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Birthday
Eugene was born on October 16, 1888, in Longacre Square, New York, NY. -
Began Writing Plays
In the fall of 1913, Eugene began to write plays. -
First Appearance
Eugene made his appearance as a playwright in the summer of 1916. In the quiet fishing village of Provincetown, Massachusetts. -
The Long Voyage Home
In the early days of World War II, the crew of the English cargo ship the SS Glencairn was sailing from the West Indies to Baltimore. Upon their arrival, their new cargo -- a load of dynamite -- puts the men ill at ease, as does the chance that there may be a Nazi spy on board and the general loneliness of seafaring. -
In the Zone
This play proved to be Euegene's first financial success. The play had a setting on a tramp steamer featuring all the sailors on board. -
The Hairy Ape
This play follows the unruly protagonist “Yank” as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. Angered that a rich man's daughter finds him beast-like and repulsive, he starts to deteriorate mentally. As he searches for belonging, we see the impact that wealth and social classes have on Yank. -
Anna Christie
Anna Christie tells the story of the title character separated from her father, reuniting with him in adulthood. Not knowing her daughter is now a prostitute, her father becomes enraged when she tells him of her troubled past. Anna falls in love with a sailor whom her father does not want her to marry. -
Marco Millions
The protagonist is a boy named Marco who likes to travel. He often secretly rides buses far from home, though only his telepathic sister finds out. One day, his sister sees strange lights in the basement, and she and Marco investigate. They find a portal into another dimension, and thus the adventure begins. -
Desire Under the Elms
The story of a farming family in mid-1800s New England. Inspired by the play Hippolytus by Euripides, it tells of the warring personalities of a father and son and how their mutual dislike is brought to a head by the powerful presence of the father's new wife. -
The Great God Brown
The action juxtaposes its two central characters, William (Billy) Brown, a mediocre architect, and Dion Anthony, a talented but dissolute artist. Both characters are in love with Margaret, who chooses Dion because she is in love with the sensual, cynical mask he presents to the world. -
Lazarus Laughed
The scenes portray a series of tests by the Jews, Romans, and Greeks to try the faith of Lazarus. Consequently, members of his family are taken from him, but Lazarus continues always to laugh, even to the very end, when the Roman Emperor Tiberius burns him at the stake. -
Mourning Becomes Electra
This play was set during the American Civil War, and the characters are modeled after the trilogy of Aeschylus. -
Ah, Wilderness!
A feel-good coming-of-age story about young Richard Miller, whose romantic woes shape the pl: whenen Richard is prevented from dating his neighbor Muriel, he goes on a drunken bender and attempts to woo the more worldly-wise Belle. -
The Iceman Cometh
It's about a group of drunks in a New York City bar in 1912. The group lives above a bar, and the most successful becomes sober. When he becomes sober, he reveals to the group that he is on the run after he murdered his wife. -
More Stately Mansions
A dark dramatic contest between idealism and the drive for material success. It has electrifying roles for two women who alternately hate, love, and misunderstand each other in the battle over the man who is the son of one and the husband of the other. -
Long Day's Journey Into Night
This play depicts a long summer day in the life of a family which is a dysfunctional family that is based on Eugene's real family. -
Hughie
A small-time gambler and big-time drinker makes his way back to Room 492. With a new night clerk on duty, he is forced to confront his personal demons and discover the real end of his story. Hughie is a rarely-seen theatrical masterpiece about the loneliness and redemption of one man chasing the American Dream. -
A Touch of the Poet
Proud and tempestuous Cornelius Melody (Con) owns a run-down inn and tavern near Boston in 1828. Laden with debt, Con clings to his tenuous identity as a landed gentleman and war hero and chastises his wife and daughter for actions that expose the family's humble Irish origins. -
A Moon for the Misbegotten
This play was Eugene's final work, and his failing health made it impossible for him to write. -
Deathday
Eugene died on November 27, 1953, in Kila Chand Honors College, Boston, MA. He died due to a rare form of brain deterioration.