Preview: Long Day's Journey Into Night at The Off Center [Theatre]

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill will be presented at The Off Center by Ar Rud, an Actors’ Equity Association “Members’ Project Code” production company. The Actors’ Equity Association Members’ Project Code enables members of AEA to produce work on a single-production basis without benefit of a union contract (read: all for the love). Admission is free, but a voluntary donation is suggested.

Considered O’Neill’s masterpiece, Long Day’s Journey into Night is his final work, published posthumously in 1956. The play depicts a single day in the life of the Tyrone family, closely modeled on O’Neill’s own family. The 1956 Broadway production won the Tony award and the New York Drama Critic’s Circle award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize in 1957. This haunting play illuminates many themes of O’Neill’s career: the meaning of family, addiction, and the lengths to which we will go to tell the truth or to keep it hidden.

This production is directed by Lucien Douglas, Associate Professor of Acting & Directing at the University of Texas at Austin. Appearing in the cast are long-time Austin theatre bastions Ev Lunning, Jr. as James Tyrone and Patricia Pearcy as Mary Tyrone. Also in the cast are David Gallagher as Jamie Tyrone, Nigel O’Hearn as Edmund Tyrone, and Rachel Dendy as Cathleen.

Long Day’s Journey into Night runs at the Off-Center May 28-June 7, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. For further information, call 512-637-1986.