Marian Seldes- The nicest lady of the theater! (Maryann Lopinto photo)The O’Neill Festival at Ten
10 Nights of FREE Readings, Screenings and Musical Events
Featuring
Zoe Caldwell, Charles Durning, Brian Murray, Natasha Richardson,
Marian Seldes, KT Sullivan and Barbara Gelb
The Playwrights Theater, sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s O’Neill at Yale project, will present The O’Neill Festival at 10, ten days of free readings, screenings and discussions as well as a musical revue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the O’Neill. From January 4 – 13 this O’Neill celebration will take place at New York University’s Provincetown Playhouse (133 MacDougal Street). Reservations can be made online at www.eugeneoneill.net.
The film retrospective begins January 4 with Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Katherine Hepburn and Jason Robards. Successive evenings will have Geraldine Fitzgerald in Ah,Wilderness! (January 5), William Bendix in The Hairy Ape (January 6), The Long Voyage Home with John Wayne (January 7), Desire Under the Elms with Sophia Loren (January 8), Greta Garbo in Anna Christie (January 9) and finally, A Moon for the Misbegotten with Jason Robards (January 10). All movie screenings begin at 7pm.
Jan 11 at 7:30pm begins the live performance aspect of this festival. Tony winners Zoe Caldwell and Marian Seldes mark the 10th Anniversary by reading excerpts from plays where America’s only Nobel Prize winning playwright draws on his own mother for some of his most memorable characters. The evening, entitled O’Neill: Playwright and his Mother will conclude with a post reading discussion conducted by Barbara Gelb, pre-eminent O’Neill scholar.
Since this is the Festival’s 10th anniversary, January 12 at 7:30pm marks the return of The O’Neill Revue, an evening of parlor songs and sea chanties, the same program which launched the festival in 1998. Cabaret stars Steve Ross, KT Sullivan and actor Kristoffer Poluha will reunite to sing the songs heard in The Iceman Cometh and Ah!, Wilderness. Tony winner Charles Durning will make a guest appearance. Also featured is The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus from Yale, where this biographical concert is performed annually.
In 1998, the O’Neill festival commenced with the purpose of staging the playwrights’ complete canon, in chronological order, 50 works in all. His first 17 have been staged to date as either readings or productions. In The Zone and Ile will be the 18th and 19th plays to be performed.
10 Nights of FREE Readings, Screenings and Musical Events
Featuring
Zoe Caldwell, Charles Durning, Brian Murray, Natasha Richardson,
Marian Seldes, KT Sullivan and Barbara Gelb
The Playwrights Theater, sponsored by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s O’Neill at Yale project, will present The O’Neill Festival at 10, ten days of free readings, screenings and discussions as well as a musical revue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the O’Neill. From January 4 – 13 this O’Neill celebration will take place at New York University’s Provincetown Playhouse (133 MacDougal Street). Reservations can be made online at www.eugeneoneill.net.
The film retrospective begins January 4 with Long Day’s Journey Into Night, starring Katherine Hepburn and Jason Robards. Successive evenings will have Geraldine Fitzgerald in Ah,Wilderness! (January 5), William Bendix in The Hairy Ape (January 6), The Long Voyage Home with John Wayne (January 7), Desire Under the Elms with Sophia Loren (January 8), Greta Garbo in Anna Christie (January 9) and finally, A Moon for the Misbegotten with Jason Robards (January 10). All movie screenings begin at 7pm.
Jan 11 at 7:30pm begins the live performance aspect of this festival. Tony winners Zoe Caldwell and Marian Seldes mark the 10th Anniversary by reading excerpts from plays where America’s only Nobel Prize winning playwright draws on his own mother for some of his most memorable characters. The evening, entitled O’Neill: Playwright and his Mother will conclude with a post reading discussion conducted by Barbara Gelb, pre-eminent O’Neill scholar.
Since this is the Festival’s 10th anniversary, January 12 at 7:30pm marks the return of The O’Neill Revue, an evening of parlor songs and sea chanties, the same program which launched the festival in 1998. Cabaret stars Steve Ross, KT Sullivan and actor Kristoffer Poluha will reunite to sing the songs heard in The Iceman Cometh and Ah!, Wilderness. Tony winner Charles Durning will make a guest appearance. Also featured is The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus from Yale, where this biographical concert is performed annually.
In 1998, the O’Neill festival commenced with the purpose of staging the playwrights’ complete canon, in chronological order, 50 works in all. His first 17 have been staged to date as either readings or productions. In The Zone and Ile will be the 18th and 19th plays to be performed.
