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,” ...

Southbank has revealed its third production of Season 5: Machinal, Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist drama, running Thursday-Sunday, March 12-22, with Saturday matinees at 4:00 PM. Inspired by the ...

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One of the most thrilling shows on Broadway is about a woman who kills her husband in cold blood. That would pack in the tourists . . . if we were talking about “Chicago.” Sophie Treadwell’s “Machinal ...

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 ...

This past weekend, the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’s Sock & Buskin group staged its last performance of the play “Machinal.” The show ran from Oct. 30 to Nov. 9 in the Stuart ...

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, ...

Inspired by the infamous 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal tells the story of a Young Woman who works as a stenographer in the industrial, male-dominated world of the 1920s. She finds her ...

After getting some professional experience working on an expressionist play, North Central theater students are bringing their newfound knowledge back to Naperville. North Central College’s theater ...

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