Celebrity history of BU housing Nov 16, 2009
According to legend and one current Boston University student, Eugene O'Neill left his ghost in Shelton Hall, in room 401. O'Neill was a prize-winning author. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Time in union clash Nov 13, 2009
William Ken nedy, who had picked up the first annual Eugene O'Neill Award from the Irish American Artists and Writers a week earlier, and cast members of the criti cally acclaimed Broadway revival of "Finian's Rainbow," including ... Among the guests were "Ironweed" author William Ken nedy, who had picked up the first annual Eugene O'Neill Award from the Irish American Artists and Writers a week earlier, and cast members of the criti cally acclaimed Broadway revival of "Finian's Rainbow,"... (New York Post -- Business)
Second City Takeover Oct 23, 2009
The city's biggest resident theater, the Goodman, has produced everything from major revivals of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller to last year's Pulitzer Prize winner, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, while a growing roster of smaller off-Loop theaters have nurtured experimental works like 2007's critically acclaimed musical version of Elmer Rice's expressionist play The Adding Machine. The play that attracted Craig and Jackman is a deceptively modest piece: a 90-minute two-hander in which the British... (Time.com)
ON THE RECORD: Notable quotes of the week Oct 17, 2009
First published in print: Saturday, October 17, 2009. "The financial system nearly collapsed because smart guys had started working on Wall Street.". (Albany Times Union)
Cast and creators recall the birth of 'Avenue Q' Sep 5, 2009
"We had to change script writers at one point. We went up (in 2002) to the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (in Waterford, Conn.), which was a wonderful place to develop it. We really took a big step forward. ... That's when we thought we could actually head toward a New York production.". The producers weren't sure what kind of reaction to expect from the subscription audience at the Vineyard, a small off-Broadway theater just east of Union Square. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Stephens College announces 2009-2010 performing arts season schedule Aug 5, 2009
The Information you need. Tuesday, August 04, 2009. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Playwright Letts draws on family for 'August' Aug 3, 2009
Before he won the Pulitzer Prize and Tony award for his family saga "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts made his mark with "Killer Joe" and "Bug," two scabrous off-Broadway hits that had more in common with Quentin Tarantino than Eugene O'Neill ... Q: "August: Osage County" is a blood-and-sinew, Eugene O'Neill-style submersion in family pain and recriminations. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
FAITH AND REASON: The story behind Malden's priest Jul 3, 2009
Photo by Fred Prouser, Reuters: Actor Karl Malden poses for photographers in front of a large photograph of himself before accepting the Monte Cristo Award from the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center at a luncheon in Beverly Hills, California in 2004. Photo from Bettman Archive: Marlon Brando, as longshoreman Terry Malloy in the 1954 film 'On the Waterfront' endures the indignity of a shape-up, a lineup for selection for work. (USA Today -- Life)
Show features series of plays Jun 30, 2009
After opening on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in 1973 and receiving a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, plus nominations for four additional Tonys, including Best Original Score, Best Featured Actor in a Play, and Best Lighting and Design, the play was adapted for television in 1978. In 1998, The Good Doctor played in New York City at The Melting Pot Theater and the Theater of the Riverside Church. (Raton Range, AL)
From My Stage To Your Stage May 25, 2009
The other night at the Eugene O'Neill, after Jane Fonda finished "33 Variations," Bernadette Peters was enraptured with Fonda's dog, Tulea, and was reminding everyone about her Broadway Barks event July 11 in Shubert Alley. Sam Waterston, on hiatus from "Law & Order," said he's writing a screenplay about financier Andrew Mellon. (New York Post -- Gossip)
B'way ticket availability through Sunday, May 24 May 18, 2009
"Desire Under the Elms." Brian Dennehy, Carla Gugino and Pablo Schreiber star in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's drama about a complicated, passionate family relationship ... All theaters owned by Jujamcyn the St. James, Martin Beck, Virginia, Eugene O'Neill and the Walter Kerr have a $2 surcharge per ticket for theater restoration. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Jose Rivera's 'Boleros for the Disenchanted' May 4, 2009
This one is more in the vein of great American playwrights telling family stories - think Eugene O'Neill or Tennessee Williams. "Boleros" tells the story of how Rivera's parents met in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1953 and then raised a family in small-town America. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Merrimack Repertory Theatre's 'Moon' is marked by waves of emotion Apr 30, 2009
Eugene O'Neill's last finished play uses this odd family duo as a way to return to James Tyrone (Michael Canavan), the character based on O'Neill's brother, who is destroying himself with drink ... A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN Play by Eugene O'Neill. (Boston Globe)
IN MY LIBRARY: BRIAN DENNEHY Apr 19, 2009
"I've written some screenplays, but I'm more of a farm worker than an architect. When I read Cormac McCarthy or Eugene O'Neill or even great nonfiction writers, I realize they do something I could never do.". What this hard-working actor does do, he tells The Post's Barbara Hoffman, is read. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Such Great Pals Apr 3, 2009
Tuesday night, Turner was spotted entering the Eugene O'Neill Theater, where Fonda is starring in "33 Variations." Our spy said, "Ted looked really excited, more excited than most people act when they're seeing their ex-wives." Fonda herself blogged: "It was fun to see Ted . . . He's so funny and sweet. It makes me happy that we still have feelings for each other -- although I couldn't go back to being the wife or even mistress again.". . (New York Post -- Gossip)
Never a plain Jane Fonda returns to stage Mar 12, 2009
Jane Fonda poses with her dog Tulea in her dressing room at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York ... Joan Marcus / APSamantha Mathis, left, Colin Hanks, center, and Jane Fonda are shown in a scene from "33 Variations," currently running at Broadway's Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York. (MSNBC -- News)
Meditations on memory in an unforgettable 'Lughnasa' Mar 11, 2009
Friel isn't Eugene O'Neill, raising a domestic curtain on doom; instead, he insists on the gallantry and grace of people, however pressured they may be: the barren sycamore tree overhanging Lez Brotherston's set did presumably have leaves on it once. The staging is full of telling, unexpected intimacies: Agnes, for instance, quickly buttoning up the blouse of her "simple" sister Rose (Simone Kirby), who returns amid great consternation from an extended tryst, or Kate and Maggie impulsively... (International Herald Tribune)
Riabko drops out of Spring Awakening tour Mar 11, 2009
He was following heartthrob Jonathan Groff, who had originated the role and become a favourite of the teenaged girls who lined the street outside the Eugene O'Neill Theatre's stage door waiting for a glimpse of the actor after performances. With his boyish good looks, though, Riabko attracted his own following. (Globe and Mail)
Fonda haunting in return to stage Mar 10, 2009
Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 West 49th St., New York. 212-239-6200. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
'33 Variations' puts Fonda onstage after 46 years Mar 3, 2009
There has been little time for aerobics as Fonda prepares for her first Broadway production in 46 years, 33 Variations, which opens Monday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Written and directed by Mois. (USA Today -- Life)
Playing against the odds Feb 28, 2009
It has been hailed as so much in the Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee tradition that it will be interesting to see, when the Melbourne Theatre Company does it in May, whether it looks like a pastiche or a free-standing object. In direct competition with Murray-Smith in the new comedy category is Neil LaBute's Fat Pig. (The Age, Australia -- Entertainment)
Festival considers O'Neill in the 21st century Feb 26, 2009
CHICAGO - For someone who was written off as passe long before he died in 1953, Eugene O'Neill still has an uncanny ability to grab headlines and spark debate among theater critics ... ""Desire" runs through March 1, but Gugino had to miss the final two weeks because of a prior movie commitment. She was replaced in those performances by Chicago actress Amy Carle.The original cast will be reunited for the production's New York engagement, which begins previews April 14 at the St. James Theatre... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
46 years later, Jane Fonda returns to Broadway Feb 23, 2009
As it happens, Henry Fonda has been on her mind lately, she said recently, sitting in her dressing room at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, where "33 Variations" opens March 9. With her was Tulea, her Coton de Tulear, a tiny, Bichon-like dog that is part of her accommodation to life without Ted. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A spring of big-name actors set for Broadway Feb 13, 2009
The drama arrives March 9 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen follow in "Impressionism," a world premiere by Michael Jacobs about the romance between a photojournalist and a New York gallery owner. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Putting a woman's crime of ambition on stage Feb 8, 2009
The two met at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, which staged a workshop production of her first play, "After Ashley," in 2003. Gionfriddo first became interested in theater at Georgetown Day School in Washington. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
