Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine," an expressionist classic on automation and worker insecurity, speaks directly to an age in which livelihoods are threatened by AI innovation.

The machines are coming for our livelihoods, Dear Readers. That was the fear a century ago with the 1923 play “The Adding Machine” by Elmer Rice. And that sentiment still holds true today with many ...

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 ...

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 ...

This small stylus-operated non-printing adding machine has seven chains in parallel columns. The links visible in each column are numbered from 1 to 9. A stylus is placed in a link of the chain and ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2006, Downtown gained a notable theatrical resident in Circus Theatricals, which relocated after seven years on the Westside. Now with a space in the refurbished Hayworth Theatre building, the ...