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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 is a play by Annie Baker that explores human connection through a drama class at a community center in Shirley, Vermont. The story follows five strangers—Marty, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...