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’ ...

When four lost New Englanders who enroll in Marty’s six-week-long community-center drama class begin to experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart, and tiny wars of epic proportions ...

For an actor to play an actor rehearsing a play within a play... that particular part probably has to be one of the biggest self-examination pieces you can find. Its not really... For an actor to play ...

Art is a metaphor for life, and art is life, and so on. All those time-honored statements are true, but Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation deftly sidesteps cliché to... Art is a metaphor for ...

"Circle Mirror Transformation," the first of a three−play series by Annie Baker, is an unusual play that manages to invoke in the audience the same feelings of uneasiness and nervous expectation ...

Circle Mirror Transformation explores the nuances of personal transformation through a community education class in a small Vermont town. Directed by Dean Bryant, the play delves into the lives of ...

Works of fiction — dramatic or otherwise — can usually be boiled down to stories of protagonists who want something. In the case of "Circle Mirror Transformation," which opened at Theatre Intime last ...

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 ...

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 ...

Annie Baker’s “Circle Mirror Transformation” is the first show to open at Studio Theatre since Joy Zinoman, the force of nature who founded the institution in the 1970s and served as its artistic ...

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 ...