Southbank Theatre Company will stage Sophie Treadwell's expressionist drama MACHINAL, inspired by the real-life case of Ruth Snyder. The play explores themes of societal pressure and individual autonomy through a feminist lens.
Southbank Theatre Company has announced its 2025–2026 season, marking its fifth year of presenting bold, history-inspired theatre in Indianapolis. The season will feature three acclaimed mainstage works—Equivocation by Bill Cain, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and Machinal by Sophie Treadwell.
Machinal, presented by New York Theatre Company at New York City Center Stage II, will be professionally filmed on Friday, July 11 for inclusion in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at Lincoln Center.
New York Theatre Company has announced Queer Night at Machinal set for this week, presented in partnership with Ring of Keys. Learn more about the upcoming event here!
Machinal will extend its run at New York City Center Stage II through mid July. Learn more about Machine and see how to purchase tickets to the extended run here!
You can now get a first look at photos of New York Theatre Company's revival of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
New York Theatre Company will make its off-Broadway debut with a groundbreaking revival of Machinal by Sophie Treadwell at New York City Center Stage II. Learn more!
New York Theatre Company will present a workshop production of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal at the New York City Fringe. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
FRIGID New York will present the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks, wild project and the Chain Theatre. Learn more about the programming and see how to purchase tickets.
FRIGID New York will present the 2025 New York City Fringe Festival at UNDER St. Marks, wild project, and the Chain Theatre this April. Learn more about the festival here!
If the 2020s have occasionally uncomfortably reminded you of the 1920s, you’re not alone. Two Toronto theatre companies are currently using work from and about that turbulent decade to comment on present issues. At the Red Sandcastle, The Flare Productions presents Sophie Treadwell’s seminal work of feminist and Expressionist theatre, MACHINAL, a 1928 play very loosely based on the real-life story of Ruth Snyder, executed at Sing Sing Prison for the murder of her husband. At the Theatre Centre, Tall Poppy Productions presents a new work written and directed by Judy Reynolds, THE BEE’S KNEES, a fictional tale of one of the first women to run for Canadian parliament in the early 1920s.
EastLine Theatre will present their third annual Hispanic Heritage Month production at Westbury Arts with the rarely-produced play MACHINAL by Mexican-American playwright Sophie Treadwell, first seen on Broadway in 1928. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
FPCT announced the opening of MACHINAL on September 6, 2024. The production explores themes of societal pressure and personal freedom, offering a thought-provoking experience for theatergoers.
Recently, we had the chance to talk with Rosie Sheehy about taking on the role of Helen Jones, or “The Young Woman,” in Machinal. We discussed what compelled her to join this production, what it is like being a part of a work based on the real life of a woman and what she hopes audiences take away from the piece.
Given the emotional investment required on stage and in the stalls, one feels somewhat shortchanged by a production that invites sympathy for a character with few redeeming features
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The Old Vic and Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath have announced the London premiere of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, directed by Richard Jones (Endgame, The Hairy Ape) and starring The Stage 100 2024 Rising Star Rosie Sheehy (Oleanna, Romeo and Julie), in a limited run from 11 April-01 June 2024.
With the AI (artificial intelligence) summit at Bletchley Park this week, Machinal at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath, couldn’t be more timely.
Five-time Olivier Award winning director Richard Jones brings Sophie Treadwell’s extraordinary epic masterpiece Machinal, based on the true story of the committal and execution of Ruth Snyder, to the Ustinov Studio. Check out all new photos here!
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