Today is the birthday of American playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene Gladstone O’Neill. The realist poet and master of vernacular would turn 124 if he were still magically alive today. O’Neill was born in Manhattan in a Broadway hotel room in Longacre Square, which is now known as Times Square. He was introduced to the dramatic world of theater at an early age, as his father was a successful touring act…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:35AM on October 16, 2014