Elmer Rice's "The Adding Machine," an expressionist classic on automation and worker insecurity, speaks directly to an age in ...

The New Group will soon present The Adding Machine by Elmer L. Rice, with revisions by Thomas Bradshaw. Directed by Scott Elliott, this production features Sarita Choudhury, Michael Cyril Creighton, ...

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 ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Above, Tom Tomeo and Carla Reck, and at left, Donna Vojtek and Jarid Jopling, in Little ...

Mr. Zero is just another cog. He can’t fulfill his own needs, much less those of his wife Mrs. Zero, or his workwife Daisy. But when Mr. Zero’s boss replaces him with a machine, Mr. Zero lashes out ...