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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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 ...

What a lark! What a plunge!” thinks Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway as she steps exuberantly into her day, and that’s pretty much what I felt walking out of Curious Theatre after Annie Baker’s Circle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Circle Mirror Transformation” is not for everybody. Annie Baker’s Obie-winning play, which opened Friday at South Coast Repertory, is a brave and delicate tragicomedy that has more in common with the ...

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." ...

Annie Baker’s play about an amateur drama class in rural Vermont is a clever look at the way people reveal themselves while doing incomprehensible exercises that purport to teach acting. It’s easy to ...

Running time: 1 hr., 40 min. I've always been wary of novels about writers or plays about doing theatre: I'm all for writing what you know, but the choice seems to have an edge of self-indulgence ...