The Emperor Jones 1920

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Opened: November 1, 1920

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Meet the Cast of MACBETH
by Stephi Wild - Mar 29, 2022


Macbeth begins performances tonight, March 29, 2022, at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street) and opens on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Learn more about the cast bringing this show back to the stage!

Photos: First Look at TAMMANY HALL A New Site-Specific, Immersive Production at SoHo Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 19, 2021


Rub shoulders with some of New York’s legendary politicians, mobsters, molls, and showgirls under the very roof that brought them all together during the Prohibition Era. Tammany Hall, a new, site-specific, immersive theater experience created and directed by Darren Lee Cole (Fleabag, Killer Joe) and Alexander Wright (The Great Gatsby)

Theater Stories: THE BOOK OF MORMON's Record-Setting Run, Arthur Miller's First Hit & More About the Eugene O'Neill Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2020


Today's Theater Stories features the Eugene O'Neill Theatre! Learn about Neil Simon's special relationship with the theatre, the first Arthur Miller play to become a smash on Broadway, the history of Eugene O'Neill's plays and more.

Virtual Theatre Today: Thursday, July 30- with Keala Settle, Jessie Mueller and More!
by Nicole Rosky - Jul 30, 2020


Today (July 30) in live streaming: The New Group presents The Spoils, The Muny 2020 Summer Variety Hour is back, and so much more!

Irish Rep Announces New MEET THE MAKERS Conversations and Schedule Changes to Summer Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 9, 2020


Irish Repertory Theatre announced today upcoming editions of their online series Meet the Makers. A digital series of conversations with scholars and Irish Rep artists discussing their work and theatre in general, Meet the Makers offers a behind-the-scenes look at Irish history, theatre and the creative process.

Lyric Stage's ANNA CHRISTIE Cast And Creative Team Announced
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 14, 2018


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, O'Neill's classic is a surprisingly contemporary play that crackles with fierce physicality, humor, and drama. After a 20-year separation, a coal barge captain (Lyric Stage favorite Johnny Lee Davenport) is reunited with the daughter he unknowingly abandoned to a life of hardship. When Anna falls in love with a shipwrecked sailor, her father and her suitor come to recognize their own culpability in her plight, and all three struggle in their own way for salvation. Following his acclaimed production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Scott Edmiston takes a fresh look at one of America's greatest playwrights.

George M. Cohan and Eugene O'Neill: Two Irish-Americans Who Helped Define Broadway
by Michael Dale - Mar 17, 2016


A St. Patrick's Day toast to the Father of the American Musical Comedy and The Father of the American Drama.

Palm Beach Dramaworks Opens LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Jan 29, 2016


This monumental, searing masterwork, which earned O'Neill his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Drama, opens at Palm Beach Dramaworks tonight, January 29 and continues through February 28. Please note that all evening performances are at 7:30pm, and all matinees are at 1:00pm.

Palm Beach Dramaworks to Open LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT This Month
by BWW News Desk - Jan 4, 2016


This monumental, searing masterwork, which earned O'Neill his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Drama, opens at Palm Beach Dramaworks on January 29 and continues through February 28, 2016.

Fringe Encore Series Celebrates 10th Anniversary, Starting Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Sep 10, 2015


With over 200 shows presented at FringeNYC Festival and 900 at Edinburgh Fringe, it's hard to be in the know about what's worth seeing. Even worse is having missed the show everyone is talking about post festival. Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the Fringe Encore Series will present some of the most critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing shows from both festivals. But more importantly, pinpoints and cultivates the theater talent of tomorrow.

Breaking News: Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE Headed Back to Broadway Starring Forest Whitaker!
by Robert Diamond - Aug 24, 2015


This just in! BroadwayWorld.com has learned that the Academy Award, Golden Globe & BAFTA winning actor Forest Whitaker will make his highly anticipated Broadway debut in HUGHIE, by four- time Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Prize Laureate Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Tony and Olivier Award winner winner Michael Grandage, HUGHIE will play a strictly limited engagement in the spring of 2016 on Broadway at a Shubert Theatre to be announced.

Richard Symphony to Present BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY, Today
by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2015


April 29, 2015 - Richmond, Virginia Join everyone's favorite "Wascally Wabbit" and his friends Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Tweety, Sylvester and more today, May 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Richmond CenterStage's Altria Theater. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II celebrates the world's favorite classic Looney Tunes, projected on the big screen, while the Richmond Symphony performs their exhilarating, original Carl Stalling scores live.

Richard Symphony to Present BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY, 5/16
by Matt Smith - Apr 30, 2015


April 29, 2015 – Richmond, Virginia Join everyone's favorite “Wascally Wabbit” and his friends Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Tweety, Sylvester and more on Saturday, May 16 at 6:00 p.m. at Richmond CenterStage's Altria Theater. Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II celebrates the world's favorite classic Looney Tunes, projected on the big screen, while the Richmond Symphony performs their exhilarating, original Carl Stalling scores live.

EVIL DEAD, NICE WORK, 2CELLOS, Midtown Men and More Set for Long Center's 2014-15 Season
by BWW News Desk - Aug 13, 2014


The biggest, most accessible and diverse arts venue in the Texas capital is proud to announce its 2014-2015 Season of Long Center Presents programming. With two never-before-seen in Austin Broadway musicals, evenings of classic Southern musical comfort, laugh out loud comedies and plenty of family offerings, the Long Center is Austin's destination for arts and entertainment this season. Beginning May 27, subscription packages will be available to the public.

EVIL DEAD, NICE WORK, 2CELLOS, Midtown Men and More Set for Long Center's 2014-15 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2014


The biggest, most accessible and diverse arts venue in the Texas capital is proud to announce its 2014-2015 Season of Long Center Presents programming. With two never-before-seen in Austin Broadway musicals, evenings of classic Southern musical comfort, laugh out loud comedies and plenty of family offerings, the Long Center is Austin's destination for arts and entertainment this season. Beginning May 27, subscription packages will be available to the public.

Manilow's HARMONY, DeVito and Griffiths in THE SUNSHINE BOYS, WE WILL ROCK YOU, PORGY & BESS & More Set for Ahmanson in 2013-14
by BWW Special Coverage - Mar 13, 2013


The 2013-2014 Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre season was announced today by CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.

FLASH FRIDAY: A Christopher Plummer Celebration
by Pat Cerasaro - Jun 8, 2012


Today we are shining a light on one of the most respected and revered stage and screen stars of the last several decades who is known the world over for not only his stirring and commanding dramatic performances and touching and rib-tickling comedies on film, but also for his iconic roles on the stage playing Shakespeare, and, perhaps most of all, for his essaying of Captain Von Trapp in the celebrated Robert Wise film adaptation of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Tony Award-winning THE SOUND OF MUSIC - the elegant, graceful and eminently gifted Christopher Plummer. Looking back at a career spanning nearly seven decades, today we will focus on Plummer's most important and most fondly remembered roles to date - ranging from Sidney Lumet's STAGE STRUCK in 1958 to his Shakespeare stage work, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, THE RETURN OF THE PINK PANTHER, TV's THE THORN BIRDS, and, of course, his Academy Award-winning turn in last year's BEGINNERS - with a look ahead to the exceptionally enticing new Fathom in-cinema presentation of Des McAnuff's Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of THE TEMPEST starring Plummer as Prospero, in movie theaters nationwide on June 14 - what the 83-year-old actor has promised will be his final Shakespeare performance onstage. So, if there were ever a time to take a look back at one of the most remarkable Broadway/Hollywood crossover stars of the last century or the current one as he reaches yet another peek in a career populated with many highs, now is certainly the time! After all, as the oldest Oscar-winner to date, a midsummer night's dream has evidently quite quickly turned to a winter's tale - but with sound and fury signifying much, as we will see.

Irish Rep Ends Extended Run of BEYOND THE HORIZON
by BWW News Desk - Apr 15, 2012


The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) ends its extended run of BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - tonight, April 15.

Irish Rep Announces Extension of BEYOND THE HORIZON Through April 15
by Sally Henry Fuller - Mar 9, 2012


The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) announces a one-week extension of its hit revival of BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - with performances now set to run through April 15 on the Irish Repertory's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.

Ciaran O'Reilly Directs BEYOND THE HORIZON at Irish Rep, Opens 2/26
by BWW News Desk - Feb 26, 2012


The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 24th Season with BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - with previews set to begin February 15, prior to its official opening on February 26 on the Irish Repertory's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.

Previews Begin Tonight for Eugene O'Neill's BEYOND THE HORIZON at Irish Repertory
by Kelsey Denette - Feb 15, 2012


The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 24th Season with BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - with previews set to begin February 15, prior to its official opening on February 26 on the Irish Repertory's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.

Ciaran O'Reilly Directs BEYOND THE HORIZON at Irish Rep, Opens 2/26
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 19, 2012


The Irish Repertory Theatre (132 West 22nd Street) continues its 24th Season with BEYOND THE HORIZON - Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two brothers in love with the same woman - with previews set to begin February 15, prior to its official opening on February 26 on the Irish Repertory's Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage.

World Premiere by Bacharach/Slater, SCOTTSBORO BOYS et al. Set for Old Globe in 2011-2012; Full Season Announced
by Jessica Lewis - May 6, 2011


Executive Producer Lou Spisto today announced that The Old Globe will produce the World Premieres of four new plays and musicals in its 2011-12 Winter Season. The season will feature the World Premiere musicals Some Lovers by music legend Burt Bacharach and Tony Award winner Steven Sater and Nobody Loves You by Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses, as well as the West Coast Premiere of John Kander and Fred Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys, recently nominated for 12 Tony Awards including Best Musical, directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman. The two plays receiving World Premiere productions are Somewhere by Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez and The Recommendation by Jonathan Caren. The new season also includes revivals of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show and the Eugene O'Neill classic Anna Christie directed by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner David Auburn. Special events include the World Premiere of Odyssey by Todd Almond, a music theater event conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet celebrating the Globe's 75th Anniversary, The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Twelfth Night and Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which returns for its 14th consecutive year.

THE EMPEROR JONES Comes To The Centre Theater, Closes 3/27
by BWW News Desk - Mar 27, 2011


Brutus Jones, an African American train porter and ex-con, has taken control of an island in the Caribbean.

Centre Theatre Presents THE EMPEROR JONES, 3/4
by BWW News Desk - Mar 4, 2011


Brutus Jones, an African American train porter and ex-con, has taken control of an island in the Caribbean. Setting himself up as an 'Emperor' he takes advantage of the natives superstition and naivety to make himself rich.

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