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 ...
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 ...
Zero loses their job to a machine, so they kill their boss. They are then sent on a hallucinatory journey through internet culture, the legal system, the underworld, and the future as they struggle to ...
When tech companies began announcing advanced artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, there was widespread enthusiasm. AI was going to make mundane jobs more efficient; it was going to reshape ...
Tuner “The Adding Machine” scored six noms for the Lucille Lortel Awards, the most of any musicals in the Off Broadway kudos that kick off the legit awards season. “Adding Machine,” a well-reviewed ...
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 ...
The New Group has revealed the lineup for their first season in their new home at The Theater at St. Clements. After decades of being itinerant, the Tony-winning company is putting down roots at the ...
Is there a knowledgeable audience out there for Elmer Rice's 1923 masterpiece of American Expressionism, "The Adding Machine?" If so, then these bright bulbs should immediately line up to see this ...
When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27; through Nov. 1 Info: $57 to $71; 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org Forgive me, but one of the funniest things about ...