José Benjamín Quintero

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Quintero, José [Benjamin] (1924–99), director. Born in Panama, he studied at the University of Southern California and directed summer stock before gaining attention with his sensitive stagings at the Circle in the Square, including a 1952 revival of Summer and Smoke and a 1958 revival of Children of Darkness. However, it was his work on Eugene O'Neill plays for which he is best remembered. These include the celebrated 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh at the Circle in the Square, the original Broadway production of Long Day's Journey into Night (1956), Hughie (1964), More Stately Mansions (1967), a 1973 revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten, and the lauded but commercially unsuccessful 1988 revival of Long Day's Journey into Night. Autobiography: If You Don't Dance, They Beat You, 1972.