Artists Rep Extends LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT to 9/5

Due to robust advance ticket sales Artists Repertory Theatre will extend the run of Long Day's Journey Into Night until September 5. The world-class production of Long Day's Journey Into Night comes to Portland, Oregon after playing to sold out houses for five weeks in Sydney, Australia. Artists Repertory Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company bring this Broadway-caliber international collaboration to Portland for a three-week engagement. Opening Night is August 14, 2010, with one preview performance August 13, 2010. Long Day's Journey Into Night runs August 13-September 5, 2010 at the Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon.

Long Day's Journey Into Nigh features Australian and American actors of the highest stature. William Hurt and Robyn Nevin lead an Australian and American cast, including Portland actor Todd Van Voris and Australian actors Luke Mullins and Emily Russell, in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. The play is directed by Andrew Upton who, together with his wife Cate Blanchett, is Sydney Theatre Company's Co-Artistic Director.

Long Day's Journey Into Night is considered Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece play and is a largely autobiographical work of gut-wrenching honesty. Over the course of one fateful day, the Tyrone family (three alcoholics and one morphine addict) sling barbs and reopen old wounds in their seaside Connecticut vacation home. With heartbreaking humor, the loving yet dysfunctional family battle to unearth and conceal a series of appalling truths to explosive effect. The emotional complexity of this family - gripped with addiction, haunted by the past and paralyzed by the future - delivers staggering insight on the themes of familial resentment, enabling, forgiveness and the bond of abiding love.

The cast of Long Day's Journey Into Night is appearing with the permission of Actor's Equity Association and the Media, Entertainment, and Arts Alliance pursuant to an exchange program between the two unions.

The 2010/11 Artists Repertory Theatre season is presented by U.S. Bank. The 2010/11 radio sponsor is KINK.FM. Season Hotel Sponsors are Hotel deLuxe and Mark Spencer Hotel. Long Day's Journey Into Night is supported by the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. Individual producers are Ronni Lacroute, Lynn & Jack Loacker, and Wayne & Sandy Ericksen. Media Sponsors for Long Day's Journey Into Night are The Oregonian, Oregon Public Broadcasting, All Classical 89.9 and OregonLive.

Long Day's Journey Into Night

By Eugene O'Neill

Director: Andrew Upton

Set Design: Michael Scott-Mitchell

Costume Design: Tess Schofield

Lighting Design: Nick Schlieper

Sound Design: Max Lyandvert

With actors William Hurt, Luke Mullins, Robyn Nevin, Emily Russell and Todd Van Voris.

Photo Credit: Brett Boardman