Vandamm and Machinal: Posts from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center by Barbara Cohen-Stratyner

Machinal is back on Broadway.  Sophie Treadwell’s best known play is enjoying a successful revival at the Roundabout Theater.  Although a journalist, Treadwell used elements of experimental playwriting to show the central character stuck on the machinery that limited the lives of 1920s women.  Her choices doom her.  Go to see it if you can.Vandamm photographed the original 1928 production, a…

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