"Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, is made up as it may appear in the play. The family in the script corresponds to the O'Neill family, which was Irish-American, with three name changes: The family name ""O'Neill"" is changed to ""Tyrone,"" which is the name of the earldom granted to Conn O'Neill by Henry VIII. The names of the second and third sons are reversed, ""Eugene"" with ""Edmund"". In fact, Eugene, the playwright, was the third and the youngest child, and he corresponds to the character of ""Edmund"" in the play. O'Neill's mother, Mary Ellen ""Ella"" Quinlan, corresponds to the character Mary"
"successes, including ""The Emperor Jones"", ""Anna Christie"" (Pulitzer Prize 1922), ""Desire Under the Elms"" (1924), ""Strange Interlude"" (Pulitzer Prize 1928), ""Mourning Becomes Electra"" (1931), ""The Iceman Cometh"" (1939) and his only well-known comedy, ""Ah, Wilderness!"". After his death, his magnum opus and masterwork ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" was published and is often regarded to be one of the finest American plays of the 20th century. The economic crisis of the Great Depression led to the creation of the Federal Theatre Project (1935–39), a New Deal program which funded theatre and other live artistic performances throughout the country. National director"
"Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the finest U.S. plays in the 20th century, alongside Tennessee Williams's ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" and Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"". O'Neill's plays were among the first to include speeches in"
"found himself unable to compose in that way. While at Tao House, O'Neill had intended to write a cycle of 11 plays chronicling an American family since the 1800s. Only two of these, ""A Touch of the Poet"" and ""More Stately Mansions"", were ever completed. As his health worsened, O'Neill lost inspiration for the project and wrote three largely autobiographical plays, ""The Iceman Cometh"", ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", and ""A Moon for the Misbegotten"". He managed to complete ""Moon for the Misbegotten"" in 1943, just before leaving Tao House and losing his ability to write. Drafts of many other"
"1978, stages a series of interpretations of William Faulkner's The Bear as a simultaneous demonstration and critique of critical pluralism. In his later book, ""Get The Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience"", Davis takes a more psychoanalytic approach, analyzing in depth five American plays--""The Iceman Cometh"", ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Death of a Salesman"", ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf""—in terms of their psychological impact upon the audience. Critic Frank Lentricchia called Davis's ""Get The Guests"" ""unparalleled"" and wrote of the author, ""Davis is a man of the theatre, he reads plays as"
"the later 1960 television film of O'Neill's ""The Iceman Cometh"", portraying the philosophical salesman Hickey; he won an Obie Award for his stage performance. He later portrayed Hickey again in another 1985 Broadway revival also staged by Quintero. Robards created the role of Jamie Tyrone in the original Broadway production of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", which was also directed by Quintero; Robards appeared in the lead role of James Tyrone Sr., in a 1988 production of the same play. Other O'Neill plays directed by Quintero and featuring Robards included ""Hughie"" (1964), ""A Touch"
"of O'Neill. Quintero staged several of his works, including ""The Iceman Cometh"" in 1956, which launched the career of Jason Robards. Later that year, Quintero's production of the New York premiere of ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" established his reputation as the quintessential director of O'Neill's dramas and won Tony Awards for Best Play and Best Actor (Fredric March). In 1963, he directed ""Strange Interlude"", with a cast which included Geraldine Page, Jane Fonda, Franchot Tone, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle and Betty Field. In 1967, he directed Ingrid Bergman in ""More Stately Mansions"" in Los Angeles and New York. In"
"play ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"", which O'Neill had instructed his publisher to withhold until 25 years after his death. The play was awarded the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and is O'Neill's best known work. A resident of the Valley Nursing Home in Westwood, New Jersey, Monterey died there on November 18, 1970. Carlotta Monterey Carlotta Monterey (born Hazel Neilson Taasinge; December 28, 1888 – November 18, 1970) was an American stage and film actress. She was the third and final wife of playwright Eugene O'Neill. Carlotta Monterey was born Hazel Neilson Taasinge on December 28, 1888, in San"
"plays: ""The Iceman Cometh"", ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"", ""Hughie"", and ""A Moon for the Misbegotten"". Due to a degenerative condition in his hand, he was unable to complete another play after 1943. O'Neill and his wife, actress Carlotta Monterey, showed their interest in Asian art, decor, and thought in preparing the home. The two personally designed the two-story, three-bedroom home from the ground up. The ceilings were dark blue to mimic the sky with dark wood floors representing the earth, as well as Noh masks, Chinese guardian statues, and Chinese lacquerware furnishings throughout the interior. Outside, Carlotta installed a"
"each other, and there are many allusions to events in South Africa. Both wish to return to their home countries, but their families do not want them there. Joe is the only African American character, and makes several speeches about racial differences. ""The Iceman Cometh"" is often compared to Maxim Gorky's ""The Lower Depths"", which may have been O'Neill's inspiration for his play. When O'Neill was alive, he delayed its performance on Broadway for seven years, fearing American audiences would reject it. O'Neill was at the height of his fame when he relented in 1946, and the production was a"
"Jules Eckert Goodman Jules Eckert Goodman (November 2, 1876 – July 10, 1962) was an American playwright and author. He was best known for his plays ""The Man Who Came Back"" (1916), ""The Silent Voice"" (1914), ""Chains"" (1923), and a series of plays featuring Potash and Permutter written with Montague Glass. Goodman was born in Gervais, Oregon in 1876. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1899 and master's degree from Columbia University in 1901. He was managing editor for four years of ""Current Literature"" and also wrote for ""Outing"" and the ""Dramatic Mirror"". He had his first"
"become Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s second producing director, then its artistic director (a title change only), retiring in 1991. Turner died of heart failure on September 2, 2004. Turner directed more than 40 productions at OSF, including ""The Iceman Cometh"", ""Julius Caesar"", ""King Lear"", ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", ""Major Barbara"", ""Macbeth"", ""Mother Courage and Her Children"", ""Pericles Prince of Tyre"", ""The Tempest"", and ""The White Devil"". He directed a number of his own translations of Swedish and Norwegian plays including ""The Dance of Death"", ""An Enemy of the People"", ""The Father"", ""Ghosts"", ""Peer Gynt"", ""Rosmersholm"", and ""The Wild Duck"". Turner"
"interred in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. In 1956 Carlotta arranged for his autobiographical play ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" to be published, although his written instructions had stipulated that it not be made public until 25 years after his death. It was produced on stage to tremendous critical acclaim and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. This last play is widely considered to be his finest. Other posthumously-published works include ""A Touch of the Poet"" (1958) and ""More Stately Mansions"" (1967). In 1967, the United States Postal Service honored O'Neill with a Prominent Americans series"
"of Donald Trump's remarks on the Unite the Right rally incident in Charlottesville, Virginia. However, his representatives stated that he, too, would be resigning and would add his name to the letter. Wolfe will direct a Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's ""The Iceman Cometh"" in 2018, with Denzel Washington starring as Hickey. The production will play at the Jacobs Theatre for 14 weeks and begin regular performances April 26. George C. Wolfe George Costello Wolfe (born September 23, 1954) is an American playwright and director of theater and film. He won a Tony Award in 1993 for directing """" and"
"the NBC series ""The Blacklist"". Dennehy has won two Tony Awards, both times for Best Lead Actor in a Play. The first win was for ""Death of a Salesman"" (for which he also won a Laurence Olivier Award for the production's London run), in 1999, and the second was for Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" in 2003. Both productions were directed by Robert Falls and were originally produced at the Goodman Theatre company in Chicago. On stage, Dennehy has made frequent performances in the Chicago theater world, and made his Broadway debut in 1995 in Brian Friel's ""Translations""."
"by ""Time"" magazine as one of the season's ""10 best"" American theater productions. His production of Elton John and Tim Rice's ""Aida"", which ran on Broadway between 2000 and 2004, went on to tour Germany, Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands. His Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", starring Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard, received three 2003 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, and three 2003 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Director of a Play. Falls is known for his bold, grand-scale world-premiere productions, which have included ""Blind"
"lives in New York with his wife Barbara and two daughters, Aniela and Sylvie. John Gromada John Gromada (born 1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. Broadway plays he has scored include the 2014 production of ""The Elephant Man"", starring Bradley Cooper, ""The Trip to Bountiful"" with Cicely Tyson, Gore Vidal's,""The Best Man (play)"", ""Seminar (play)"" by Theresa Rebeck,""Next Fall (play)"", Chazz Palminteri's ""A Bronx Tale"", David Auburn's ""The Columnist"", and ""Proof"", Lisa Kron's ""Well"", ""Rabbit Hole"","
"Edie Landau Edie Landau (born Edythe Rudolph, July 15, 1927 ) is an American film and TV producer and executive, known for such films as ""Long Day's Journey Into Night,"" ""The Pawnbroker, , The Chosen"" and the fourteen movies of The American Film Theatre, which she produced with her husband Ely A. Landau. Landau was born to a Jewish family and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Rose and Harry Rudolph (former president of the Eastern Basketball League) and sister to Mendy Rudolph (2007 inductee to the Basketball Hall of Fame). She received her B.A. in Education from Wilkes"
"John Gromada John Gromada (born 1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. Broadway plays he has scored include the 2014 production of ""The Elephant Man"", starring Bradley Cooper, ""The Trip to Bountiful"" with Cicely Tyson, Gore Vidal's,""The Best Man (play)"", ""Seminar (play)"" by Theresa Rebeck,""Next Fall (play)"", Chazz Palminteri's ""A Bronx Tale"", David Auburn's ""The Columnist"", and ""Proof"", Lisa Kron's ""Well"", ""Rabbit Hole"", and ""A Few Good Men"" ; revivals of ""Prelude to a Kiss"", ""Summer and"
"""Sincerely Yours"". Among other film adaptions of Goodman's work, ""The Man Who Came Back"" appeared in 1931. Goodman's reported last play ""Many Mansions"" (1937) was written with his son Eckert Goodman. Goodman died of pneumonia in Peekskill, New York, where he had resided for forty years, on July 10, 1962. His wife died in 1959, and he was survived by one son (Jules Eckert Goodman Jr.), and two daughters, Helen Goodman and Anna Freedgood. Jules Eckert Goodman Jules Eckert Goodman (November 2, 1876 – July 10, 1962) was an American playwright and author. He was best known for his plays"
"films as ""Titanic"" and ""Avatar""), Tina Landau (renowned theater writer and director), and Kathy Landau (Executive Director of Symphony Space in New York City). Edie Landau Edie Landau (born Edythe Rudolph, July 15, 1927 ) is an American film and TV producer and executive, known for such films as ""Long Day's Journey Into Night,"" ""The Pawnbroker, , The Chosen"" and the fourteen movies of The American Film Theatre, which she produced with her husband Ely A. Landau. Landau was born to a Jewish family and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Rose and Harry Rudolph (former president of the"
"Iceman Cometh"" at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2012, Lane assumed the role of Hickey, with Brian Dennehy playing the role of Larry Slade in a production directed by the Goodman's Artistic Director, Robert Falls. Receiving rave reviews, it won six Jeff Awards, including Best Ensemble, Director, and Production, and is the most successful show to date in the theater's history. In the spring of 2013, Lane returned to Broadway in ""The Nance"", a Lincoln Center production of new play by Douglas Carter Beane that was directed by Jack O'Brien. For this performance, he received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations"
"original verse play, based on Greek myths, ""Maiden Voyage"". Paul Osborn had a gift for friendship: Al Hirchfeld, Elia Kazan, Robert Frost. Frost, while becoming America's most noted poet, remained a close friend, intrigued by theater and travelling to New York for Osborn's first nights. Frost hoped to write a play in collaboration with his former student. ""Tomorrow's Monday"", a somewhat autobiographical play, was written in 1935-36. It was first produced at the Brattleboro Theatre in Vermont, in the summer of 1936 and had its New York premiere fifty years later at the Circle Repertory Company in the fall of"
"Truman Capote Truman Garcia Capote (; born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, including the novella ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"" (1958) and the true crime novel ""In Cold Blood"" (1966), which he labeled a ""nonfiction novel"". At least 20 films and television dramas have been produced from his work. Capote rose above a childhood troubled by divorce, a long absence from his mother, and multiple migrations. He had discovered his calling as"
"its founding, Dobama has been known for producing alternative work that would not otherwise be seen in Cleveland. This ranges from their initial production in 1959 to a staging of ""The Iceman Cometh"" by Eugene O'Neill and their many productions of new and Off-Broadway work. Notable plays that have seen their Cleveland premiere at Dobama Theatre include ""The Pillowman"", ""The Goat or Who is Sylvia?"", ""The Last Five Years"", ""The Larame Project"", ""Closer"", ""Wit"", ""How I Learned to Drive"", ""All in the Timing"", ""Top Girls"", ""Marvin's Room"", ""Speed the Plow"", ""Cloud Nine"", ""True West"", ""Catch 22"", ""Roots"", ""On the Verge"","
"James Tait Black Prize for his play Tomorrow Come Today. Gordon Dahlquist Gordon Dahlquist is an American playwright and novelist. A native of the Pacific Northwest, Dahlquist has lived and worked in New York City since 1988. His plays, which include ""Messalina"" and ""Delirium Palace"" (both Garland Playwriting Award winners), have been performed in New York and Los Angeles. Graduate of Reed College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists. Dahlquist's debut novel ""The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters"", a hybrid of fantasy and science fiction set in a period similar to"
"Barry Jenner Barry Francis Jenner (January 14, 1941 – August 8, 2016) was an American actor. Jenner was born January 14, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He began acting during his college years at West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jenner moved to New York City where he found roles in Club Champion’s ""Widow"", opposite Maureen Stapleton, and ""Put Them All Together"" with Mariette Hartley. Along with Olympia Dukakis, he was a founding member of the innovative Whole Theatre Company where he starred opposite Olympia in ""Long Day’s Journey Into Night"". Jenner also received wide acclaim as the self-destructive pitcher"
"nominee (1993, 2001 and 2003), winning in 2001 (Best Actor – Featured Play) for his role as A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's ""The Invention of Love"". He had a prior association with Stoppard's work, playing the role of Valentine in the New York premiere of ""Arcadia"" at Lincoln Center in 1995. His 2003 Tony nomination was for his portrayal of Edmund Tyrone in a well-received revival of Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"" that co-starred Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Dennehy and Vanessa Redgrave. Leonard has also appeared in Broadway musical productions, in 2001 replacing Craig Bierko as the"
"Bond's ""The Sea"", and ""Marguerite"", a musical based on ""La Dame aux Camélias"", with music by Michel Legrand and book by Alain Boublil He directed the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" with Jessica Lange at the American Airlines Theatre in 2016. The production won two 2016 Tony Awards, including Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play. His acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre productions of ""Platonov"", ""Ivanov"" and ""The Seagull"" by Anton Chekhov - in a new version by David Hare - played at the National Theatre, London, in"
"Space in his honor. Al Freeman Jr. Albert Cornelius ""Al"" Freeman Jr. (March 21, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American actor, director, and educator. A life member of The Actors Studio, Freeman appeared in a wide variety of plays, ranging from Leroi Jones' ""Slave/Toilet"" to Joe Papp's revivals of ""Long Day's Journey Into Night"" and ""Troilus and Cressida"", and films, including ""My Sweet Charlie"", ""Finian's Rainbow"", and ""Malcolm X"", as well as television series and soap operas, such as ""One Life to Live"", ""The Cosby Show"", ""Law & Order"", """" and ""The Edge of Night"". Freeman was born"
"Florence Eldridge Florence Eldridge (born Florence McKechnie, September 5, 1901, in Brooklyn, New York - August 1, 1988, in Long Beach, California) was an American actress. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in Play in 1957 for her performance in ""Long Day's Journey into Night"". The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. McKechnie, Eldridge was born Florence McKechnie in Brooklyn. She attended public schools, including P.S. 85 and Girls' High School. Eldridge made her Broadway debut at age 17 as a chorus member of ""Rock-a-Bye Baby"" at the Astor Theatre. The reference book ""American"
"Noël Coward Theatre in the West End in 2010. Trevor White (actor) Trevor Alan White (born 26 October 1970) is a Canadian actor who has worked in theatre, film, television and radio since 1994, based in London, England since 2001. He starred in the West End hit ""A Long Day's Journey Into Night"" by Eugene O'Neill with David Suchet, Laurie Metcalf and Kyle Soller. It was on at the Apollo Theatre until 18 August 2012. White was born in 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Alan and Lamorna White. In 1992, White graduated with a B.A. in Economics from Queen's"
"David Mamet David Alan Mamet (; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays ""Glengarry Glen Ross"" (1984) and ""Speed-the-Plow"" (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976: ""The Duck Variations,"" ""Sexual Perversity in Chicago,"" and ""American Buffalo."" His plays ""Race"" and ""The Penitent"", respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017. Feature films that Mamet both wrote and directed include ""House of Games"" (1987), ""Homicide"" (1991), ""The Spanish Prisoner"" (1997), ""Heist"" (2001), and"