Eugene O'Neill News

Alley Theatre Artistic Director Gregory Boyd announces the cast and creative team for the Alley Theatre's production of the 2010 Best Play Tony Award Winner, Red.

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Seanachaí Theatre Company presents A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN by Eugene O'Neill, Directed by Kevin Theis, March 23 - April 29, 2012 in the Seanachaí space 3rd floor theatre, Irish American Heritage Center. Tickets: $24 Thursday/Friday; $28 Saturday/Sunday; $10 Previews. For tickets, call (866) 811-4111 or visit www.seanachai.org.

Producing Artistic Director Gwendolyn Whiteside of American Blues Theater (ABT), Chicago's second oldest Equity ensemble, today announced the Ensemble's 27th season. The season kicks off with the world premiere of Illegal Use of Hands by Emmy Award-winner, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and ABT Artistic Affiliate James Still, directed by Sandy Shinner, August 31 - September 30 and followed by the critically acclaimed It's a Wonderful Life: Live on State Street! , now at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, directed by ABT Artistic Affiliate Marty Higginbotham, November 16 - December 30. ABT's final 2012 -2013 production is Pulitzer Prize playwright Donald Margulies' 2010 Broadway script Collected Stories, co-directed by Steppenwolf Artistic Affiliate Jessica Thebus and Mary Ann Thebus.

The NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions will present a workshop production of the new show Pool Boy at the Provincetown Playhouse March 22 - 25. Directed by Steinhardt professor of musical theater, John Simpkins, the show features music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos, with book and lyrics by Janet Allard.

Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's depiction of American family life at the turn of the 20th century, kicked off the two-month citywide Eugene O'Neill Festival at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. From a playwright better known for his darker stories comes the brilliant Ah, Wilderness!, O'Neill's singular comedy that represents a fantasy of what his own childhood might have been. Helen Hayes Award winner and former Arena Stage Associate Artistic Director Kyle Donnelly directed her 21st show at Arena Stage, which features an almost entirely local cast led by Rick Foucheux, Nancy Robinette and June Schreiner. Ah, Wilderness! runs March 9-April 8, 2012 in the Fichandler Stage. Check out the opening night photos below!

THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, will celebrate its first anniversary on Broadway on March 24. In celebration of the show's first year on Broadway, the production today announced a free fan performance, which has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 6 at 2:00 PM, for entrants of the show's wildly popular ticket lottery.

Artistic Director Les Waters and Managing Director Jennifer Bielstein have announced the Actors Theatre's 49th season lineup. The 2012-2013 Brown-Forman Series, Waters' inaugural season at the helm, runs the gamut thematically from forbidden love and sibling rivalry to familial dysfunction and adolescent innocence in an exhilarating program sure to entertain, engage and delight audiences.

The South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theatre organization located in Camden, New Jersey, has announced its eighth season titled 'Home in Waterfront South,' featuring works written by Clifford Odets, August Wilson, Joseph M. Paprzycki and Eugene O'Neill.

How lucky we are in the DC area. Rich with culture, the region has an especially vibrant theater scene. Arena Stage is a prominent part of that scene and this year they are treating us to something special - The Eugene O'Neill Festival. Arena is working with other area venues to present the festival for two months. They have kicked off the festival with O'Neill's comedy, Ah, Wilderness!

The South Camden Theatre Company, a nonprofit professional theatre organization located in Camden, New Jersey announces its eighth season titled "Home in Waterfront South" featuring works written by Clifford Odets, August Wilson, Joseph M. Paprzycki and Eugene O'Neill. Opening the season October 26 - November 11 is "Indoor Picnic" a play set in Camden, New Jersey from the 1960's to the 1990's. The play is written by South Camden Theatre Company's producing artistic director Joseph M. Paprzycki and directed by Ray Croce. Starting January 18 - 20, 2013 is a special three show workshop production of the newly discovered "Exorcism: A Play in One Act" written by Eugene O'Neil and directed by Joseph M. Paprzycki. The work of Clifford Odets returns to our stage in "Awake and Sing" directed by Christopher 'Jumbo' Schimpf. The production will run from February 8 - 24. The season will close with August Wilson's "Radio Golf", directed by Connie Norwood the production will run from April 19 - May 5, 2013.

FELA! will play the Academy of Music for a limited engagement March 20 - March 25 as part of the Broadway Season, presented by The Kimmel Center and The Shubert Organization.

As the final of three mainstage productions during the two-month Eugene O'Neill Festival spearheaded by Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, Long Day's Journey into Night rounds out this celebration of O'Neill's life and work. The English-born and Canadian-based director and former Stratford Festival Artistic Director Robin Phillips makes his Arena Stage debut to direct his fourth production of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a theatrical career spanning more than 50 years.

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If you've never had the opportunity to see a rehearsal of a play, Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company is offering two free open rehearsals for Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude on Saturday, March 17 at 1:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Sidney Harman Hall.

Rory O'Malley, the Tony-nominated actor in THE BOOK OF MORMON, will be singing the National Anthem on March 18 before 15,000 runners competing in the seventh NYC Half Marathon.

The Shakespeare Players program of the Rochester Community Players (RCP) brings the tale of Timon of Athens to life!

The Shakespeare Players, a program of the Rochester Community Players, will be presenting William Shakespeare's Timon of Athens in March, 2012.

Robyn Berg directs the upcoming Nashville production of Dustin Lance Black's 8, a play chronicling the historic trial in the federal constitutional challenge to California's Proposition 8, presented by Rhubarb Theater Company on Monday, May 7, at Darkhorse Theater.

Previews begin tonight, Thursday March 15, for BEYOND THE HORIZON at the The Athenaeum Theatre 2936 N. Southport Ave. Chicago.