O'neill, Eugene (1888-1953)
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...
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Biography EssayIn the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan g...
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Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) was among the foremost dramatists of the America theater. His main concern was with the anguish and turmoil that wrack the spirits of sensitive people.Eugene O'Neill set out...
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"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than f...
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In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts,...
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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.
Although Ibsen voiced a prophecy...
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Teaching Three Plays
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Three Plays Lesson Plans contain 154 pages of teaching material, including:
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 cri...
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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 Un...
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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...
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Virtually nobody was surprised when American character actor
Philip Seymour
Hoffman
was announced as the winner of the 2006 Academy Award for best actor. He had been nearly every critic's pick fo...
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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 Lin...
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Kevin Spacey, the Academy Award–win ning actor who is now creative director of the Old Vic theater in London, is in town to perform in Eugene O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten o...
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City Center, that Moorish palace of entertainment on West 55th Street, is known for its "Encores!" series, concert versions of vintage American musicals. Three are presented each year during the se...
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By George, he's got it.Jefferson Mays will portray Henry Higgins in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," arriving on Broadway in October. No word yet on who will play Eliza Doolittle, th...
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By George, he's got it. Jefferson Mays will portray Henry Higgins in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," arriving on Broadway in October. No word yet on who will play Eliza Doolittle, t...
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.The play, which opened Sunday at ...
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O'neill, Eugene (1888-1953)
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
Lois S. Josephs
Kevin Spacey takes on Eugene O'Neill
