Woolly Mammoth’s Bold New Season Bets Big on the Unexpected
Predictable? Perish the thought.
For its 47th season, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is doubling down on the daring with five world-premiere and rolling-premiere productions that promise cosmic comedy, cutting satire, artificial intelligence, Shakespeare reimagined, and enough existential angst to keep Washington talking long after curtain call.
The 2026-27 lineup marks the first season curated by new Artistic Director Reggie D. White, whose inaugural slate stays true to Woolly’s reputation for fearless, conversation-starting theater while introducing five playwrights making their Woolly debuts.
“Each of these plays is a deepening of that sort of social experiment.. and what happens when 200 strangers stop being polite and start being real,” White explained in the 2026-27 season announcement.
The season blasts off in September with Venus, Steve Yockey’s darkly comic dating disaster in which romance spirals into obsession, paranoia, and a mysterious woman in a red raincoat. The holidays get hilariously hectic with Hanukkah Spectacular, Max Posner’s world premiere comedy about a group of artists desperately trying to create the next great Hanukkah hit… while barely holding themselves together.
Winter brings Ten Grand, Kate Cortesi’s heartfelt, high-stakes workplace drama set inside a Boston Goodwill, where discarded treasures (and discarded dreams) collide after one unexpected donation changes everything. Then comes Bobby Robotowitz, Matt Schatz’s timely comedy exploring creativity in the age of AI, as a struggling novelist discovers her chatbot may be doing far more than editing her prose.
Closing the season is love i awethu further, a.k. payne’s bold, lyrical reinvention of Julius Caesar, transforming Shakespeare’s political tragedy into a poetic meditation on freedom, resistance, and collective memory.
Even under new leadership in this upcoming season, Woolly continues to champion stories that challenge assumptions and provoke conversation, delivering the kind of plays that follow you well beyond the walk to the Metro.