Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S.

Barbara Gelb, an author and journalist who, with her husband, Arthur Gelb, produced the first full-scale biography of the playwright Eugene O’Neill, then followed it decades later with two volumes ...

Regional Theater Tony Award (Tony Awards) for and Best Play (Tony Awards) for The Piano Lesson. What awards has The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center won? The Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center has been ...

As a touring stage actor, James O'Neill exposed his son Eugene to the theater at an early age. As a playwright, his son would reject the kind of conventional melodrama his father starred in. So would ...

Robert M. Dowling’s thoughtful book restores balance to the slightly skewed 21st-century reputation of America’s greatest playwright. The ubiquity on world stages of Eugene O’Neill’s three crowning ...

Eugene O’Neill’s entire life revolved around the stage, and his productivity as a dramatist—some twenty long plays in less than twenty-five years (1920–1943)—remains a remarkable achievement.

An O'Neill to be celebrated: Irish American playwright Eugene O'Neill shone a light on ancient hatreds paving the way for a more open and tolerant society. He died on this day in 1953. Not long ago I ...

Turlough McConnell's "Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood": a portrait of a young genius in post-famine New York. In his dramatic presentation "Eugene O’Neill: An Irish-American Boyhood," noted ...

‘The intellect of man is forced to choose,” wrote Yeats, “perfection of the life or of the work.” Eugene O’Neill chose the work. A few of his biographers, regrettably, choose his life. The qualities ...

Adrienne Earle Pender knows why actor Charles Sidney Gilpin isn’t celebrated alongside Paul Robeson, James Baldwin, and other early pioneers of black theater in America. Alcoholism, she admits, was ...

How many shows has Eugene O'Neill written? Eugene O'Neill has written 40 shows including In The Zone (Playwright), Beyond the Horizon (Playwright), The Emperor Jones (Playwright), Diff'rent ...