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WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE

641 D St NW
Washington, DC 20004


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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....

Review: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA at Woolly Mammoth Theatre


by David Friscic - July 22, 2024

Steeped in a European existential sensibility, with healthy doses of theatre of the absurd, and an eerie ambience, --performance artist Julia Masli alternately entrances and provokes the audience with her finely honed comedic skills in the deliciously interactive production entitled ha ha ha ha ha h...

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. ...

Past Shows

Rose: You Are Who You Eat
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
6/5 - 6/23/2024


Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ...

Amm(i)gone
Amm(i)gone
4/20 - 5/12/2024


Creator and performer Adil Mansoor invites his Pakistani mother to translate Antigone into Urdu as means of exploring the tensions between family and faith. Should ...

Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again


Composed of actual letters between renowned poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Dear Elizabeth intimately reimagines a correspondence between two of the greatest poets of ...

The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes


Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company presents the world premiere of Virginia-born playwright Vivian J.O. Barnes play that follows an HBCU dance team as they prepare for ...

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 ...

My Mama and 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 - 6/29/2023


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 ...

Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner


When Forbes Magazine declares Kylie Jenner a “self-made” billionaire, Cleo takes to Twitter to call out white women who co-opt and profit from Black culture. ...

Just For Us
Just For Us
11/19 - 12/23/2022


BY AND STARRING ALEX EDELMAN | DIRECTED BY ADAM BRACE JUST FOR US takes the audience through hilarious anecdotes from Alex Edelman’s life — his Olympian ...

Videos


Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS in Washington, DC Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 6/1) Tracker
Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood in Washington, DC Petite Rouge, A Cajun Red Riding Hood
Imagination Stage (12/11 - 2/8) Tracker
All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain in Washington, DC All the Devils are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain
STC's Klein Theatre (12/6 - 12/29) Tracker
Leopoldstadt in Washington, DC Leopoldstadt
Shakespeare Theatre Company (11/30 - 12/29) Tracker
Mother Goose in Washington, DC Mother Goose
Imagination Stage (3/1 - 4/13)
Sister Act in Washington, DC Sister Act
Ford's Theatre (3/14 - 5/17)
Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond in Washington, DC Rhythm India: Bollywood & Beyond
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (3/22 - 3/22)
Theater Terra: Rapunzel the Musical in Washington, DC Theater Terra: Rapunzel the Musical
Center for the Arts at George Mason University (4/6 - 4/6)
Leopoldstadt in Washington, DC Leopoldstadt
Harman Hall (11/30 - 12/29)
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