O'Neill Theater Center Announces Upcoming Events and Performances

The National Playwrights Conference, led by artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, will present two more of the Conference's eight shows, Acquainted with the Night, by Keith Reddin and Leveling Up by Deborah Zoe Laufer.

Readings of Acquainted with the Night, directed by MarK Wing-Davey and featuring Reed Birney, Hannah Cabell, Rob Campbell, Laura Heisler, Scott Lowell, Natalie Payne, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Ray Anthony Thomas, will begin Wednesday, July 20 at 8:15pm and conclude Thursday, July 21 at 8:15pm.

Leveling Up, directed by Wendy C. Goldberg and featuring Jessica Cummings, Evan Enderle, Stephen Ellis, and Ben Morrow, will have readings Friday, July 22 at 7:15pm and Saturday, July 23 at 3:15pm.

The evening of July 23 at 6 pm, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center will host its fourth annual Summer Gala, this year honoring our home town. A Celebration of the Town of Waterford will be held in the Sunken Garden on the O'Neill grounds, overlooking Long Island Sound. The evenings festivities will include cocktails, silent auction, dinner and performance. Tickets are still available, for reservations or more information contact Suzanne Hendrix, 860.443.5378 x217, or email shendrix@theoneill.org.

Additionally, Theatermakers, the summer program of the National Theater Institute will present three original one-act plays on Tuesday, July 19 at 8pm. These one-act plays are written, directed, and performed by Theatermakers students within a weekly intensive period of development. All Theatermakers performances are free and open to the public.

All performances take place at the O'Neill, 305 Great Neck Road in Waterford, Connecticut. Schedule is subject to change. Tickets may be ordered online at www.theoneill.org or through the box office at 860.443.1238. Discounted tickets are available for O'Neill Members, for more information, email Membership@theoneill.org or call 860-443-5378 x211.

ABOUT THE Eugene O'Neill THEATER CENTER

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964 in honor of Eugene O'Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the recipient of two Tony Awards, in 2010 for Regional Theatre, and in 1979 for Theatrical Excellence.

The O'Neill is the country's preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. The O'Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full production at other theaters around the world, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and major regional theaters.

O'Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, the Cabaret & Performance Conference, and the National Theater Institute, which conducts semester-long intensive theater training programs as well as Theatermakers, a six-week summer program.

The O'Neill also owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, boyhood summer home of Eugene O'Neill and setting for his plays Ah Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey Into Night. The museum is a registered National Historic Landmark and is open to the public during the summer season.

In addition to its Tony recognition, the O'Neill has received the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theatre Excellence, and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award. For more information, visit www.theoneill.org or email theaterlives@theoneill.org.

 

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