For anyone who studied the Theater of the Absurd back in college when the Theater of the Absurd was still being studied, you probably didn’t have Elmer L. Rice’s play “The Adding Machine” on your ...

3 ICYMI: Next On Stage: Season 5- Meet the Top 5 4 ICYMI: Meet the Next On Stage: Season 6 Finalists New Century Theatre Company (NCTC), Seattle’s newest professional theater, is gearing up for its ...

Mr. Zero is just another cog. He can’t fulfill his own needs, much less those of his wife Mrs. Zero, or his workwife Daisy. But when Mr. Zero’s boss replaces him with a machine, Mr. Zero lashes out ...

Glenday, the freelance critic for a blog called Musical Theatre Review, is all about those off-West End plays. In fact, he liked "Adding Machine" so much, he saw it twice. Loewith, who traveled with ...

The best of so-called “classic” literature surprises with its freshness: Tolstoy was a gossip, Melville was funny. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine was written in 1923, but there’s nothing dated about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a good time for Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine," which can only mean that it’s once again a bad time for workers. I ...

This 90-minute adaptation of Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist masterpiece tells the story of Mr. Zero, a cog in the great machine of American business. His journey through life, death and romance in ...

Benoit and Schmoll in “Adding Machine: A Musical” There’s a cliché out there that an opening number can make or break a show. Unfortunately, the first song in Adding Machine: A Musical, now being ...