The headline said "DEAD!" " but the play is getting a new life. "Machinal," journalist/playwright Sophie Treadwell's 1928 drama loosely based on the real-life husband killer Ruth Snyder, will have its first Broadway revival starting Friday " a perfect time for a stylized tale of dependency and dehumanization in a male-dominated, mechanized world.
SOURCE: New York Daily News at 02:00AM on December 20, 2013