Comedian, attorney and Hulu's Muslim Matchmaker co-host Yasmin Elhady takes the stage in her first solo theater show, written and performed by Elhady, directed by Ryan Cunningham, and produced by Amy Saidman. Through raw comedy and true stories, Elhady explores faith, family...
Venus is a dark comedy by Steve Yockey, creator of HBO's Flight Attendant and Netflix's Dead Boy Detective, directed by Woolly Mammoth Artistic Director Reggie D. White. Nicole likes things orderly while Beth is all instinct, and what begins as an intoxicating collision of...
Riki Lindhome returns to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company with her deeply funny, deeply personal musical about her real-life fertility journey, including hormone shots, invasive tests, and monthly disappointment. Part musical, part solo stand-up spiral, the show transforms the...
Hanukkah Spectacular is a world premiere comedy written by Lucille Lortel Nominee Max Posner and directed by Tony-winner David Cromer. Set over a long weekend in a Midtown talent agency, a group of Jewish artists attempt to create a commercially viable holiday hit about...
Ten Grand is a world premiere play by Princess Grace Award winner Kate Cortesi, directed by Reggie D. White. Set in a Boston-area Goodwill store, employees and customers form quiet alliances, rituals, and rivalries amid donated goods, while one detail-oriented worker navigates a...
Bobby Robotowitz is a world premiere play written by Matt Schatz and directed by Woolly Mammoth Company Member Jared Mezzocchi, co-produced with City Theatre of Pittsburgh. Dina, a novelist down on her luck and running out of words, turns to a chatbot named Bobby Robotowitz for...
Love I Awethu Further is a world premiere poetic adaptation of Julius Caesar written by Susan Smith Blackburn Prize winner a.k. payne and directed by Tamilla Woodard, produced in association with Jamila Ponton Bragg. Set on a plantation that Mistress Catherine insists is a...
Cabarets are always a bit of a crap shoot depending on the performer’s theme and choice of material. Signature Theatre’s current cabaret offering is a prime example of what happens when the performer and the material are in perfect sync. Take the immeasurable talents of Tracy Lynn Olivera, add a…
What did our critic think of THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR at Arena Stage?…
Besides the massive geopolitics of it all, the terror attacks also jolted individual emotions , almost to a person. We dealt as a nation with loss, felt empathy, a degree of hopelessness and a welling of national pride and determination as a way to endure and persevere.…
What did our critic think of PHILADELPHIA BALLET at Wolf Trap?…
The world premiere production kicking off the 51st season at GALA Hispanic Theatre, “GARBO: The Actor Who Saved the World,” is not, it turns out, about Greta at all. Rather, it’s about somebody else far fewer people have heard of, who was working roughly the same time — World War II to be sp…
Merrily We Roll Along tackles these behemoth existentialisms at a granular level in the lives of three old friends. It’s one of those shows that leaves you with something to ponder for days after the lights come up. In Signature Theatre’s hands, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s masterpiece …
Freddie: A Girl (now being presented by the Taffety Punk Theatre Company) is a triumph of theatrical form over content. The subject of resistance fighters against the Nazis in World War II is obviously a fraught and very serious business especially in these polarized times-- but Director Lise Brunea…
Diana Gitelman brings her one-person show to the Logan Festival of Solo Performance. See what our critic had to say.…
If you’ve ever wondered what it may be like to party with the Brontё sisters, get ready to sip on a lot of cordials, margaritas, and rosè and experience an evening like no other at Nu Sass Productions’ Brontё Sister House Party.…
It is not often that a singer can enter a stage with a full symphony orchestra playing behind him and hold a sold out crowd of 7,028 people spellbound. This past Saturday evening at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, Grammy nominated singer/actor Josh Groban did just that while being backed by YOUR Nation…
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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 inspiring them. Youll hear from Woollyverse artists you know and love, as well as some folks that were excited to introduce...
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 it’s totally meaningless? And so what if her doctor husband disapproves? With it Francine can turn the campaign...
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 1884-1915, rehearsal descends from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors come together to tell the...
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 struggles to get out from under the shadow of his mother Emma, a famous actress. Meanwhile, his young muse Nina falls for...
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 spaces for ourselves in which we act out our dreams of a better world. Daisey takes us everywhere to pursue the...
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: - Danai Gurira; dir: Michael John Garces.
Following the side-splitting debut of their brand new show In The Middle Of No One at the Q-staff theatre earlier this year, The Pajama Men stormed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, sold out a run at the Soho Theatre in London, became the toast of the town at The...
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? International cabaret sensation Joey Arias and Obie Award-winning puppeteer Basil Twist team up for an eye-popping musical tour, from Genesis to risqué...
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 and ingenuity. But while they’re busy cooking up schemes for love and success, the beasts of agribusiness are closing in...
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Brian Henson's Puppet Up! Lincoln Theatre (9/30-9/30) |
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GARBO: EL ACTOR QUE SAVÓ AL MUNDO (Garbo: The Actor Who Saved The World) GALA Hispanic Theatre (9/03-9/27) |
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A Monument To Comedy DC Improv (9/15-9/15) |
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Coming to America: An Immigrant Cabaret ExPats Theatre (9/30-10/18) |
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Some Like It Hot Bernard Family Theatre, Olney Theatre Center (9/18-11/08) |
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Stonewall's Bust The Writers Center (10/09-10/25) |
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The Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show The Dinner Detective Washington DC (10/24-10/24) |
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The Fruits of Our Labor Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater (9/10-11/01) |
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Factory of Fear - Outbreak ARTfactory (10/15-10/24) |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Adventure Theatre MTC (4/09-5/23) |
