Mike Daisey News

On Monday, October 22 at 9:30 PM, Mike Daisey will return to Joe's Pub at The Public Theater to debut new monologues in the first of a series of monthly premieres through March 2013. Each month, Daisey will bring a new, groundbreaking monologue to Joe's Pub for a one-night-only engagement. In October, Daisey will premiere AMERICAN UTOPIAS. Tickets are $20 reserved / $25 premium and go on sale today, http://joespub.com/.

Horse Trade Theater Group (Heidi Grumelot, Artistic Director, Erez Ziv, Managing Director) will present the First Annual Gotham Storytelling Festival; collecting some of the best shows curated and produced by Horse Trade Artistic Director Heidi Grumelot and resident hosts Peter Aguero, Seth Lind and Adam Wade.

Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season brings five plays to Stage West at The Herberger Theater Center beginning with Mike Daisey's controversial The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (tonight, Sept. 21-Oct. 7) and ending with the critically acclaimed Good People (May 3-19) by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has announced the one week extension of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, now playing through October 7, 2012.

University of Texas campus activities will resume at 5pm today and Mike Daisey's performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs will go on as previously scheduled this evening at 8pm at McCullough Theatre.

THE 2012 ALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL featuring 10 solo plays and musicals written and performed by 10 extraordinary artists, begins today, September 14th at The Cherry Lane Theatre/Mainstage, 38 Commerce Street, NYC, and continues through September 30th.

Ira Glass brings his show tonight, September 8, 2012, to Benaroya Hall. It has been two years since his last Seattle appearance. This American Life fans are passionate about the show's content and Ira Glass's recent, and now legendary, "Retraction Episode" with former Seattle resident and playwright Mike Daisey is expected to add fuel to the fan's desire to see host and producer, Ira Glass, live

THE 2012 ALL FOR ONE THEATER FESTIVAL featuring 10 solo plays and musicals written and performed by 10 extraordinary artists, begins Friday, September 14th at The Cherry Lane Theatre/Mainstage, 38 Commerce Street, NYC, and continues through September 30th.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Kristoffer Diaz and directed by Woolly Company Member John Vreeke, opens Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's Season 33, tonight, September 3 through September 30, 2012.

Following the launch of The Black Women Playwrights Group's Cyber Narrative Project at Woolly Mammoth last February, the theatre has introduced DC audiences to Powerbomb!, an online video game inspired by Woolly's season opener, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz.

Fall 2012 will see Chicago continue to produce some of the most exciting theater in the country. Offerings from the city's more than 200 producing theaters includes a range of special fall programming, featuring everything from the latest musicals to highly anticipated world premieres.

In 2010, Texas Performing Arts presented Mike Daisey performing his hit monologue The Last Cargo Cult.Daisey returns to the McCullough Theatre stage with his controversial new show, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS.

Apple junkie Mike Daisey's controversial first-person retelling of stories from the Foxconn factory in China where most of the world's electronic gadgets are produced, The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, will open Actors Theatre's 2012-13 season, Sept. 21 to Oct. 7, on Stage West of the Herberger Theater Center, 222 E. Monroe.

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Kristoffer Diaz and directed by Woolly Company Member John Vreeke, opens Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's Season 33, September 3 - 30, 2012.

Jeff Zinn Returns to the Harbor Stage for Three Day Special Event: THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF MIKE DAISEY.

Theatre Communications Group (TCG) convened 1,000 theatre practitioners from around the world at its 22nd National Conference June 21-23 in Boston. This year's conference was the culmination of TCG's 50th anniversary and the beginning of TCG's year-round conference and online community, Conference 2.0. The conference theme of Model the Movement invited attendees to transform their field into a movement for the digital age by better sharing, measuring and adapting models of making theatre. Executive Director Teresa Eyring also publically shared for the first time TCG's new vision statement.

Following a successful three-phased fund-raising effort that generated nearly $500,000 from more than 850 donors - almost 600 who donated for the first time - the Actors Theatre Board of Directors has officially raised the curtain on the 2012-13 season including the company's first-ever three-show summerstock schedule.

Jeff Zinn Returns to the Harbor Stage for Three Day Special Event: THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF MIKE DAISEY.

Mike Daisey's Monologue, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, is a master-class in the delivery a monologue. At the same time, it offers compelling insight on global issues of concern.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company remounts the monologue from Mike Daisey (creator and performer) and Jean-Michele Gregory (director), The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs from tonight, July 17 to August 5, 2012. BroadwayWorld has a first look at Mike Daisey in the role.