New York City Broadway Theater Guide

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Broadway Drama

Previews  April 26 2003
Opened May 6 2003
Limited Run to August 31 2003

Run 10 previews | 110 performances

Running Time  4 hrs | 2 intermissions

Tickets  $60 to $100

Prices do not include any taxes, service charges or other charges

Creative Eugene O'Neill author | Robert Falls director

Opening Night Cast Vanessa Redgrave | Brian Dennehy | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Robert Sean Leonard | Fiana Toibin

American family life. Sure, if your family is comprised of a disillusioned actor with a drug-addicted wife and a pair of sons, one alcoholic, one chronically ailing. Emotional bankruptcy is the undercurrent as we follow the Tyrone family through a grueling day into night. O'Neill's fourth Pulitzer Prize, America's masterpiece

Notes Long Day's Journey Into Night has a most distinguished Broadway history. Opening night of the American premiere was November 7, 1956 at the Helen Hayes Theatre (Not today's Helen Hayes Theater, the original was demolished in 1982.), and starred Florence Eldridge, Frederic March, Bradford Dillman, Jason Robards Jr and Katharine Ross. The play and Mr March received Tony Awards and the production ran for 380 performances

There was a two-performance revival at the Cort Theater in 1962 featuring four of the actors from the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden who had created in roles in the play's Stockholm world premiere in February 1956. The two shows at the Cort were performed in Swedish

There were two distinguished revivals in the 1980s. The first featured Jack Lemmon and a young Kevin Spacey. It opened for a limited run at the Broadhurst Theater April 28, 1986. June 1988 brought a truly memorable Broadway experience: Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards Jr as Mary and James Tyrone at the Neil Simon Theater