Editing The Adding Machine (section)

==Success==
Though the play has been critically regarded as a classic, it ran for just two months on Broadway for 72 performances in 1923. It has never been revived.

The play was an influence on the [[Tennessee Williams]] play ''[[Stairs to the Roof]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/oct/12/theatre.artsfeatures1|title=Theatre review: Stairs to the Roof|first=Michael|last=Billington|date=October 11, 2001|work=The Guardian}}</ref> Years later, it was adapted into a [[The Adding Machine (film)|1969 film]] of the same name, written and directed by Jerome Epstein and starring [[Milo O'Shea]], [[Phyllis Diller]], [[Billie Whitelaw]] and [[Sydney Chaplin (American actor)|Sydney Chaplin]].{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In 1989, Chicago's Hystopolis Productions adapted Rice's play for puppets;<ref>{{cite web |last=Bowen |first=Joseph |title=The Adding Machine: American business and the advent of technology. |date=July 19, 2003 |url=http://centerstage.net/theatre/articles/addingmachhys.html |work=Centerstage |accessdate=February 6, 2011}} Review of the Hystopolis production.</ref> the production was hailed for its visual design.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chicagos-other-puppet-theater/Content?oid=912567|title=Chicago's Other Puppet Theater|first=Jack|last=Helbig|website=Chicago Reader|date=July 10, 2003 }}</ref> In September 1992, this production went on to be featured at the First International Festival of Puppet Theater presented at [[The Public Theater]] in New York which was a co-production of [[Joseph Papp]] and the [[Jim Henson Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/16/theater/theater-in-review-660092.html|title=Theater in Review|first=Mel|last=Gussow|work=The New York Times |date=September 16, 1992}}</ref> ''The Adding Machine'' remains part of Hystopolis' professional repertoire.{{Citation needed|date=February 2011}}