Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company to Present THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF STEVE JOBS, 7/7-8/5

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will remount the mega-hit monologue from the critically acclaimed team of Mike Daisey (creator and performer) and Jean-Michele Gregory (director), The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs from July 17–August 5, 2012.

Called the "best original American play of 2011" (The Washington Post), The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs was first performed in the summer of 2010 at Woolly Mammoth and returned for its DC premiere in spring 2011. Since then, it has toured to 18 cities and been seen by over 75,000 people, including two runs off-Broadway at The Public Theater, and garnered national media attention including an in-depth New York Times piece on the human costs of manufacturing in Chinese factories, appearances on Real Time with Bill Maher and CBS Sunday Morning, and an adaptation of the show for NPR's This American Life with Ira Glass, which has quickly become the most downloaded episode in that radio show's history.

"The journey of this monologue has been an epic one," said Mike Daisey, "and it was born at Woolly Mammoth, a pioneering theater that makes the kind of theater that breaks boundaries and changes the world. I couldn't be more delighted to bring this work back to where it was born, just feet from our nation's capitol as we debate what story we want manufacturing and globalism to tell to the next generation. This work has woken up the world, and woken up Apple, because it's a human story about something we all knew, but refused to look at. Theater has always been the voice of people gathered together-it can be a path toward illuminating the human heart, and through that light call for us all to work for change. I hope DC audiences will join us."

Tickets for The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs start at $40, and can be purchased through the Woolly Mammoth Box Office at 202-393-3939, online at www.woollymammoth.net, or in person at 641 D Street, NW (7^th & D). For directions and parking information, please visit www.woollymammoth.net.

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