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: Anna Christie

Greta Garbo as Anna Christie Next up on the list of important O'Neill plays is Anna Christie, which won O'Neill his second Pulitzer Prize, just two years after he won for Beyond the Horizon.  It was also the first play of his to be adapted to the screen, in a 1923 silent version directed by …

The Plays of Eugene O’Neill: Beyond the Horizon

Eugene O'Neill Though I did a report on him in high school, I have seen only one Eugene O'Neill play (A Moon for the Misbegotten) and read another (Long Day's Journey Into Night).  While O'Neill productions are sadly not as numerous as they should be, I have decided to rectify this situation by renting movie …