Magnificent Krapp's spool of life Jun 30, 2008
HughieBy Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Robert Falls. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Bridger performs 'Seekers of the Fleece' at Flicker Jun 15, 2008
" The Louisiana native has enjoyed a fascinating career, having collaborated with the likes of Nashville guitarist Fred Carter Jr., playwright and screenwriter Dale Wasserman ("Man of La Mancha," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), author Vine Deloria, director Joe Sears ("Greater Tuna"), actor David Carradine and American West painter Alfred Jacob Miller, who died 100 years before Bridger wrote his epic trilogy, but whose works were included in Bridger's first published work. He has also served... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Live from Williamstown Jun 6, 2008
Paula Vogel, recently appointed Eugene O'Neill professor and chair of playwriting at the School of Drama, will also serve as playwright-in-residence at Yale Rep. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Diaries shed light on unlikely would-be U.S. saint May 30, 2008
Before converting to Catholicism, she caroused with the likes of playwright Eugene O'Neill, committed every sin "aside from drug addiction" and had an abortion. Later, she chastized those who called her a saint. (USA Today -- News)
The Prairies' instant star on Broadway May 26, 2008
NEW YORK At about 8:07 p.m. last Friday evening, as Saskatoon's Kyle Riabko watched the opening scene of the Tony-winning rock musical Spring Awakening unfold all around him on the stage of the Eugene O'Neill Theater, he had a little trouble focusing on the task at hand. Here he was, making his professional stage debut - on Broadway, no less - by replacing the young man who had originated the lead role, and Riabko had never even run through the whole show. (Globe and Mail)
From Prairie heartland to Broadway heartthrob May 14, 2008
Next Friday, Riabko will step onto the stage at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre to take over the lead role in Spring Awakening, the eight-time Tony-winning rock musical based on Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play about teenage angst. In August, he will head out with the show's new touring production that will play across the United States before landing at Toronto's Canon Theatre next spring for a month-long stay. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Theater a lively, deadly scene in '58 Apr 21, 2008
The place was packed with 1,500 people for the Anchorage Community College Theatre Workshop's production of "Ah, Wilderness" by Eugene O'Neill. Will Rogers Jr. -- son of the famed comic, commentator and aviator -- had come to town to perform with the locals. (Anchorage Daily News)
Broadway looks to Odets Apr 19, 2008
"Once you work through the canon of Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, you find a whole canon of great playwrights like Odets and Lillian Hellman," says Jon Robin Baitz, the playwright who, as a friend of the Odets estate, is working with Nichols to tweak "Country Girl" for the new production. Prior to the 2006 "Awake" revival, the work of Odets had been seen on Broadway only about once a decade since his death in 1963. (Variety)
Working. And Still Poor. Apr 13, 2008
Sunset over Lawrence is a nightly metaphor of history, happening over and over again, the way Eugene O'Neill said it did in the Ireland that chased so many people away into the mills of New England. They were devoured by The Economy there, and the issues of how they survived contained so many little economies that they all took them into the streets and laid the template for a city's personality that has remained unchanged up to this very evening. (Boston Globe)
Write, stop, pivot, punch Apr 7, 2008
No one else - not even Eugene O'Neill, who set out in the mid-30s to write a nine-play cycle and managed only two - had aimed so high and achieved so much. Wilson's plays brought blacks and whites together under the same roof to share in the profound mysteries of race and class, and the bittersweet awareness of how separate yet indivisible we really are. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Dew' drops into London Apr 6, 2008
To have caught Susan Glaspell's serio-comic study of bobbed hair and birth control, parochial values and artistic passion, you'd have to be more than 86 years old, given that it was produced just once, in 1922, by the celebrated Provincetown Players of Eugene O'Neill fame. Since then, the unpublished text has languished in the Library of Congress. (Variety)
Long slog predicted for Patrick the author Mar 29, 2008
But shelve for a moment romantic visions of Ernest Hemingway or Eugene O'Neill clattering away on keyboards deep into the dark night. The political memoir these days is as much a book as it is a prerequisite for running for higher office. (Boston Globe)
ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR Feb 9, 2008
FEBRUARY 26-28 - Brown Bag Theatre presents "The Dreamy Kid" by Eugene O'Neill on Feb. 26 and 28 at 12:40 p.m. and Feb. 27 at 12:10 p.m. at the King's Theatre, Administration Building. The event is free. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
Over 70, creative as ever Jan 20, 2008
"You can try to read a Eugene O'Neill play, but chances are you're going to laugh at it. But if you see it on the stage it's going to probably knock your socks off, if it's performed right.". "Being able to collaborate with other people, to share energy and knowledge and enthusiasms is truly energizing to me," he says. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
In a tale of desperation, Allen and his cast are in control Jan 18, 2008
The Blaines are caught in a Eugene O'Neill time trap. They're living for an unattainable future. (Boston Globe)
Playwright Albee leads course on own work Jan 14, 2008
"It's Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee.". Albee's latest work involves identical twins, both named Otto, whose mother isn't able to tell them apart and who take sibling rivalry to new heights. (Princeton University The Daily Princetonian)
Gilbert Harrison; was editor of New Republic Jan 12, 2008
In 1969, Mr. Harrison bought Liveright Publishing, a book publisher that had launched William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Sherwood Anderson and whose backlist contained works of Eugene O'Neill, Robinson Jeffers, Sigmund Freud, and Theodore Dreiser. He sold that company, too, in 1974. (Boston Globe)
Hillary Booed at NH Dem Party Dinner... Jan 5, 2008
I can't wait to hear from the other new guy, the one with the Eugene O'Neill wannabe picture. There's gotta be a factory out there somewhere, a very scary factory. (The Drudge Report)
The therapist is in ... production Jan 5, 2008
IN 1988, Clyman took his first step toward national visibility: An early version of the script that would become "The Secret Order" was chosen for a reading at that year's National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut. By the early 1990s he had moved his practice to northern New Jersey, to be more plugged-in with the New York City theater scene. (Los Angeles Times)
-Film critic geezers Jan 1, 2008
In the midst of their review of "Lars," Semple sagely observes that the film's comic premise -- that everyone in town accepts the idea that Lars could be in love with a sex doll named Bianca -- is a time-honored American dramatic device of preserving illusion that dates to the plays of Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. However, as Semple notes, "Delusion to me is quite different from illusion. I thought everyone in this town was incredibly stupid." Nasatir disagrees. (Los Angeles Times)
'The Savages': Lost without Tinkerbell Dec 23, 2007
In her grant applications she compares her latest play to the work of Jean Genet or Eugene O'Neill. Her play is semi-autobiographical, she states. (Toronto Star)
Broadway plays its strong suit Dec 22, 2007
Perhaps the strongest of the new works has been Letts' blistering saga of the disintegration of an American family, "August: Osage County," a meaty, three-act work of three hours-plus, full of barbed dialogue that pays homage to classic works by Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams. As well as bringing a new voice to Broadway, the production showcases superb ensemble work from a cast primarily of Chicago actors from the Steppenwolf Theater Company, most of them unknown to New York... (Variety)
AND ALL THAT JAZZ Dec 16, 2007
True, ragtime madness" had its detractors, a precursor to future culture wars, but the Castles swept salacious fears aside. Their polished image, never mind their Gatsby-esque spending sprees, epitomized the decade. They were helped, in large part, by a savvy business manager. Elisabeth Marbury invented the profession of literary and theatrical agent, counting Oscar Wilde and Eugene O'Neill among her clients. She instituted a multimedia blitz for the Castles, putting then in a short film that... (New York Post -- Opinions)
'August: Osage County' will leave you reeling Dec 6, 2007
That might smack of Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'Neill or Edward Albee, but Letts' perspective is bracingly fresh. He lets fly so many original and diabolically funny ideas about fear, yearning and relationships that he reinvigorates the family drama and brings it up to date. (New York Daily News)
New lights are up on Broadway Dec 5, 2007
In August: Osage County, at the Imperial Theatre, Tracy Letts, a playwright best known for the taut, twisted Killer Joe and Bug, unexpectedly and brilliantly channels Eugene O'Neill. Running at nearly 3 hours with two intermissions, and focusing on a drug-addled matriarch and her damaged offspring, August might be viewed as an homage to Long Day's Journey Into Night. (USA Today -- Life)
• Woman, 21, Dies In I-95 Crash Nov 25, 2007
Herman Chacha was hit Wednesday night while crossing Eugene O'Neill Drive and died Friday in Yale-New Haven Hospital ... Police said that after Price's car hit Chacha, she turned around in the municipal parking lot and drove the wrong way up Eugene O'Neill Drive, looked at Chacha and fled the scene, the Associated Press reported. (FOX61, CT)
Judge: Broadway's 'Grinch' will reopen Nov 23, 2007
It owns five Broadway theaters the St. James, the Al Hirschfeld, the August Wilson, the Eugene O'Neill and the Walter Kerr. It is currently owned by Rocco Landesman, who purchased the company in 2005. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Fred Claus ** Nov 9, 2007
So with its familial angst and mile-wide mean streak, Fred Claus ends up closer in spirit to Eugene O'Neill than it is to Dr. Seuss. Since the funniest moments are often the ones most adult in nature like when Fred attends a Siblings Anonymous group that includes Frank Stallone, Roger Clinton and Stephen Baldwin, all poking fun at their other-brother status the humour is likely to soar over the heads of the tykes in the audience. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Vocal authority Nov 6, 2007
And though he has also completed a screenplay for producer Scott Rudin based on an incident in the life of playwright Eugene O'Neill, Kushner said, I haven't been seduced away (from the stage by) film. I won't pretend that I like writing screenplays as much as I like writing plays. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Kushner's art, the recent years Nov 6, 2007
Screenplay for film about an incident in the early life of Eugene O'Neill, America's greatest playwright, with producer Scott Rudin. New play, spring 2009 premi;re at The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with Kathleen Chalfant in a leading role. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Book set mostly does justice to August Wilson's cycle Oct 31, 2007
Often called the Pittsburgh Cycle because every play but one is set in Wilson's native Hill District, it has earned him a position alongside Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams as the great theatrical chroniclers of the comedy and tragedy of our national life. Wilson died Oct. 2, 2005, just 60 years old. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
CCSU professor publishes book on NYC slums Oct 22, 2007
In his American Realism and Naturalism class, he teaches Walt Whitman, Eugene O'Neill and Wallace Thurman, as well as the Beat Generation writers, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Dowling says his next book will be a series of essays on O'Neill. (New Britain Herald, CT)
Facebook's party crashers Oct 17, 2007
My pal, who teaches at UC, Berkeley in his spare time and is a well-read guy, joined a Facebook club called "Reading Is Sexy" and checked out a chat thread titled, "fav author normal people have never heard of." Among the writers who garnered high praise were such super-obscure names as Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel Garca Mrquez, Edith Wharton and Eugene O'Neill. Of the last it was said, "He's an American dramatist and he's amazing!". (Globe and Mail)
Finally, literary 'knighthood' for Edmund Wilson Oct 11, 2007
He liked Ring Lardner, Eugene O'Neill and Sherwood Anderson, and he loved D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover.". 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Film: The Nanny Diaries Oct 1, 2007
It's as dark as a Eugene O'Neill play but with Sex in the City styling. The film it's trying to slide in behind, at least for the producers (the Weinstein Company), is probably The Devil Wears Prada, based on another best-selling tell-all book about the empty lives of the rich in New York. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ahmadinejad and the Suicidal Left Sep 27, 2007
Eugene O'Neill, Oklahoma City, USASep 26, 2007 @ 08:34 PM. Share Your Comment. (Human Events Online)
The Harvey 'Affair' Sep 17, 2007
Comparing his own vision to the lonely ache of Carson McCullers or the hiding of dark secrets in Tennessee Williams, or that dark spot in Eugene O'Neill, Fierstein said his work has always been more outwardly directed, about finding yourself and being true to yourself. That mantra drove his writing for Catered Affair. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In defense of New Jersey Sep 15, 2007
Princeton University: Props are due for the university that provided a longtime home for Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Studies and gave us such personal faves as Kings GM Geoff Petrie and former coach Pete Carril, movie men Ethan Coen and Jimmy Stewart, athletes Moe Berg and Bill Bradley, pols James Madison and Adlai Stevenson, dissenters Ralph Nader and Norman Thomas (conservatives might prefer Donald Rumsfeld and Samuel Alito), scientist Richard Feynman, writers F. Scott... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Stratford announces four new 2008 productions Sep 6, 2007
Three new works will premiere at the theatre in 2008, as well as experimental works by Samuel Beckett and Eugene O'Neill ... He will take the lead in two one-act classics, Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett, and Hughie, by Eugene O'Neill. (CBC.ca)
Artists fight for a fading way of life Sep 4, 2007
Concerned residents in Provincetown tick off a list of encroachments on the town's artistic legacy in recent years: the studio of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazell was torn down; a former home of playwright Eugene O'Neill was renovated and dramatically transformed. A barn on Pearl Street where Hawthorne's student Henry Hensche, an influential painter and teacher of color realism, instructed students for 50 years was sold and converted to condominiums after his successor ran out of money to... (Boston Globe)
Play In "Ptown" Sep 2, 2007
And not just pilgrim history - Henry David Thoreau, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, journalist Jack Reed (remember the Warren Beatty movie "Reds") and others have added their names and talent to the lore of Provincetown. Cemetery On A Hill. (CBS News)
Tony wins power 'Awakening' Aug 29, 2007
The show, with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Steven Sater, earned glowing reviews from its Dec. 10 opening at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, but sales momentum was slow to grow. Young auds, a target demo given the show's subject matter, were cultivated through a heavy online presence as well as through low-priced onstage seating. (Variety)
Art, dance, theater, music and more... IT'S ALL AT THE LYCEUM Aug 17, 2007
n Feb 22-24 and Feb. 29-March 2: "The Hairy Ape," a drama by Eugene O'Neill. n Feb. 27: PJC Student Recital. (Pensacola News Journal)
Weekend Guide Jul 26, 2007
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY Is holding Equity principal auditions by appointment for the upcoming productions of "The Vertical Hour," by David Hare, Aug. 2 from noon-7 p.m.; "Ah, Wilderness!" by Eugene O'Neill, Aug. 6, starting at 4:30 p.m. (casting 11-year-old male only); "The Chicken Snake," Amy Hartman, Sept. 10 from 3-11 p.m.; For appointments for all productions, contact Kim Martin at 412-621-4445, ext. 4632 or via e-mail at. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
S.D. a nice starting point for musicals Jul 13, 2007
Big River opened in June 1984 at the Mandell Weiss Theatre of La Jolla Playhouse: The Broadway production at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre received seven 1985 Tony awards for best musical, director (Des McAnuff), book, score (Roger Miller), featured actor, scenic design, and lighting ... The Broadway edition opened at the Eugene O'Neill in October 2000, followed by a national tour that came to the Civic in October 2002. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Neil Patrick Harris to Direct Premiere Presentation of Amanda Rogers' Comedic Play I AM GROCK Jul 10, 2007
Amanda is a graduate of Northwestern University's School of Theatre and the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. Media Contact for "I AM GROCK": Brian McWilliams Spelling Communications 310-477-9500. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
`A Narrow Bridge' falls way short of greatness Jul 4, 2007
Yet Cleveland playwright Hershman has an impressive background: In 1979, his first play was a semifinalist in the Eugene O'Neill Playwriting Contest. For some unknown reason, Hershman threw out all of his plays in 1981 and stopped writing for 25 years. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
Book Played Luce With Facts Jun 17, 2007
But Time spokeswoman Dawn Bridges responds: "While we can't ask Henry Luce's feelings on Williams from the grave, a 1962 cover story on him that ran during Luce's lifetime called him 'the greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill.' ". She also noted a glaring inaccuracy in the book in which Hadleigh claims that, in 1959, Time critic Richard Schickel's review of the film version of Williams' "Suddenly, Last Summer," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, bemoaned: "Why do we have to... (New York Post -- Gossip)
Manhattan transfers Jun 16, 2007
"Avenue Q" preemed at the Vineyard after being developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual Music Theater Conference in Waterford, Conn. The tuner has been running on Broadway since 2003. (Variety)
Amy Sullivan, 54, executive at O'Neill Center Jun 14, 2007
NEW YORK -- Amy Sullivan, who as executive director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn ... The center, which overlooks Long Island Sound, opened in 1964 to commemorate Eugene O'Neill and to find new playwriting talent. (Boston Globe)
» Theater schedule Jun 14, 2007
EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER CENTER ... Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford. (CTNow.com)
Man Rises to Meet Swift Success Jun 14, 2007
His backing helped the production move from a conceptual off-Broadway version to a successful and continuing run at New York's Eugene O'Neill Theater. McGinnis, 54, was among some 30 listed producers, including Tom Hulce, best known for his lead role in the movie "Amadeus." While careful not to slight any other named producers, McGinnis said his contribution to the production went beyond mere financial backing for the project, which took eight years to coalesce. (The Ledger)
`Spring Awakening' basks in Tony wins Jun 13, 2007
Last week, for example, the show grossed $644,716, filling more than 92 percent of the seats at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. And it has recouped nearly 50 percent of its $6 million production costs. (The Advocate -- Entertainment)
Newsday theater critic predicts Tony Award winners Jun 12, 2007
She teaches frequently at the Eugene O'Neill Center, has served on the Pulitzer Prize nominating juries and has judged the Pulitzer Prize for drama seven times, five times as panel chair. . (Newsday -- Entertainment)
'Spring,' 'Utopia' coast through Tony Awards Jun 11, 2007
" "Spring Awakening's" director Michael Mayer credited "an astonishing design team, able to maintain the intimacy of the Atlantic Theater at the Eugene O'Neill. The great thing about young actors is they don't know how to give a B performance. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Watch the Tonys, see the plays Jun 11, 2007
At the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 W. 49th St.. Tony winners from previous seasons that are still worth a look include Avenue Q, the full-frontal nude puppet show that explores life in a grungy Manhattan neighbourhood still at The Golden Theatre, 252 W. 45th St. The Color Purple, the Oprah Winfrey produced musical by Marsha Norman, based on Alice Walker's inspirational novel about a black woman who survives cruelty to finally understand the meaning of love, is a Cole's Notes version of the... (Hamilton Spectator)
Writer's Paradise Jun 7, 2007
Tarkington never graduated either, nor did Eugene O'Neill, who should have been class of 1910 but only completed his freshman year. O'Neill also was involved with the Triangle Club, for which McCarter Theatre was built, although it eventually grew to be much more than a home for the playwriting and performing club. (Manville News, NJ)
Terrence McNally's `The Ritz' returns to Broadway this fall Jun 5, 2007
All theaters owned by Jujamcyn _ the St. James, Martin Beck, Virginia, Eugene O'Neill and the Walter Kerr _ have a $1. 50 surcharge per ticket for theater restoration. (FOX News)
Rosie Says Crafting Helps Her Cope May 29, 2007
Rosie O'Donnell speaks at a panel discussion with members of the cast of "Spring Awakening" at the Eugene O'Neill Theater on April 30, 2007 in New York. (Getty Images/Sussman/Nickelodeon). (CBS News)
Charles Nelson Reilly, 76; Tony-winner, TV personality May 29, 2007
"Eugene O'Neill could never begin to get near all this," Reilly said in the 2000 Times article. At 9, he got the lead in the school play, and a teacher told his mother that Reilly was the only true actor she had ever known, the Observer reported. (Los Angeles Times)
Guest list at New York's Hotel Chelsea memorable May 27, 2007
Here stayed a who's who of American and European culture: from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Wolfe, Sarah Bernhardt, Virgil Thompson and Arthur Miller to Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Sex Pistol punk rocker Sid Vicious. Irish playwright Brendan Behan wrote this poem at the Hotel Chelsea in 1963: "To America, my newfound land. The man that hates you hates the human race." William Burroughs wrote The Naked Lunch here. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Bill T. Jones and a 'narrative of trauma' May 23, 2007
And young theatergoers now wait nightly at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre's stage door on West 49th Street to glimpse actors Jonathan Groff (Melchior), John Gallagher Jr. (Moritz), Jonathan B. Wright (Hanschen), Gideon Glick (Ernst) and Lea Michele (Wendla). Some of those fans mimic the gestural pattern they see the actors use onstage -- a hand describes a circle on the torso. (CNN -- Showbiz)
'Spring Awakening' tops Tony nominees May 16, 2007
Also snubbed was Kevin Spacey in "A Moon for the Misbegotten"; Eve Best garnered the Eugene O'Neill revival's only nomination, in the leading actress/play category. She'll go up against heavy hitters Vanessa Redgrave ("The Year of Magical Thinking"), Swoosie Kurtz ("Heartbreak House"), and Julie White ("The Little Dog Laughed"), along with sentimental favorite and all-around legend Angela Lansbury, who already has a shelf full of Tonys and may be hampered by the tepid reaction to her current... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Book Review: The Joy of Drinking May 8, 2007
Mentioned are Johnson and Boswell, John Donne, Byron, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Eugene O'Neill, Edmund Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Hart Crane, Malcolm Lowry, Robert Lowell, John O'Hara, Kingsley Amis. And Dylan Thomas, who defined an alcoholic as "someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
O'Donnell: You'll hear my new plans soon May 1, 2007
O'Donnell only winked and walked away when pressed for details by reporters outside the Eugene O'Neill Theater in Manhattan, where she was a host for an online panel about teen issues with the cast of the N's Degrassi: The Next Generation and cast members of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening. "I'll give an autograph, not a comment," she said as she scribbled her name for some fans. (USA Today -- Life)
