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’ ...

Circle Mirror Transformation: Comedy. By Annie Baker. Directed by Kip Fagan. Through Aug. 26. Marin Theatre Company, 397 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. One hour, 50 ...

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 ...

It sounds like a silly gimmick for a play saggy with sentiment and predictability. Tell the stories of five Vermonters, ranging in age from 16 to late maturity, through a series of scenes from six ...

Plato, that old Greek, said that you could discover more about person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Walk into a theater class - at a hoity-toity professional theater, in a college ...

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 ...

Theater is play, pretend, make-believe. Sometimes that’s the only way to get to the truth. Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winning presents a group of beginners awkwardly, perhaps bravely, building what we ...

In the author's note to her play Circle Mirror Transformation, playwright Annie Baker writes, "I hope that you will portray these characters with compassion. They are not fools." American Theatre ...

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." ...