A report on Eugene O'Neill

Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton
Portrait of O'Neill as a child, c. 1893
Birthplace plaque (1500 Broadway, northeast corner of 43rd and Broadway, New York City), presented by Circle in the Square.
O'Neill's first play, Bound East for Cardiff, premiered at this theatre on a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Time Cover, March 17, 1924
O'Neill in the mid-1930s. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936
The Chaplins and six of their eight children in 1961. From left to right: Geraldine, Eugene, Victoria, Chaplin, Oona O'Neill, Annette, Josephine and Michael.
Grave of Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill stamp issued in 1967
Statue of O'Neil as a boy, sitting and writing, overlooking the harbor of New London, Connecticut

American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature.

- Eugene O'Neill
Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton

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First edition 1956

Long Day's Journey into Night

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First edition 1956
Monte Cristo Cottage, boyhood summer home of O'Neill and the setting for two of his works, Long Day's Journey into Night, and Ah, Wilderness!
Window card for the 1956 Broadway production of Long Day's Journey into Night starring Fredric March and Florence Eldridge

Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in 1939–41, first published posthumously in 1956.

The home in 2018

Monte Cristo Cottage

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The home in 2018
Sign at the cottage

Monte Cristo Cottage (also known as Eugene O'Neill Summer House) was the summer home of American actor James O'Neill and his family, notably his son Eugene O'Neill.

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915

Provincetown Players

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Collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts.

Collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts.

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915
Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O'Neill on the ladder, Cook to the far right.
Scene in All God's Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair's hand, attracting national interest.
Susan Glaspell, playwright and one of the founders of the Provincetown Players.

Its productions helped launch the careers of Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, and ushered American theatre into the Modern era.

O'Neill as Abbé Busoni in Monte Cristo, 1893

James O'Neill (actor, born 1847)

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O'Neill as Abbé Busoni in Monte Cristo, 1893
Plaque in New Ross, County Wexford recalling his emigration to America in 1851
Poster for a 1900 theatre production of Monte Cristo, adapted for the stage by Charles Fechter, starring James O'Neill
Edmond Dantès (James O'Neill) loosens a stone before making his escape from the Château d'If in The Count of Monte Cristo (1913)

James O'Neill (November 15, 1847 – August 10, 1920) was an Irish-American theatre actor and the father of the American playwright Eugene O'Neill.

New London, Connecticut

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Seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.

Seaport city and a port of entry on the northeast coast of the United States, located at the mouth of the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut.

Fort Trumbull, originally built on this site in 1777. The present structure was built between 1839 and 1852.
New London in 1813
The Parade in 1883, with a railroad station built in 1864 at right (replaced by New London Union Station in 1887) and ferryboats in the river
One of the few remaining houses in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, June 10, 2007
49% of New London's area is water.
A statue of Nathan Hale in Williams Park
Mature Magnolia grandiflora on the north side of Bank Street (intersection with Montauk Avenue) in New London, Connecticut.
Population since 1810
Monte Cristo Cottage, boyhood home of Eugene O'Neill
The United States Coast Guard Band in 2013
The Garde Arts Center in 2013
Municipal Building on State Street in New London
New London Union Station, designed by H.H. Richardson
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, designed by Charles A. Platt
Harry Daghlian, a New London native who was the first person to die as the result of a radioactive criticality accident. A small memorial to Daghlian sits in a New London park.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, designed by Charles A. Platt
Municipal Building on State Street in New London (2013)

Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) lived in New London and wrote several plays in the city.

Theatrical release poster

Reds (film)

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1981 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.

1981 American epic historical drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.

Theatrical release poster

Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill.

Reed c. 1915

John Reed (journalist)

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American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

Reed c. 1915
The Harvard Monthly Vol. 44 (1907)
A native of Oregon, John Reed made New York City the base of his operations.
Reed c. 1917
Worker of the American labor movement, internationalist writer, John Reed. Stamp of USSR, 1987.
The cover of this 1919 British pamphlet emphasizes Reed's short-lived status as Soviet consul.
Cover of Reed's Voice of Labor, October 1919
German edition of 10 Days That Shook The World, published by the Comintern in Hamburg in 1922
Reed's body lying in state in Moscow
Red Square Mass Grave No. 5, inscriptions for Inessa Armand, John Reed, Ivan Rusakov and Semyon Pekalov

Early in 1916 Reed met the young playwright Eugene O'Neill.

Portrait of Bryant in 1913 by John Henry Trullinger

Louise Bryant

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American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917.

American feminist, political activist, and journalist best known for her sympathetic coverage of Russia and the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution of November 1917.

Portrait of Bryant in 1913 by John Henry Trullinger
Bryant in a sorority photo at the University of Oregon in 1909
John Reed, c. 1910–1915
Bryant sunbathing in Provincetown, 1916
Europe 1916, an anti-war cartoon by Boardman Robinson, appeared in the October 1916 issue of The Masses, a magazine for which Bryant had begun writing articles and poems that same year.
Katherine Breshkovsky, "grandmother of the revolution", was among the women Bryant interviewed in 1917.
Anna Louise Strong in 1918, the year before she arranged Bryant's national speaking tour, "The Truth About Russia".
William C. Bullitt, Bryant's third husband, who in 1933 became the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University, which houses the Bryant papers

Both she and Reed took lovers outside their marriage; during her Greenwich Village years (1916–1920), these included the playwright Eugene O'Neill and the painter Andrew Dasburg.

The John Golden Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and Booth Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District

Broadway theatre

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Broadway theatre, or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Broadway theatre, or Broadway, are the theatrical performances presented in the 41 professional theatres, each with 500 or more seats, located in the Theater District and the Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

The John Golden Theatre, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, and Booth Theatre on West 45th Street in Manhattan's Theater District
Interior of the Park Theatre, built in 1798
The Black Crook (1866), considered by some historians to be the first musical. Poster for the 1873 revival by The Kiralfy Brothers.
Sheet music to "Give My Regards to Broadway"
Victor Herbert
Broadway north from 38th St., New York City, showing the Casino and Knickerbocker Theatres ("Listen, Lester", visible at lower right, played the Knickerbocker from December 23, 1918, to August 16, 1919), a sign pointing to Maxine Elliott's Theatre, which is out of view on 39th Street, and a sign advertising the Winter Garden Theatre, which is out of view at 50th Street. All but the Winter Garden are demolished. The old Metropolitan Opera House and the old Times Tower are visible on the left.

The 1920s also spawned a new age of American playwright with the emergence of Eugene O'Neill, whose plays Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra proved that there was an audience for serious drama on Broadway, and O'Neill's success paved the way for major dramatists like Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Clifford Odets, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as writers of comedy like George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Williams in 1965

Tennessee Williams

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American playwright and screenwriter.

American playwright and screenwriter.

Williams in 1965
Tennessee Williams (age 5) in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Williams arriving at funeral services for Dylan Thomas, 1953
First page of the last will and testament of Tennessee Williams
Williams's grave, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.