Student Day 2019
Mark your calendars for Student Day 2019! Saturday, March 23 from 8:30 to 3:30 Join us for a FREE one-day Master Class in Acting, Playwriting or Photography. These creative workshops will be led by professional artists at Tao House, the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, CA, home of Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill. Open…
Danville Open Studios, May 11–12
Water-media artists, sketchers, and photographers are invited to discover the beauty of the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site and to do plein-air painting, drawing, and photography during Open Studios on Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12, as guests of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House and the National Park Service. It was at Tao…
10-day FREE Studio Retreat for students
Studio Retreat: a 10-day Masterclass in Playwriting and Acting for Teens The O’Neill Studio Retreat is a ten-day intensive for teens in advanced acting and playwriting at the beautiful Eugene O’Neill Historic Site, Tao House in Danville, California. This year’s camp runs from Wed., June 12 - Sun., June 23 (with no class on Monday…
Tips for Change Fundraising Event
Join Us for a Fundraising Dinner Bring Your Family & Friends! Monday, July 8 5:00-8:00 pm Announcing a Tips for Change fundraiser benefiting the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House. Make your own table reservations now at 925.820.6969 or online: giannissanramon.com/events/tips-for-change. Tips for Change is a fun way for local nonprofit organizations to raise funds. EONF volunteers…
20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival Opens!
Haunted Poets Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams The 20th Annual Eugene O'Neill Festival in Danville, CA will feature three plays – Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Glass Menagerie and The Second Girl – an Irish music concert, a guided hike to Tao House, a historic guided walk of O’Neill’s Danville and more.. PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR…
A conversation with Irish Playwright Ronan Noone
August 24 at 6pm Join us for a special opening night reception with The Second Girl playwright Ronan Noone. Now based in Boston, Noone, the author of nearly a dozen plays, will be joining us to discuss The Second Girl, his creative process and the plight of Irish immigrants. Beverages and bites will be provided.…
The Second Girl – two nights only!
By Ronan Noone Directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes Presented by The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House A staged reading at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley, Danville Set in the kitchen of the Tyrone family on the same day in 1912 that Long Day’s Journey Into Night takes place, The Second Girl…
S.S. Glencairn Sea Plays – three nights only!
BY EUGENE O’NEILL Irish actors from the O’Neill ancestral home of New Ross, Ireland, perform Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, and The Long Voyage Home aboard the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha and the 1890 steam ferry Eureka at Hyde Street Pier. Brought to the 20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival by the San Francisco Maritime…
The Glass Menagerie opening night
By Tennessee Williams Directed by Chloe Broznan Presented by Role Players Ensemble Village Theatre, Danville The Wingfield family lives in the shadow of the husband and father who left them. Struggling to get by, mother Amanda lives in her southern-belle past, son Tom lives for the day he can escape the bonds of a…
Soprano Clodagh Kinsella concert
Join us in Danville for an evening with Soprano Clodagh Kinsella and Pianist Keith Stears Concert: Irish Airs and Arias Irish soprano Clodagh Kinsella and pianist Keith Stears bring their unique interpretations to Irish airs and to opera arias. This new-generation duo interweaves their heritage and their classical training to pay homage to the old traditions in…
Hills of Solace: Annual Hike to Tao House
Sun., Sept. 8, 9:00 am FREE A 3.1-mile hike from Front Street Park in Danville, along the Iron Horse Trail and into the Las Trampas Hills, led by National Park Service and East Bay Regional Park District rangers. At the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, tour Tao House, enjoy your brown-bag lunch at picnic…
Long Day’s Journey Into Night opening night!
By Eugene O’Neill Directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes Presented by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House Old Barn, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, Danville A son’s looming health diagnosis and a mother’s drug addiction hang over the Tyrone family. The four wounded Tyrones confront the powerful and contradictory feelings they have…