In anticipation of its upcoming production of Eugene O’Neill’s epic drama Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy, The New Group proudly presents “O’Neill and his Electra,” an evening of conversation with Tony Kushner, Arthur and Barbara Gelb and Zoe Caldwell. This one night only special event takes place Friday, January 16 at 6:30 PM. Tickets are $20 and may be arranged through Ticket Central at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200. This event is free to New Group subscribers.
Take a closer look at
The Life and work of Eugene O’Neill with expert “O’Neillians” Arthur and Barbara Gelb and Tony® and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Tony Kushner as they engage with the legacy of one of America’s greatest playwrights. Special guest and four-time Tony winner
Zoe Caldwell will read passages from O’Neill’s work.
Arthur and Barbara Gelb are the authors of the best-selling seminal biography O’Neill (Harper & Brothers, 1962) and a second volume entitled O’Neill: Life with Monte Cristo (2000). They are currently completing their final volume on the playwright, slated for publication by Putnam in 2010. The Gelbs recently toured with
Zoe Caldwell, lecturing on O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night with excerpts from the play performed by Caldwell. They also wrote with Ric Burns the acclaimed documentary on O’Neill’s life that aired on WGBH in recent years.
Tony Kushner’s plays include A Bright Room Called Day, Angels in America, Parts One and Two, Slavs!, and Homebody/Kabul. He also wrote the acclaimed Caroline, or Change in collaboration with composer
Jeanine Tesori. He has adapted and translated Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion, S.Y. Ansky’s The Dybbuk,
Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Sezuan and Mother Courage and Her Children, and the English language libretto for the opera Brundibár by
Hans Krasa. He wrote the screenplays for
Mike Nichols’ film Angels in America and
Steven Spielberg’s Munich. Kushner is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, three Obie Awards, an Emmy Award and an Oscar nomination.
Australian-born
Zoe Caldwell is known for her Tony-winning performances in Slapstick Tragedy, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Medea and Master Class. Her other Broadway credits include The Creation of the World and Other Business and Macbeth. She has also appeared on film, voicing the character of the Grand Councilwoman in Disney’s Lilo & Stitch and most notably, as an imperious dowager in
Woody Allen’s The Purple Rose of Cairo.
One of the most prolific dramatists of the 20th Century, Eugene O’Neill is the only American playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1936). O’Neill’s first Broadway production Beyond the Horizon impressed critics with its tragic realism and won O’Neill his first of four Pulitzer Prizes in Drama (with others following for Anna Christie, Strange Interlude and Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which was produced posthumously). Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy premiered on Broadway in the midst of the Great Depression in October 1931 at the Guild Theatre, where it enjoyed a successful run into the following year.
Directed by
Scott Elliott, Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy will play a limited Off-Broadway run January 27 – April 18, with Official Opening Night on Thursday, February 19. Headlining a standout cast are
Lili Taylor as Christine Mannon,
Jena Malone as Lavinia Mannon, Joseph Cross as Orin Mannon, Anson Mount as Adam Brant,
Mark Blum as Ezra Mannon, Robert Hogan as Seth Beckwith.
Mourning Becomes Electra, A Trilogy will play at The New Group @ Theatre Row (The Acorn Theatre / 410 West 42nd Street, between 9th & 10th Avenue) as follows: Monday – Saturday @ 7:00 PM and Saturday @ 12:00 PM (matinee). Tickets may be arranged through Ticket Central at www.ticketcentral.com or (212) 279-4200, or at the Theatre Row Box Office (12:00–8:00 PM daily). Tickets are $61.25.
For more information, visit
www.thenewgroup.org.
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