All posts tagged "woolly mammoth theatre company"
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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 –...
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Born to Puppeteer
When Basil Twist saw Joey Arias flirting with his puppets, he knew it was fate. ''They had so much chemistry together,'' Twist says. ''The puppets...
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Comedy Accompli
A little edgy, a little existential and a lot funny, Second City's Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies, is a high-energy riff on the idea, more or...
