Sophie Treadwell’s 1928 play is reimagined in this collaboration between Ballet RI and University of Rhode Island.

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,” ...

"Machinal," based on a play about a woman pushed to the breaking point, makes its world premiere in May with performances in ...

Five-time Olivier Award winning director Richard Jones brings Sophie Treadwell’s extraordinary epic masterpiece, based on the true story of the committal and execution of Ruth Snyder, to the Ustinov ...

Sophie Treadwell’s searing 1928 play, a landmark of American expressionism, is reborn in this striking new ballet. Machinal ...

In a world that demands silence, she moves. A striking adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's landmark 1928 expressionist stageplay, Ballet Rhode Island will present the world premiere of a new ballet, ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...