Eugene O'Neill Theatre (New York). The Georgian‐style playhouse on West 49th Street opened in 1925 as the Mansfield Theatre, named after the actor Richard Mansfield, and housed a series of flops until 1934 when it struck pay dirt with the long‐running Tobacco Road. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp with 1,200 seats and a substantial backstage area, the playhouse has successfully presented both plays and musicals over the decades. It was renamed the Coronet Theatre in 1945, but when producer Lester Osterman bought it in 1959 he named it after playwright O'Neill, who had died six years before. In the late 1960s and 1970s playwright Neil Simon owned the O'Neill and presented a handful of his new plays there. But he sold it to Jujamcyn Theatres in 1982 and the company still owns it.
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
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The Eugene O'Neill Theatre is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 230 West 49th Street in midtown-Manhattan.
Designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp, it was built for the Shuberts as part of a theatre-hotel complex named for 19th century tragedian Edwin Forrest. It opened on November 24, 1925 with the musical Mayflowers as its premiere production. It was renamed the Coronet in 1945 and rechristened the O'Neill in honor of the renowned American playwright in 1959 by then owner Lester Osterman. It later was purchased by playwright Neil Simon, who sold it to Jujamcyn Theatres in 1982.
Notable productions
- 1934: Tobacco Road
- 1945: Dream Girl
- 1947: All My Sons
- 1952: The Children's Hour
- 1953: The Little Hut
- 1955: The Bad Seed; A Memory of Two Mondays
- 1957: The Waltz of the Toreadors
- 1962: A Thousand Clowns
- 1963: She Loves Me
- 1966: The Odd Couple
- 1968: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- 1969: The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
- 1971: The Prisoner of Second Avenue
- 1973: The Good Doctor
- 1974: God's Favorite
- 1975: Yentl
- 1976: California Suite
- 1979: Chapter Two
- 1980: I Ought to Be in Pictures
- 1981: Annie
- 1982: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
- 1985: Big River
- 1988: M. Butterfly
- 1991: La Bête
- 1992: Five Guys Named Moe
- 1994: Grease
- 1999: Death of a Salesman
- 2000: The Full Monty
- 2003: Nine
- 2004: Caroline, or Change
- 2005: Good Vibrations; Sweeney Todd
- 2006: Spring Awakening
- 2009: 33 Variations; Fela!
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Mentioned in
- Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (American Theater)
- The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (American Theater)
- A Thousand Clowns (play)
- M. Butterfly (American Theater)
- The Prisoner of Second Avenue (American Theater)
- Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theatre Center (American Theater)
- The Hairy Ape (American Theater)
- Marco Millions (American Theater)
- Herbert J. Krapp (American Theater)
- A Thousand Clowns (Author Biography) (play)
- She Loves Me (American Theater)
- Alessandro Nivola (Actor, Drama/Comedy Drama)
- A Moon for the Misbegotten (American Theater)
- She Loves Me, musical (Classical Work)
