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FILTER RESULTS ►Mike Daisey Wants To Buy The Guy Who Threw The Cell Phone A Drink
With the world still divided over whether it's okay to grab a disruptive theatergoer's cell phone and smash it, we turn to monologist Mike Daisey, whose electrifying performances tend to make you feel less like a spectator and more like a quiet intellectual participant. Show More Summary
Uncandid Camera
This video, understandably, went viral last week: As you might have guessed, the video was probably staged. David Haglund asks: [I]s such fakery OK? A year ago, after Mike Daisey’s fabrications in a This American Life story about Apple factories in China came to light, we examined how much lying people are generally willing to accept from various kinds of storytellers. (See […]
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I have mixed feelings about Mike Daisey at this awkward moment in his career:
Daisey is recalibrating. His observations seemed...Show More Summary
Lying clown Mike Daisey is premiering his new monologue in Portland.
Lying clown Mike Daisey is premiering his new monologue in Portland. It's called "Journalism." Read more...
Reviewed: American Utopias at Woolly Mammoth
In "American Utopias," a one-man's musings on everything from Disney to Occupy Wall Street, Mike Daisey uses his rare talent of sculpting funny tales out of acute self-awareness and discomfort to create a work of impermanent delight. one-man musings on everything from Burning Man to the Occupy Wall Street movement, is a work of impermanent delight. [ more › ]
Do Satori Group's "Microdramas" count as theater? Does it matter?
Theater people can be as conservative and provincial as the Tea Party when it comes to defending the borders of what counts as "theater." I know a couple of playwrights who argue that solo shows, such as Mike Daisey's or Jennifer Jasper's or Itai Erdal's don't count as theater. Show More Summary
What's going on Tuesday?
Natureboy @ Union Pool, 9/22/2012 (more by Jessica Amaya) Greys today in NYC Mike Daisey @ Joe's Pub Soulive @ Brooklyn Bowl Zach Pruitt @ The Stone Travis Reuter @ The Stone Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes Ben Holmes Quartet...
What's going on Tuesday?
Kendrick Lamar @ T5, Sept. 2012 (more by Julie Schabel) Bob Mould at Williamsburg Park, 9/7/2012 (more by Sachyn Mital) today in NYC Mike Daisey @ Joe's Pub Comic Book Club @ Fontana's David Rogue @ Joe's Pub...
Alex Lyras Talks About Performing a Solo Show About iPhones That Created a Scandal for Its Original Author, Mike Daisey
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It did not take Alex Lyras long to realize that there was something uniquely different about performing Mike Daisey's solo play The Agony and Ecstasy of S...
Mike Daisey says his 'Steve Jobs' episode has done some good
Since the revision of his 'The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' the monologuist says it's played some part in bettering conditions in China. Is the ecstasy and agony of Mike Daisey finally over?
Chinese Artist Goes Undercover at Foxconn … to Buy an iPad
Chinese artist Li Liao's latest project is equal parts conceptual and journalistic. He did something Mike Daisey never quite accomplished: Li got a job at one of the Foxconn plants in Shenzhen that manufacturers most of Apple's products and worked there for 45 days, undercover, inspecting circuit boards. With the wages he earned, he bought the product of his labor — an iPad.
Mike Daisey Tackles Ayn Rand
Mike Daisey, the theater monologist who made news headlines last year when it was revealed that some of the incidents in his show “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” had been fictionalized, is back with another topical show about Ayn Rand.
What's going on Thursday?
Here We Go Magic @ Brooklyn Bowl, 9/18/2012 (more by Sarah Gainer) today in NYC Trews @ Maxwell's Lady Rizo @ Joe's Pub MS MR @ Mercury Lounge Mike Daisey @ Joe's Pub Shreddie Mercury @...
What's going on Wednesday?
Jessie Ware at The Box, Dec. 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Soundgarden at Irving Plaza, Nov. 2012 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) today in NYC Lady Rizo @ Joe's Pub Brian Settles @ Barbes Mike Daisey @ Joe's Pub...
What's going on Tuesday?
The Mountain Goats @ Vic Theatre, Chicago, October 2012 (more by Sara Pieper) today in NYC Sherita @ Barbes Mike Daisey @ Joe's Pub Jack Quartet @ The Stone Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes Jake Bugg...
How International Pressure Can Change Chinese Factories
The year kicked off with Mike Daisey's controversial monologue lambasting labor conditions in Chinese factories making Apple products. But it has ended with actual change in an altogether different industry but who too were accused of unethical practices in their Chinese factories. Show More Summary
Have a Very "Tony Kushner, Louis CK, Moby-Dick, Vampire" Weekend
So Josh Foer, Tony Kushner and Mike Daisey go to prison, an endless purgatory of Moby-Dick, Louis CK on Staten Island, Vampire Weekend headlines the St. Ann's benefit and many other jokes for your weekend. --- See more posts by Choire Sicha 0 comments
Can You Take Fact Checking Too Far?
Earlier this year, there was a lot of attention paid to the popular radio program This American Life (TAL) having to retract its episode based on storyteller Mike Daisey's one-man show, in which he claimed to be telling a story about his own trip to visit Apple factories in China, but which it later came out was partially fabricated. Show More Summary
A view of Occupy Wall Street, Disney and the desert through eyes of Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak. In "American Utopias," the neo-Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Daisey even takes on the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt Disney World. "It looks like a 1950s game show threw up on itself,"," he observes, puckishly. Show More Summary
‘This American Life’ and the David Sedaris ‘problem’
Ira Glass was asked in his Reddit Q-and-A if there was a policy change at “This American Life” after Mike Daisey’s piece was retracted. He said the radio show “used to fact check the way they do on the daily NPR news shows,” which is having “editors and reporters consult about questionable facts, rundown stuff … Read More
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