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’ ...

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Ordinarily it’s in poor taste for a reviewer to indulge in a first-person narrative, but in the case of Annie Baker’s “Circle Mirror Transformation,” some background may be helpful. I was a student of ...

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 ...

Custom Made Theatre Co. (Brian Katz, Executive Artistic Director) opens its 23rd season with the Obie Award Winning "Circle Mirror Transformation" by Annie Baker. Associate Artistic Director Ciera Eis ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Play the game yourselves a few times,” said Kip Fagan, director of Circle Mirror Transformation, at a recent rehearsal. “In character?” asked an actor. “As yourselves,” he said. The game was one-word ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...