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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When four lost New Englanders enrolled in Marty’s community center drama class experiment with harmless games, hearts are quietly torn apart and tiny wars of epic proportions are waged and won. Annie ...

Annie Baker always assumed that “Circle Mirror Transformation” would be the play she’d written that would have the hardest time finding an audience. “It’s an elliptical fragment play with a lot of ...