Actress, comedian, and songwriter Riki Lindhome (Wednesday, Garfunkel and Oates) returns to Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company for a special limited engagement of her deeply funny, deeply personal musical Dead Inside, October 13–18, including performances filmed for her new special on October 16 and 17. Part musical, part solo stand-up spiral, Dead Inside pulls back the speculum on Lindhome’s real-life fertility journey — hormone shots, invasive tests, monthly disappointment, and navigating a culture that still expects women to smile through it all. Equal parts hilarious and candid, Dead Inside transforms the often-isolating experience of infertility into a wildly entertaining night of theater. Following its sold-out engagement at Woolly Mammoth in 2025, Lindhome returns to the theater for this very special limited run before Dead Inside is captured on film. Audiences attending the October 16 and 17 performances will have the opportunity to be part of the filming. “We’re thrilled to welcome Dead Inside and Riki Lindhome back to Woolly Mammoth for this extraordinary moment. Riki is a brilliant artist, and this fearless, yet hilarious piece showcases so many of her multi-faceted talents. DC audiences fell in love with this project last year and to have cameras in our house to capture the magic and the music of Dead Inside for a global audience is a tremendous honor.”— Reggie D. White, Artistic Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company “I absolutely loved doing Dead Inside at Woolly Mammoth. The audiences were amazing, the theater felt like the perfect home for the show, and I’m so happy I get to come back and do it again.”— Riki Lindhome The return of Dead Inside marks another opportunity for Woolly Mammoth audiences to experience Lindhome’s singular blend of comedy, music, storytelling, and theatricality — and to be part of the next chapter of the show as it makes its way to the screen. Dead Inside runs October 13 – 18 at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D Street NW, Washington, DC. Performances are Tuesday – Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM and 5 PM. Filming takes place during performances on October 16 and 17. TICKETS Single tickets start at $62. All Single Tickets are available at woollymammoth.net, by phone at 202-393-3939, and via email at [email protected]. Woolly Mammoth also offers Pick Your Price tickets, where patrons pick the price they want to pay, starting at $20. Twenty (20) Pay-What-You-Will tickets are also available to every single performance online or in-person — ten (10) tickets are available in advance, ten (10) tickets are available on the day of the show. ABOUT RIKI LINDHOME Riki Lindhome is an actress, comedian, and songwriter known for her work in television, film, and music. She currently stars in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe and is widely known for her work as one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, as well as roles in Wednesday, Knives Out, The Big Bang Theory, and Gilmore Girls.  ABOUT WOOLLY MAMMOTH THEATRE COMPANY The Tony Award-winning Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates badass theater that highlights the stunning, challenging, and tremendous complexity of our world. For over 40 years, Woolly has maintained a high standard of artistic rigor while simultaneously daring to take risks, innovate, and push beyond perceived boundaries. One of the few remaining theatres in the country to maintain a company of artists, Woolly serves an essential research and development role within the American theater. Plays premiered at Woolly have gone on to productions at hundreds of theaters all over the world and have had lasting impacts on the field.  Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is led by Artistic Director Reggie D. White and Managing Director Kimberly E. Douglas. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is located in Washington, DC, equidistant from the Capitol and the White House. This unique location influences Woolly’s investment in actively working towards an equitable, participatory, and creative democracy. Woolly Mammoth stands upon occupied, unceded territory: the ancestral homeland of the Nacotchtank whose descendants belong to the Piscataway peoples. Furthermore, the foundation of this city, and most of the original buildings in Washington, DC, were funded by the sale of enslaved people of African descent and built by their hands. SEE ALSO:‘Dead Inside’ at Woolly is funny as hell and breathtakingly personal (review by Gregory Ford, July 22, 2026) ...read more read less