The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: A Moon for the Misbegotten

Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards as Josie and Jamie We finally come to the last of O’Neill’s great plays, and the only one I’ve seen live. As a senior in college, I tried out for A Moon for the Misbegotten for the role of Jamie. The greatest thespian at my school got it, and I …

The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey Into Night

(l-r) Dean Stockwell, Ralph Richardson, Katharine Hepburn, and Jason Robards in Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1962) Long Day’s Journey Into Night is the final play by Eugene O’Neill to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. It’s also the first of his plays to be published post-humously. O’Neill didn’t want it published for twenty-five …

The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: The Iceman Cometh

Lee Marvin as Hickey and Hildy Brooks as Margie in John Frankenheimer's adaptation of The Iceman Cometh In 1936, Eugene O’Neill would become the first (and only) American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, “for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy” (Nobel …