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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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Written by Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation is an absorbing and intimate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

"Circle Mirror Transformation," the best-known play to date by hot scribe Annie Baker, is less than ideally served in its debut at South Coast Rep. We’re treated to a series of Godardian quick cuts ...

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 ...