Machinal, now opened in a stunning production at the American Airlines Theater, is the first Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell’s haunting 1928 play, inspired by the murder trial of housewife Ruth Snyder, who enlisted a corset salesman to do in her husband. The crime shocked the nation: 180 reporters covered her trial; the case also […]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:11PM on January 16, 2014