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 ...

Zero loses their job to a machine, so they kill their boss. They are then sent on a hallucinatory journey through internet culture, the legal system, the underworld, and the future as they struggle to ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 Elmer Rice’s 1923 play “The Adding Machine,” an office drone is plunged into existential crisis when his accounting job is replaced by mechanical technology. A hundred years later, artificial ...