One. Two. A pause. Three. A longer pause. Four! Start again. The show begins in medias res, with the four students and their teacher, Marty (Alexandra Lewis, A&S ’14), lying on the wood floor of an ...

GHENT, N.Y. — The physical setting for Annie Baker's smartly crafted “Circle Mirror Transformation” at Ghent Playhouse is simplicity itself — a generally unadorned windowless studio in a community ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In this work by Pulitzer Prize winner, MacArthur fellow, and Amherst native Annie ...

CHESTER — “I just hope that you all feel, um, safe here. And open. And willing to go with it,” an instructor tells her four adult students on the first day of a creative drama class in the community ...

One of the most awkward, fascinating places to be is a community theater class, where small moments of silence and seemingly-silly acting exercises combine to bring people together. Duke Players’ ...

Foster Davis, Christian Tannous, Tracy Ahern, Callina Anderson, and Anna Flynn in Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation. Credit: Photo by Jeff McMorrough At one point in Annie Baker’s 2009 play ...

MILWAUKEE - Circle Mirror Transformation is a story of four lost New Englanders enrolling in a community center drama class to experiment with theater games and try to find meaning in their lives. And ...

If you have never been to an acting class, you may not know that they always seem to have these ridiculous exercises that are supposed to help you become “an actor.” Gibberish conversations, mirroring ...

With humor and compassion, Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation" dramatizes a challenging dilemma of being human. We want to connect with other people, but to do so, we have to let our guard ...

The games people play to open themselves up in acting class can sure look idiotic. Practicing greeting rituals, chanting nonsense words, embodying inanimate objects, the participants often seem ...

Actors Theatre is wrapping up its 25th season with “Circle Mirror Transformation,” currently running at Herberger Theater Center. The show follows five characters as they spend time together in a ...