Eugene O'Neill

Five Great Literary Landmarks of NYC: Taverns and Restaurants

The White Horse Tavern as it looks today Stay in one place long enough, many bars have found, and you're likely to eventually develop literary cachet. Indeed, many of the city's most venerable taverns - Old Town, McSorley's, and the currently-defunct Chumley's - are or were lined with the dust jac ... More >>

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The Too-Much City Arts Options? Why, Yes—We Have a Few.

"Do You Trust Your Mate?": A 1957 Magazine Quiz You're Totally Going to Take

Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Pageant magazine Date: October, 1957 Publisher: Hillman Periodicals, 535 Fifth Avenue Discovered at: Antique shop in Gas City, Indiana The Cover ... More >>

New Girl in Town: Happy Interlude

Eugene O'Neill gets a shot of musical good cheer

New Girl in Town

Beyond the Horizon: It Got Dark Early

At the Irish Rep, a novice O'Neill shows rare power

Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers

Tom PalumboJack Kerouac, on the road somewhere ...​ For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that ... More >>

Temporal Powers Lets Some Eire In

The Mint revives another rarely seen play by Teresa Deevy

Albee on Albee

At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do

The Emperor Jones

A Long Day's Journey Into Night Needs Rehab

The York Shakespeare Company abuses a classic

Clip Job: Who's Afraid of Andrew Sarris? (Maybe Mike Nichols Should Be)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 28, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 41 Films By Andrew Sarris "WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?" (at the Criterion and Loew's Tower East) has been hailed by some critics as a daring adventure for Jack Warner a dazzling vindication of Elizabe ... More >>

The Week in the Voice

​Why can't oh so enlightened New York pass a gay marriage bill? Is it the bible-beaters? The hardcore right? No, says Steve Thrasher, it's the chickenshit Democrats in the state senate. Rob Harvilla goes to Broadway! No, his parents aren't in town: there's a musical called Fela! about the fam ... More >>

West Africa Story: Fela! on Broadway

A fantastic new musical will soon find out just how fantastic it has to be to survive

This Week's Voice: Ciara and Chrisette Michelle, Bob Dylan, Outrage, Ben Greenman's Please Step Back, Stephin Merritt's Coraline, and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla takes a trip to the r&b salt mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michelle. Edd Hurt on Bob Dylan's Together Through Life, during most of which Dylan apparently carries a gun. Justin Farrar laments the end of USA Is a Monster. Brad Cohan anticipa ... More >>

Fallen American Idol Star at Gay Bar!

Much wood in B'way's Desire Under the Elms revival.

HARD TIMES

Perverse Interludes of Mourning Becomes Electra at Acorn

Eugene O'Neill endures a screwy production from the New Group

New American Playwrights Live by the Way of the Word

Adam Bock, Young Jean Lee and more make up a new breed of self-aware playwrights questioning what we know about language

Micheaux and Williams: Titans of 'Race' Cinema

At Anthology, silents and talkies that countered Griffith

Clip Job: When the Village WAS Bohemia

Clip Job: November 14, 1956

Letters

Burning Down the House

The literati get some heat in Brock Clarke's blazing comic novel

Rites of Passage

Acknowledging a mentor and questioning a tradition

Poetic Injustice

O'Neill's tragedy of self-delusion gets only intermittent touches of the poet's spirit

'The Ballad of Greenwich Village'

Watering the Off-Broadway Garden

The founder of the 'Village Voice' Obies recalls what led to their inception 50 years ago

Female Trouble

An all-star revival of Rabe's retro comedy of ill manners

Film

Time and tide: Class struggle on the New York waterfront

Don't Look Back

Where I Was From Finds Native Daughter Joan Didion Slouching Toward California Again

Ivo, Chekhov, No Nudes

Van Hove Tackles 'Three Sisters' at the Holland Festival

The Clarifying Fog

Integrity's Back on Broadway—Has Anyone Noticed?

Listings

An Immodest Proposal

Success Has Gotten Us Where We Are. Why Not Try Failure?

Bohemian Dreams

NY Mirror

Theater

Up the Academy

Shuttlecock Tragedy in Brooklyn

Anything in Your Shorts?

Orderly Anarchisms

NY Mirror

The Village People

Theater

Our Theatrical Century—II

Theater's Been in Flux All Century Long, So What's Left for It in the Next?

A Formalist Affair

Steal This Stage

The State of Women in Theater, 1999

Jazzmen Bloweth