Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne & More Begin Previews in Long Day's Journey Into Night on Broadway

The fog is settling around Broadway's American Airlines Theatre. Oscar winner Jessica Lange, Tony nominee Gabriel Byrne and more will begin performances on April 3 in Eugene O'Neill's masterwork Long Day's Journey Into Night. Directed by Jonathan Kent, the Roundabout revival, in association with Ryan Murphy, officially opens on April 27 and is scheduled to run through June 26.

The tale of an ordinary summer’s day with extraordinary consequences, O'Neill's play draws so heavily from his personal history that he requested it only be produced posthumously. The story centers on the Tyrones, a dysfunctional family with a drug-addicted mother, penny-pinching father and two troubled sons.

The cast also boasts Tony winner John Gallagher Jr. and Oscar nominee Michael Shannon. This will be the sixth Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning Long Day’s Journey Into Night since 1956; it was last seen on the Great White Way in 2003 starring Brian Dennehy, Vanessa Redgrave and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The play was adapted for the big screen in 1962, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson.

Long Day's Journey Into Night is part in Roundabout’s 50th Anniversary season, which also included Old Times and Noises Off at the American Airlines Theatre. She Loves Me is currently playing at Studio 54 through June 12 and The Robber Bridegroom is running at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre until May 29.