Four times the winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel laureate for literature in 1936, New York-born Eugene O'Neill is a towering, ground-breaking figure in American dramatic literature. The son of actor James O'Neill and a...

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. O'Neill's plays were among the first to introduce into American drama to the techniques of realism, associated with Russian playwright Anton...

The first preview begins in three days, and Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre is in full traffic mode. Stagehands, dressers, the house electrician, a company manager, even a press agent or two crisscross the ancient backstage confines of the Atkinson, the shabby part of the theater...

The papers of playwright, writer and film director David Mamet _ from handwritten journals to correspondence with actors _ has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas.Mamet, author of more than 50 plays and 25 screenplays, has won...

It's taken a while, but "Spring Awakening," the big winner at the 2007 Tony Awards, appears on its way to becoming a hot ticket _ at or least hotter than when the musical first opened last December."But we are not going to be 'Jersey Boys,'"...

Lee Marvin (1924–1987) brought a distinctive brand of amused and often bemused virility to over 60 action films from 1951 to 1986, the best of which are being shown by the Film Society of Lincoln Center from May 11 to May 24. Marvin won his...

In the following essay, Josephs confronts Eugene O'Neill's failure to treat the women in his dramas in any but traditional, sexually-stereotyped ways.