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Machinal, the Glossary

Machinal is a 1928 play by American playwright and journalist Sophie Treadwell, inspired by the real-life case of convicted and executed murderer Ruth Snyder.^[1]

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1928 plays
Expressionist plays
Plays by Sophie Treadwell

Almeida Theatre

The Almeida Theatre is a 325-seat producing house located on Almeida Street off Upper Street in the London Borough of Islington.

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Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.

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Arthur Hopkins

Arthur Hopkins (October 4, 1878 – March 22, 1950) was an American Broadway theatre producer in the early twentieth century.

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The BFI Film & TV Database (ftvdb) is an online database created by the British Film Institute containing information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media, from the UK.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is generally the spelling for this common noun in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many of the extant or closed Broadway venues use or used the spelling Theatre as the proper noun in their names.

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Brooks Atkinson

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic.

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Burns Mantle

Robert Burns Mantle (December 23, 1873February 9, 1948) was an American theater critic and screenwriter.

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Ciarán Hinds

Ciarán Hinds (born 9 February 1953) is an actor from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Clark Gable

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901November 16, 1960) was an American film actor.

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Dodd, Mead & Co.

Dodd, Mead and Company was one of the pioneer publishing houses of the United States, based in New York City.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.

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Electric chair

The electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution.

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Es Devlin

Esmeralda Devlin (born 24 September 1971) is an English artist and stage designer who works in a range of media, often mapping light and projected film onto kinetic sculptural forms.

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Expressionism (theatre)

Expressionism was a movement in drama and theatre that principally developed in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Fiona Shaw

Fiona Shaw (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress.

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Gene Frankel

Eugene V. Frankel (December 23, 1919 – April 20, 2005) was an American actor, theater director, and acting teacher especially notable in the founding of the off-Broadway scene.

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Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Gerald Stuart O'Loughlin Jr. (December 23, 1921 – July 31, 2015) was an American television, stage, and film actor and director who was primarily known for playing tough-talking and rough-looking characters.

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Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre

The Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, formerly the Plymouth Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 236 West 45th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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Hal K. Dawson

Hal K. Dawson (October 17, 1896 – February 17, 1987) was an American actor.

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Ian MacNeil (scenic designer)

Ian MacNeil (born 1960) is a British-based scenic designer.

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Internet Broadway Database

The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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Jack Gould

John Ludlow Gould (February 5, 1914 – May 24, 1993) was an American journalist and critic, who wrote commentary about television.

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Jean Adair

Jean Adair (born Violet McNaughton; June 13, 1873 – May 11, 1953) was a Canadian actress.

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Joan Lorring

Joan Lorring (born Madeline Ellis; April 17, 1926 – May 30, 2014) was an American actress and singer known for her work in film and theatre.

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Joanna Dunham

Joanna Elizabeth Dunham (6 May 1936 – 25 November 2014) was an English actress, best noted for her work on stage and television.

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Jodie Markell

Jodie Markell (born April 13, 1959) is an American actress and film director.

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John Gromada

John Gromada (born February 22, 1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer.

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John Woodvine

John Woodvine (born 21 July 1929) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.

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Laurence Olivier Awards

The Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply The Olivier Awards, are presented annually by the Society of London Theatre to recognise excellence in professional theatre in London.

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Lee Watson

Leland H. "Lee" Watson (1926 – December 8, 1989)7 was a Broadway and television lighting designer and theatre educator.

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Malcolm Lee Beggs

Malcolm Lee Beggs (1907 – December 10, 1956) was an American stage, television and film actor.

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Marge Redmond

Marjorie Redmond (December 14, 1924 – February 10, 2020) was an American actress and singer.

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Michael Billington (critic)

Michael Keith Billington (born 16 November 1939) is a British author and arts critic.

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Michael Cumpsty

Michael Cumpsty is a British actor.

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Michael Greif

Michael Greif (born ca. 1959 in Brooklyn, New YorkWelsh, Anne Marie, "New York and family call Michael Greif home", The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 10, 1999, p.E-1) is an American stage director.

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Morgan Spector

Morgan Spector is an American actor.

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Natalie Abrahami

Natalie Abrahami is a British theatre, film and opera director.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Obie Award

The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by The Village Voice newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City.

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Off-Broadway

An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.

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Perriton Maxwell

Perriton Maxwell (January 11, 1868 – May 2, 1947) was an American author, editor and artist.

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Rebecca Hall

Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is an English actress and director.

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Rick Fisher (lighting designer)

Rick Fisher is an American lighting designer, known for his work with Stephen Daldry on Billy Elliot the Musical and An Inspector Calls.

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Robert Edmond Jones

Robert Edmond Jones (December 12, 1887 – November 26, 1954) was an American scenic, lighting, and costume designer.

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Robert Montgomery Presents

Robert Montgomery Presents is an American drama television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950, until June 24, 1957.

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Roundabout Theatre Company

The Roundabout Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, affiliated with the League of Resident Theatres.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Ruth Snyder

May Ruth Snyder (née Brown; March 27, 1895 – January 12, 1928) was an American murderer.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Sophie Treadwell

Sophie Anita Treadwell (October 3, 1885 – February 20, 1970) was an American playwright and journalist of the first half of the 20th century.

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Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television.

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Stephen Warbeck

Stephen Warbeck (born 21 October 1953) is an English composer, best known for his film and television scores.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.

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The Public Theater

The Public Theater is an arts organization in New York City.

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Theatre Arts Magazine

Theatre Arts Magazine, sometimes titled Theatre Arts or Theatre Arts Monthly, was a magazine published from November 1916 to January 1964.

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Todd Haimes Theatre

The Todd Haimes Theatre (previously known as the American Airlines Theatre and originally the Selwyn Theatre) is a Broadway theater at 227 West 42nd Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City.

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