All posts tagged "woolly mammoth theatre company"
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Women Laughing Alone with Salad at Woolly Mammoth (review)
As they say about life, no one gets out alive. And at this point, the same might be said for women and their identities. A...
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Woolly Mammoth’s “Zombie: The American” (Review)
Though chock full of great ideas, Zombie: The American needed to be a lot edgier and wittier
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Review: “Lights Rise on Grace” at Woolly Mammoth
Dueling protagonists nearly cancel each other out in Woolly's latest production
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Stage: Spring Arts Preview 2015
It may feel as though the theater season is winding down, but there are still plenty of great shows to come from all the major...
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King of Pain: King Hedley II (Review)
King Hedley II is a ruthlessly honest examination of the profound costs of prejudice
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Puppet Masters: Famous Puppet Death Scenes at Woolly (Review)
A nonconformist troupe brings to Woolly's stage an extraordinary spectacle of puppetry
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Woolly Mammoth’s Marie Antoinette (Theatre Review)
Playwright David Adjmi gives us a voyeur's view of Marie Antoinette
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“Private Lives,” “The Totalitarians” feature strong female protagonists, but leave unanswered questions
Separated by time and genre, you wouldn’t expect Noel Coward’s 1930s ever-so-British rom-com Private Lives to have much in common with Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s The...
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Southern Man
In an extraordinary combination, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's Appropriate is funny, unflinchingly honest, and awful in the best possible way. Somewhere in the neighborhood of Tracy Lett's...
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On the Road to Nowhere
Sometimes it’s all about the synergy. With Woolly’s Detroit, the power of the ride is not just in playwright Lisa D’Amour’s potently drawn prisoners of America’s...
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Bird Brain
A gloriously neurotic, hilariously self-aware cri de coeur as told through a cleverly irreverent adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird is...
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Wrestling Demons
A semi-satirical distillation of the mercenary world of professional wrestling as recounted by a particularly ambivalent member of its fraternity, Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance...
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Apocalypse Now
The best way to approach Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, is to forget how funny The Simpsons is. For although playwright Anne Washburn bases her...
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Arias with a Twist at Woolly Mammoth
Man, if we had a dollar for every time we’ve seen a drag queen onstage simulating a three-way with satanic puppets, we’d have… a dollar...
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Unchained Arias
Joey Arias is one strange fruit. That's true not just because the gay male performance artist gained some fame a couple decades ago singing –...
