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’ ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the author's note to her play Circle Mirror Transformation, playwright ...

Pictured with her back to the foreground is Nancy Boykin, then, from left, Emilie Krause, David Bardeen, Kim Carson, and Bob Weick, in Theatre Horizon's production of "Circle Mirror Transformation." ...

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 ...

The characters in "Circle Mirror Transformation" all have issues. But a few of the actors creating them for The Studio Players can outdo the people they're playing. Les Williams, who plays the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Circle Mirror Transformation, now being mounted by the Custom Made Theatre Company, is the third major Bay Area presentation of Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker's work in the past few years–following ...

American playwright Annie Baker’s 2009 off-Broadway “drama class” play is set in a windowless dance studio, so the Royal Court has got its own off-piste location spot on: a cheerless community centre ...