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The letter records Rice's impressions of the country and people, including a May Day celebration, visits to museums and art exhibits and to the theatre, meetings with writers and correspondents, and other incidents.
- Rice, Elmer, 1892-1967.
- 1 folder (SC)
- 1932, 1951
- Elmer Rice Letters
- The Adding Machine
- Elmer Rice
- Adding Machine: A Musical—Composition and Performance
- Political Involvement—The Federal Theatre Project
- The Adding Machine and Expressionism
By Joshua Schmidt & Jason Loewith Over the course of the season, our assistant directors and student dramaturgs will be compiling dramaturgical resources relating to each production as it develops. Below are some links to websites which relate to the history of the play, the biography of the playwright, and sites that contextualize and, we hope, sh...
Early life Elmer Rice, writer of The Adding Machine, the play from which Adding Machine: A Musical is adapted was born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein on September 28, 1892 in New York City. Rice’s father, Jacob Reizenstein, worked as a bookkeeper and traveling salesman, but his ability to work was severely limited by his epilepsy. The financial setbacks...
Joshua Schmidt (Composer/Co-librettist) Joshua Schmidt is a Milwaukee-based composer/sound designer. Schmidt believes Adding Machine “to be a romantic comedy, a very, very dark romantic comedy the explores one simple question: What is a life worth living.” His other works include A Minister’s Wife, which received six Joseph Jefferson Award nominati...
For a short time (1935-1936), Rice was director of the Federal Theatre Project, a branch of the Works Progress Administrationwhose aim was to provide work for unemployed professional actors and other theatre artists during the Great Depression. Rice proposed that theatres in a hundred communities across the country be remodeled and modernized with ...
The Adding Machine is regarded as an “expressionist” play. Expressionist theatre, according to critic J.L. Styan, “was a dramatization of the subconscious, a kind of scripted dream.” In Expressionist plays, characters [react] against a comfortable, unthinking, uncaring and increasingly mechanized society… Characters are trapped inside a distorted v...
October 1935 was also the time for the first meeting of the regional and state directors, held in the old McLean mansion on Dupont Circle: for vaudeville and variety, Eddie Dowling, Broadway actor-producer; for New England, Charles Coburn, actor-director; for New York, Elmer Rice, Broadway playwright-producer, assisted by Philip Barber ...
Rice was active in the WPA Federal Theatre Project for a short time in the mid-1930s. He also championed the American Civil Liberties Union and the cause of free speech, and in the 1950s he was an opponent of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.
Rice was active in the WPA Federal Theatre Project for a short time in the mid-1930s. He also championed the American Civil Liberties Union and the cause of free speech, and in the 1950s he was an opponent of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy.
Rice was active in the WPA Federal Theatre Project for a short time in the mid-1930s. He also championed the American Civil Liberties Union and the cause of free speech, and in the 1950s he was an opponent of U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy .
See Naples and Die Playbill. 4p.: 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. | From Federal Theatre Project Collection (Production Records, Playbills File, 1934-1939). Collection of over 2,000 programs, heralds, handbills, and other announcements of FTP... Contributor: Duvey, Eliot - Rice, Elmer
