the Classics announces its inaugural exploration of what modern language brings to timeless stories. With 12 days of readings and discussions, The Pearl's Resident Acting Company and three contemporary playwrights will investigate the power of language, the fortitude of classic stories, and the tricky role of the adapter in tackling these often-told tales.

In a continued outpouring of solidarity among a giant consortium of the American theater's artistic directors, more than 30 additional artistic directors have signed the open letter that was issued yesterday in support of Ari Roth, following his recent dismissal from the Jewish Community Center in Washington, D.C., where he has served as Artistic Director of Theater J for the past 18 years.

In an unprecedented display of solidarity among a giant consortium of the American theater's artistic directors, an open letter has been issued in support of Ari Roth, following his recent dismissal from the Jewish Community Center in Washington, D.C., where he has served as Artistic Director of Theater J for the past 18 years. The letter, released earlier today represents the views of top theater brass from coast-to-coast, who believe that his dismissal was an act of politically motivated censorship in retaliation for Roth's choice to produce and publicly defend challenging and provocative work.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced that the Old Trout Puppet Workshop will bring Famous Puppet Death Scenes to DC this December. Since its premiere in January 2006 at the PuSh International Theatre Festival in Vancouver, the show has enjoyed over 150 performances, playing to sold-out houses from Calgary to Seville. Woolly is thrilled to offer Famous Puppet Death Scenes as a darkly comedic alternative to more typical seasonal theatre fare.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater's Stackner Cabaret once again welcomes the glittering costumes and chandeliers of Liberace!. Brilliant local musician and performer Jack Forbes Wilson will reprise his triumphant portrayal of Liberace, the man who defined four decades of music and pop culture, after an acclaimed world premiere production which ran during The Rep's 2010/11 Season. This loving tribute to Liberace is written and directed by Rep Associate Artistic Director Brent Hazelton, with original music direction and composition by Jack Forbes Wilson. Liberace! runs in The Rep's Stackner Cabaret from November 7, 2014 - January 11, 2015 and opens Sunday, November 9.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announces the inaugural APPETIZERS series, designed to curate a conversation between the community and Woolly's artists in the creation and development of the theatre's work. For three evenings this fall, Woolly will invite the public to play a unique role in ongoing workshops of Season 35 shows. Each APPETIZERS event will be devoted to one of the upcoming new plays in Woolly's 2014-15 season: Cherokee, Lights Rise on Grace, and Zombie: The American.