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Norris's provocative piece should have the dramatic firepower to fill Woolly's 265-seat theater again.

Woolly Mammoth's hit play 'Clybourne Park' to return in summer 2011 Peter Marks 2010

The show will be remounted on Woolly's stage, just off the corner of Seventh and D streets NW, beginning on July 21 and running through Aug. 14, with the entire original eight-member cast reprising its roles.

Woolly Mammoth's hit play 'Clybourne Park' to return in summer 2011 Peter Marks 2010

The New York production, at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons -- produced concurrently with Woolly's -- received stellar notices, and a London version this fall at the highly regarded Royal Court Theatre proved so successful that plans have been announced to move it for a commercial run in the city's West End. Few Washington stage productions get anything like a long life because of the time constraints attending the presentation of a full roster of plays.

Woolly Mammoth's hit play 'Clybourne Park' to return in summer 2011 Peter Marks 2010

"We either had to get a dumpster, or a canister," says Jeffrey Herrmann, Woolly's managing director.

Woolly Mammoth's hit play 'Clybourne Park' to return in summer 2011 Peter Marks 2010

In case you're thinking this means Woolly's offerings will now be more consistently political, Shalwitz notes that the coming season is all about sex.

Backstage: Woolly Mammoth seeks to connect with audience; Open Circle on hiatus 2010

Second City's "Barack Stars: The Wrath of Rahm" previously did two stints at Woolly, and on the heels of that success, "Girl's Guide" has according to a press release racked up the highest advance sales in Woolly's history.

'Girl's Guide': Politics without punch Celia Wren 2010

(Woolly's prices, according to the theater's Web site, range from a low of $27 during a preview week to a high of $62 during a regular run.)

Backstage: Woolly Mammoth seeks to connect with audience; Open Circle on hiatus 2010

Woolly's sold-out one-night-only performance of the "Theater of War" program will be followed by a town hall talk featuring representatives of such organizations as the National Naval Medical Center and Wounded Warriors.

Bringing ancient war drama to the modern military 2010

This new concept of audience building doesn't mean he'll start choosing different sorts of plays that don't mesh with Woolly's long-standing taste for outrageous tragicomedies.

Backstage: Woolly Mammoth seeks to connect with audience; Open Circle on hiatus 2010

Herrmann calls the changes to Woolly's marketing process "a subtle adjustment as opposed to a radical tack."

Backstage: Woolly Mammoth seeks to connect with audience; Open Circle on hiatus 2010