Elmer Rice

The Glendale Community College Theatre Arts Department earned an invite from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region VIII, to re-stage a scene from the college’s spring 2010 production of “Little Shop of Horrors”...

The Glendale Community College Theatre Arts Department will present the Elmer Rice play, “Two on an Island,” opening at 8 p.m. March 31 in the Auditorium Mainstage Theatre. Melissa R. Randel directs the production, set in the late 1930s and...

The following marriage licenses were issued in December in Washington County: Luis Eduardo Chuy Morales, 33, of Silver Spring, Md., and Dawn Ranae Neville, 24, of Hagerstown Clifton Lynn Barnhart II, 26, and Tracy Jean Barnes, 26, both of Hagerstown...

It’s difficult to imagine a more chimerical challenge than adapting Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist play, “The Adding Machine,” as a chamber musical. Not only does Rice’s tragicomic tale of a working-man-turned-murderer have its fair share of...

David Cromer does not run one of Chicago's many famous theaters. A blunt perfectionist with an inclination toward the irascible, he's definitely not known for his skill at the schmooze. And, at 44, he's a bit too long in the tooth for such labels as...

It could all have been scripted by Mel Brooks. An ambitious but relentlessly arty and intellectual little theater company from Evanston comes up with the notion of turning Elmer Rice's 1923 thudding expressionistic drama "The Adding Machine" into (wait...

A telling ache underpins the daft invention of "Quixotic" at the Powerhouse Theatre. Kit Steinkellner's tragicomic fable about an insurance drone possessed by Cervantes' deluded knight errant keeps one fancifully trenchant finger on the downsized national...

Vincent Sherman, who directed Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn during their 1940s heyday at Warner Bros. and was one of the last surviving studio-era contract directors, has died. He was 99. Sherman died Sunday night of natural causes at...