Originally penned in 1923, The Adding Machine explores themes of alienation and the dehumanizing effects of modern technology. The narrative follows Mr. Zero, a man who feels like just another cog in ...

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 ...

The first line of "Adding Machine: A Musical" asserts, "In numbers, all truth can be revealed." While the play does more to alter the audience's perception of how the world works than to actually ...

A searing, surrealist punch of a play is coming to Toronto Fringe like you've never seen it before. In a daring, site-specific production staged in the historic Burroughs Building, Elmer Rice's 1923 ...

The Feast theater company is set to stage Elmer Rice’s 1923 play The Adding Machine in a new production titled The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Morality Play. The show began performances on September 12th ...

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 ...

Mr. Zero–the misogynist, racist antihero of Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist classic–spends 25 years totaling figures for a nameless company only to be replaced by a machine. Driven to homicide, he’s ...

Numbers orbit eerily through "Adding Machine: A Musical," the New York and Chicago hit that makes its D.C. debut at Studio Theatre starting Wednesday. Adapted from ...