New York, NY

Machinal Tickets

Name: Machinal
Start: 2025-06-07
End: 2025-07-13
Location: New York City Center

Don't miss this reimagined classic with vibrant choreography.

A person in a suit sits in a chair on stage, surrounded by five others reaching toward them, under dramatic lighting in an office-like setting.

A woman in a white robe sits on a bed in a dimly lit room with dark walls and a white curtain partition behind her.

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Three performers in gray outfits pose energetically on and around wooden desks on a theater stage with dramatic lighting.

About Machinal

Inspired by the infamous 1926 case of Ruth Snyder, a woman sent to the electric chair for murdering her husband, Machinal follows this woman’s rebellion against a world of crushing conformity—where passion, desperation, and defiance collide in a shocking act of violence. Nearly a century after its debut, this play remains a strikingly relevant meditation on gender, power, and the oppression of “the machine.”

Helmed by director Amy Marie Seidel (Here There Are Blueberries, The Great Gatsby), this reimagined production amplifies the mechanical rhythm and expressionism in Sophie Treadwell’s text through a dynamic underscoring of tap dance, practical foley, and heightened movement vocabulary created by choreographer Madison Hilligoss.

This production features Katherine Winter, Temidayo Amay, Sam Im, Kimberly Immanuel, Soph Metcalf, Shelley Mitchell, Alice Reys, Veronica Simpson, Hannah Snow, Michael Verre, Alex Lauren, and Annaliese Wilbur.