Nights of O’Neill
January 18, 2008 9:48 am Great writers news“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 and KT Sullivan, will take place at the Provincetown Playhouse on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village from Friday through Jan. 13.
Presented by the Playwrights Theater and sponsored by the O’Neill at Yale project of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the festival will include the films “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” with Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards; “Ah, Wilderness!”; “The Hairy Ape”; and “Anna Christie,” with Greta Garbo. Live performances will begin on Jan. 11 with a program titled “O’Neill: Playwright and His Mother,” featuring excerpts from plays read by Ms. Caldwell and Ms. Seldes and a post-reading discussion conducted by the O’Neill scholar Barbara Gelb. The 10th anniversary presentation of the festival, begun with the intention of staging all 50 of O’Neill’s plays in order, will conclude with performances of the 18th and 19th: “In the Zone” and “Ile.”