MACHINAL: A DANCE OF DEFIANCE World Premiere to be Presented at Ballet Rhode Island
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 8, 2026
Ballet Rhode Island will present the world premiere of Machinal: A DANCE OF DEFIANCE, the first ballet adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's 1928 expressionist play, running May 7–10 in Providence and May 14–17 in Kingston, RI.
Southbank Theatre Company to Present MACHINAL By Sophie Treadwell
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 17, 2026
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.
Photos: MACHINAL at NY City Center First Look
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 16, 2025
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.
Photo Flash: Main Street Theater Presents A NUMBER And MACHINAL
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 29, 2010
Main Street Theater presents an evening of two plays by groundbreaking women playwrights: an adaptation of Sophie Treadwell's impassioned play, Machinal followed by Caryl Churchill's chilling one-act, A Number.
Photo Flash: The Hairy Ape At The Goodman Theater
by Gabrielle Sierra - Feb 11, 2009
The Hairy Ape follows the saga of Yank, a maritime laborer who questions his place in society when branded as 'a filthy beast' by the rich daughter of a steel industrialist. In a series of eight scenes, O'Neill chronicles Yank's struggle with 'the human condition,' caught somewhere between his own primitive nature and the more intellectually based-and emotionally vacant-upper classes. Rejected by the bourgeois of Fifth Avenue as well as his fellow workers, Yank finally seeks solace from the only creature with whom he finds kinship: an ape in the Central Park Zoo. The Provincetown Players premiered The Hairy Ape, O'Neill's sixth play, in March 1922 under the direction of frequent O'Neill collaborator Robert Edmond Jones. That production, featuring Louis Wolheim's powerful performance as Yank, moved that April to Broadway's Plymouth Theatre. In 1944, a film version of the play featured William Bendix and in the ensuing decades the play has received dozens of notable revivals around the country; perhaps the most celebrated of these was The Wooster Group's 1996 production, featuring Willem Dafoe as Yank.
Photo Flash: Masha Obolensky's NOT ENOUGH AIR
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 29, 2009
TimeLine Theatre Company announces the world premiere of Not Enough Air by Masha Obolensky. The play, directed by Nick Bowling, runs through March 22, 2009 at TimeLine Theatre, 615 W. Wellington Ave., Chicago. To purchase tickets, visit timelinetheatre.com or call 773.281.TIME (8463).
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