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…
Secrets of O’Neill’s Danville: History Walk
Sat., Sept. 21, 2:00 pm FREE Beverly Lane, former Mayor of Danville and local historian, leads a leisurely walking tour beginning at Front Street Park (also known as Eugene O’Neill Commemorative Park, featuring the plays written at Tao House) in downtown Danville.
One Festival, Two Countries: Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre
Festival Tour Packages 2019 The 2nd Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre, a partnership of the O’Neill Ancestral Trust of Ireland and the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House, is Oct. 9–13, again celebrating the Friendship Cities of Danville and New Ross. The Tao House production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes…
AIR Application Deadline
Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Program at Tao House Application Deadline: November 15, 2019 Developing or established playwrights, theatre directors, scholars, or critics of the performing arts are invited to apply for a 2020 fellowship of up to one month at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, Danville, California As a Tao House Fellow you will: Work in…
The Lost Plays
ANNOUNCING: lost plays now found Did you miss our live presentations of The Web, and Recklessness? Not to worry, you can watch them here: O'Neill's The Web O'Neill's Recklessness …
The Lost Plays
ANNOUNCING: lost plays now found Did you miss our live presentations of The Web, and Recklessness? Not to worry, you can watch them here: O'Neill's The Web O'Neill's Recklessness …
O’Neill Pop-Up Outdoor Birthday Party, Cottage Jewel, Danville
Friends and Members of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation Join a birthday party for Eugene O’Neill Friday, October 16, 5:00-7:00 pm A Covid-safe pop-up event in front of Cottage Jewel…
The Lost Plays
ANNOUNCING: lost plays now found Did you miss our live presentations of The Web, and Recklessness? Not to worry, you can watch them here: O'Neill's The Web O'Neill's Recklessness …