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WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY

641 D Street NW
Washington, DC 20004

Dance Like There's Black People Watching


From the creators of Black Side of the Moon and She the People, The Second City returns to Woolly Mammoth, now delivering a dose of ...

Guac
Guac
1/25 - 2/16/2025


What do you do when you lose a son? Take it from Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver: you have to ...

It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure


Disability rights…and wrongs. PR firm “Rize” faces accusations of ableism, unleashing a whirlwind of spin, changing narratives, and PC-culture. Enter Ross, a Blind influencer with ...

Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live & active cultures!)


Tonight, renowned filmmaker Akira Kurosawa joins us for a lecture: a look into his iconic filmography, brilliant mind, the thrilling world of movies, and “culture.” ...


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Interview: Theatre Life with Jillian Ebanks


by Elliot Lanes - November 26, 2024

For many years, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has had a long standing relationship with Chicago’s legendary comedy troupe The Second City. This holiday season, they are back with Dance Like There’s Black People Watching. The production runs through December 22nd....

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Reveals 2025 Season Lineup


by Stephi Wild - October 18, 2024

As Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company marches into its 45th anniversary, the Tony Award-winning theatre announces new shows for 2025. Learn more about the lineup here!...

Review: THE COMEUPPANCE at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company


by David Friscic - September 18, 2024

Themes of identity, bonding, loss, self-realization and especially death permeate the numerous layers of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins’ thought-provoking play The Comeuppance. This penetrating work explores so many layers that it is best to let the experience take you where it will. The high school reunion...

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company & The Wilma Theater to Co-Produce THE COMEUPPANCE


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 21, 2024

Woolly Mammoth Theatre in DC and the Wilma Theater in Philly will team up to co-produce THE COMEUPPANCE. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Theatre Washington Will Launch Theatre Week 2024 Next Month


by Stephi Wild - August 16, 2024

Theatre Washington has announced Theatre Week 2024, a celebration of the DC-area’s vibrant, diverse, and first-rate theatre scene from September 26 to October 13....

Cast Set For Studio's Season Opener EXCEPTION TO THE RULE


by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 12, 2024

Studio Theatre's first show of the 2024-2025 season will be Exception to the Rule. See who is starring and learn more about the production....

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Presents  HA HA HA HA HA HA HA


by A.A. Cristi - June 18, 2024

Julia Masli brings her acclaimed show to Washington DC after a series of sold-out performances. Don't miss the chance to see this highly anticipated production....

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...

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!...

Past Shows

The Jam Comedy Show


Join us for a one-hour comedy extravaganza featuring the hilarious talents of Jillian Ebanks, Arlieta Hall, and Max Thomas from The Second City’s Dance Like ...

The Comeuppance
The Comeuppance
9/8 - 10/6/2024


WELCOME BACK CLASS OF 2003! On the night of their 20th high school reunion, the self-proclaimed “Multi-Ethnic Reject Group” reconnects while they pregame in Prince ...

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


hahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahaha hihihi hahahahahahahaha hoho hahahhahahaha hehe hahahahahahahahahaha “THE BREAKOUT STAR OF THIS YEAR’S EDINBURGH FRINGE.” THE NEW YORK TIMES ★★★★★ “THE YEAR’S MOST EXCITING, ...

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 ...

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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