The machines are coming for our livelihoods, Dear Readers. That was the fear a century ago with the 1923 play “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice. And that sentiment still holds true today with many ...
The Actors' Gang will present its production of the great American play, The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice's visionary classic from 1923 that warns of and satirizes the future we find ourselves currently ...
In “The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play,” pencil-pushing protagonist Mr. Zero — played in turns by everyone in the cast — endures layers of indignity, losing his job to a machine and getting ...
In 2006, Downtown gained a notable theatrical resident in Circus Theatricals, which relocated after seven years on the Westside. Now with a space in the refurbished Hayworth Theatre building, the ...
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Above, Tom Tomeo and Carla Reck, and at left, Donna Vojtek and Jarid Jopling, in Little ...
In Elmer Rice’s 1923 play “The Adding Machine,” an office drone is plunged into existential crisis when his accounting job is replaced by mechanical technology. A hundred years later, artificial ...