How Theater Failed America January 7, 2009

Created & performed by MIKE DAISEY. Directed by Jean-Michele Gregory.

Mike Daisey returns to Woolly Mammoth following his sold-out run of
If you See Something Say Something.

Mike Daisey sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to “successful” working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we’re making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we’re speaking to.

"A sardonic rebuke to the corporate types who hold American theater hostage...a powerful sense of the wonder of theater. A REMARKABLE PERFORMER." – The New York Times

"Blending political anger with striking personal stories, this piece should reach anyone who believes in live performance." – Variety

Wed-Sat 8pm, Sun 2 & 7pm.

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