If Theodore Dreiser had been a woman and that woman wrote the novel “An American Tragedy” as a play, you’d have Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 drama, “Machinal.” Or something very much like it. “Machinal,” ...

2014 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Sound Design in a Play Matt Tierney 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Actress in a Play Rebecca Hall 2014 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Director ...

‘How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free!’ From the outside, Helen Jones and her husband had a ‘happy marriage’.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Machinal at Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath (Foteini Christofilopoulou) When Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play, opened at ...

Machinal opens in a loud and lairy 1920s office. Overlapping conversations about sex and romance are given a staccato rhythm by the clack and ding of a dozen typewriters. The question on everyone’s ...

Sophie Treadwell’s “Machinal” has been acclaimed by critics as amasterpiece of expressionistic theater, but audiences have nevermuch cared for it. Even in its much-acclaimed 1928 Broadwaypremiere, ...

There are surprisingly few genre plays on the West End stage – where are all the science fiction and fantasy and horror and gangster stories that dominate other areas of pop culture? And where is all ...

Though Sophie Treadwell didn’t call for it in the text, the superb Roundabout revival of her 1928 play Machinal begins, quite fittingly, with a machine. In very dim light, we perceive a subway car ...

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When Rebecca Hall read it she couldn’t breathe. After Fiona Shaw played the role she got letters full of loneliness. This is the true story behind Sophie Treadwell’s trailblazing play In 1927, Ruth ...

When Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 play, opened at the Theatre Royal Bath's Ustinov Studio in late October last year, it was showered with praise, being described ...