For anyone who studied the Theater of the Absurd back in college when the Theater of the Absurd was still being studied, you probably didn’t have Elmer L. Rice’s play “The Adding Machine” on your ...

In the final scene of the play, Mr. Zero learns, to his consternation, that reincarnation is nothing but a series of repetitions. Life is reproduced almost like a series of carbon copies, with ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s a good time for Elmer Rice’s “The Adding Machine," which can only mean that it’s once again a bad time for workers. I ...

The Actors' Gang will present its production of the great American play, The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice's visionary classic from 1923 that warns of and satirizes the future we find ourselves currently ...