About the Show

Mike Daisey recently came under fire when This American Life retracted its episode, "Mr. Daisey Goes to China." In it, Ira Glass revealed a series of fabrications, exaggerations, and half-truths in Mike’s monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.

This has been a much-covered subject in the media, and we encourage you to explore the issue and engage with us. We are eager for your feedback and to hear your thoughts on this nuanced subject.

Click here to hear audio from Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s public forum on Tuesday, March 27, with Mike Daisey, Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz, and Managing Director Jeffrey Herrmann.

Click here to read our most recent response to the scandal.

 

Click here to read our initial blog post
when the story was first released.

Click here to listen to the Retraction episode
of This American Life.

Click here and here to read Mike’s statements on the matter.

Click here to listen to Mike’s prologue from his performance
of Steve Jobs immediately following the retraction.

Click here to listen to Daisey’s talk at Georgetown University where he addresses the incident.

 

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Programming:

Stay tuned for more conversations, events, and other fun activities through the run of this production.

 

Who's Who

 

MIKE DAISEY(Creator and Performer) has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times for his groundbreaking monologues which weave together autobiography, gonzo journalism, and unscripted performance to tell hilarious and heartbreaking stories that cut to the bone, exposing secret histories and unexpected connections. His monologues include last season’s The Last Cargo Cult, critically acclaimed If You See Something Say Something, the controversial How Theater Failed America, the six-hour epic Great Men of Genius, the unrepeatable series All Stories Are Fiction, and the international sensation 21 Dog Years. Over the last decade he has brought his work to venues including the Public Theater, the Cherry Lane Theater, the Barrow Street Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater, the Spoleto Festival, American Repertory Theatre, Center Theater Group, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Noorderzon Festival, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Perseverance Theatre, Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Intiman Theatre, the Under the Radar Festival, Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, Performance Space 122, and many more. He’s been a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, as well as a commentator and contributor to Studio 360, WIRED, Vanity Fair, Slate, Salon, WNYC and the BBC. His first film, Layover, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival this year, and a feature film of his monologue If You See Something Say Something will be released next year. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press and his second book, a collected anthology of his monologues, will be published by TCG in the fall of 2010. He has been nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award, two Drama League Awards, and has been the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Circle Award, four Seattle Times Footlight Awards, the EST/Sloan Galileo Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship.

 

JEAN-MICHELE GREGORY(Director) works as a director, editor, and dramaturg, focusing on unscripted, extemporaneous theatrical works that live in the moment they are told. Working primarily with solo artists, for the last decade she has collaborated with monologist Mike Daisey, directing at venues across the globe including the Public Theater, the Barrow Street Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theater, Center Theater Group, the Under the Radar Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Chicago’s Museum for Contemporary Art, American Repertory Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Noorderzon Festival, Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Performance Space 122, the TBA Festival, and many more. She also works with New York storyteller Martin Dockery (Wanderlust, The Surprise) and the Seattle-based performer and writer Suzanne Morrison (Yoga Bitch, Your Own Personal Alcatraz). Her productions have received three Seattle Times Footlight Awards (21 Dog Years, The Ugly American, Monopoly!), the Bay Area Critics Circle Award (Great Men of Genius), and nominations from the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle (If You See Something Say Something).

 

PRODUCTION TEAM

SETH REISER (Lighting and Set Design)

 

 

Schedule

July 17 – August 5, 2012. Tuesday through Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm & 8pm, Sunday at 2pm.

Special performance dates:

• Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC): Tuesday, July 17th at 8pm
  Tickets sold at 6pm each evening, two per person, cash/check only. Lines begin forming around 5pm. Performances typically sell out.

Prices

Tickets start at $45. Subject to change.

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