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Hughie playbill Jason Robards starred in the Broadway premiere of this one-act, two-character drama written in 1939 as a kind of epilogue to The Iceman Cometh. Robards would reprise the role in numerous revivals and for television as well. -
Formal portrait of Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill sitting at table Inscribed by O'Neill and Carlotta to Elsa and Terence (Holliday). In 1929, O'Neill and Monterey eloped to the Loire Valley in central France, where they lived in the Château du Plessis in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher, Indre-et-Loire. -
First edition of The Iceman Cometh O’Neill gave presentation copies of The Iceman Cometh to the cast and crew. This is one of two in The Hammerman Collection and is inscribed to production manager, Karl Nielsen. -
Eugene ONeill Symposium - Ronán Noone Talk by playwright Ronán Noone at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium. "The Joy is in the Struggle" While Long Day's Journey into Night is going on in the living room - what is happening in the kitchen? THIRST is the play that takes place in the kitchen of Monte Cristo Cottage during that fateful day in August, 1912. By using an upstairs/downstairs perspective, it opens a conversation with Eugene O’Neill’s classic family drama. Ronán Noone (Boston University), author of THIRST, discusses the process of creating the play while illustrating how the themes of deracination and immigration are considered essential to our understanding of O'Neill's work. -
Eugene O’Neill to Leon Mirlas Correspondence between O'Neill and Mirlas, and then, Carlotta and Mirlas, started in 1934 and lasted for many years. Much of it is present in the Hammerman Collection. Mirlas eventually translated most of O'Neill's plays into Spanish, and his translations were performed in both Argentina and Spain. -
Eugene O’Neill to Ernest Boyd Boyd was a critic who wrote that the ending of Anna Christie was the worst anti-climax in the theatre -- after one of the most tremendous third acts ever written. He also described O’Neill’s The Straw as depressing, unpleasant, and vulgar. O’Neill sent the “Happy Ending (?)” typescript, also seen here, with the letter. -
Eugene O'Neill, formal portrait, circa 1893 Eugene was James O’Neill’s and Mary Ellen Quinlan O'Neill’s third son but he was born in the wake of the death of their second son, which in both life and art gravely affected the relationships of the four surviving family members. -
Eugene O'Neill with arm around puppy, Marysville, California, 1893 O’Neill would have been four or five in this photograph. He had a lifetime affection for animals, especially dogs. -
Eugene O'Neill Typed letter to Carol Bird O’Neill is responding to an interview request by Carol Bird, of Theatre Magazine, which he declined but two years later did an exclusive interview with her for the magazine. O’Neill also references that the Police Department had just charged that The Hairy Ape is "obscene, indecent, and impure," and that a copy of O'Neill's manuscript had been forwarded to the Chief City Magistrate. -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - The First Man Talk Back Session Talk back session with the director and actors of a staged reading of The First Man by Eugene O'Neill at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 6, 2023. For complete play program go to https://wustl.box.com/s/ennnn2sidy5ak... CHARACTERS Curtis Jayson-------------------------------------------------------------------John Tessmer Martha Jayson---------------------------------------------------------Cynthia Lagodzinski John Jayson Sr.------------------------------------------------------------------Ben Ritchie John Jayson Jr.---------------------------------------------------------------------Roger Erb Lily Jayson---------------------------------------------------------------------Adrian Deane Richard “Dick” Jayson----------------------------------------------------------CJ Langdon Mark Sheffield-----------------------------------------------------------------Jason Meyers Uncle Edward----------------------------------------------------------------------Will Shaw Edward Bigelow--------------------------------------------------------------Craig Eychner PRODUCTION TEAM Director----------------------------------------------------------------Eric Fraisher Hayes Dramaturg--------------------------------------------------------------------Beth Wynstra Sound Designer-----------------------------------------------------------------Rob Evans St. Louis Casting Director--------------------------------------------Gwynneth Rausch -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - The First Man Act 4 Staged reading of The First Man by Eugene O'Neill at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 6, 2023. For complete play program go to https://wustl.box.com/s/ennnn2sidy5ak... CHARACTERS Curtis Jayson — John Tessmer Martha Jayson — Cynthia Lagodzinski John Jayson Sr. — Ben Ritchie John Jayson Jr. —Roger Erb Lily Jayson — Adrian Deane Richard “Dick” Jayson — CJ Langdon Mark Sheffield — Jason Meyers Uncle Edward — Will Shaw Edward Bigelow — Craig Eychner SCENES Act I: Living room in the house of Curtis and Martha Jayson, Bridgetown, Conn. An afternoon in early fall. Act II: Curtis’s study. Morning of the following day. Act III: The same. Three o’clock in the morning of a day the following spring. Act IV: Same as Act I. Three days later. Time: 1921 or The Present? PRODUCTION TEAM Director — Eric Fraisher Hayes Dramaturg — Beth Wynstra Sound Designer —Rob Evans St. Louis Casting Director — Gwynneth Rausch -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - The First Man Act 3 Staged reading of The First Man by Eugene O'Neill at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 6, 2023. For complete play program go to https://wustl.box.com/s/ennnn2sidy5ak... CHARACTERS Curtis Jayson —John Tessmer Martha Jayson — Cynthia Lagodzinski John Jayson Sr. — Ben Ritchie John Jayson Jr. — Roger Erb Lily Jayson — Adrian Deane Richard “Dick” Jayson — CJ Langdon Mark Sheffield — Jason Meyers Uncle Edward — Will Shaw Edward Bigelow — Craig Eychner SCENES Act I: Living room in the house of Curtis and Martha Jayson, Bridgetown, Conn. An afternoon in early fall. Act II: Curtis’s study. Morning of the following day. Act III: The same. Three o’clock in the morning of a day the following spring. Act IV: Same as Act I. Three days later. Time: 1921 or The Present? PRODUCTION TEAM Director — Eric Fraisher Hayes Dramaturg — Beth Wynstra Sound Designer — Rob Evans St. Louis Casting Director — Gwynneth Rausch -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - The First Man Act 2 Staged reading of The First Man by Eugene O'Neill at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 6, 2023. For complete play program go to https://wustl.box.com/s/ennnn2sidy5ak... CHARACTERS Curtis Jayson — John Tessmer Martha Jayson — Cynthia Lagodzinski John Jayson Sr. — Ben Ritchie John Jayson Jr. — Roger Erb Lily Jayson — Adrian Deane Richard “Dick” Jayson — CJ Langdon Mark Sheffield — Jason Meyers Uncle Edward — Will Shaw Edward Bigelow — Craig Eychner SCENES Act I: Living room in the house of Curtis and Martha Jayson, Bridgetown, Conn. An afternoon in early fall. Act II: Curtis’s study. Morning of the following day. Act III: The same. Three o’clock in the morning of a day the following spring. Act IV: Same as Act I. Three days later. Time: 1921 or The Present? PRODUCTION TEAM Director — Eric Fraisher Hayes Dramaturg — Beth Wynstra Sound Designer — Rob Evans St. Louis Casting Director — Gwynneth Rausch -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - The First Man Act 1 Staged reading of The First Man by Eugene O'Neill at the Eugene O'Neill Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis, October 6, 2023. For complete play program go to https://wustl.box.com/s/ennnn2sidy5ak... CHARACTERS Curtis Jayson — John Tessmer Martha Jayson — Cynthia Lagodzinski John Jayson Sr. — Ben Ritchie John Jayson Jr. — Roger Erb Lily Jayson — Adrian Deane Richard “Dick” Jayson — CJ Langdon Mark Sheffield — Jason Meyers Uncle Edward — Will Shaw Edward Bigelow — Craig Eychner SCENES Act I: Living room in the house of Curtis and Martha Jayson, Bridgetown, Conn. An afternoon in early fall. Act II: Curtis’s study. Morning of the following day. Act III: The same. Three o’clock in the morning of a day the following spring. Act IV: Same as Act I. Three days later. Time: 1921 or The Present? PRODUCTION TEAM Director — Eric Fraisher Hayes Dramaturg — Beth Wynstra Sound Designer — Rob Evans St. Louis Casting Director — Gwynneth Rausch -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - Katie Johnson Symposium Plenary Lecture, Katie Johnson (Miami University), author of RACING THE GREAT WHITE WAY: BLACK PERFORMANCE, EUGENE O'NEILL, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BROADWAY "Following the Archive" How can an archive influence how we think about theatre and performance? What is the relationship between the archive and performance (or, what Diana Taylor calls ‘the repertoire’)? What does it mean to follow the archive when writing about theatre and cultural production? And what can archival errors reveal to us? This presentation discusses how research in archives like the Hammerman Collection reshaped the contours of Katie Johnson's most recent book, RACING THE GREAT WHITE WAY. In following the archive, Johnson reveals lost histories, fresh stories, and a different way of thinking about O’Neill’s contributions in breaking color lines on the Great White Way. -
Eugene O'Neill Symposium - Formal Opening of the Harley Hammerman Collection Remarks at the formal opening of the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O'Neill, part of the Eugene O'Neill Symposium, October 6, 2023 at Washington University in St. Louis. See https://library.wustl.edu/events/eugene-oneill-symposium/ for more information.
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