Dennehy, Caldwell, Bosco and Naughton to Headline Free O'Neill Reading 12/11

Brian Dennehy, Zoe Caldwell, Philip Bosco and James Naughton are set to perform at a free reading marking the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, according to The New York Times. The event is schduled for Monday, December 11, at 7:30 PM at Circle in the Square Theater. Theodore Mann, the original producer of the play, and Paul Libin, a producer of O'Neill revivals, will serve as hosts. Elliot Martin, stage manager at the 1956 premiere production of Long Day's Journey, will speak.

The actors will perform scenes from both Long Day's Journey and A Moon for the Misbegotten, which will be revived on Broadway next spring by Kevin Spacey. Dennehy won a 2003 Tony for his leading performance as James Tyrone in Long Day's Journey and starred in a Chicago productions of The Iceman Cometh and A Moon for the Misbegotten. Naughton played Edmund Tyrone in a 1971 off-Broadway staging of the play.