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This Eugene O'Neill play may be short, but it sure packs a wallop. And with Jeff Duhigg's (Charley) physical expressions, this Hughie is every bit an intimate conversation. (read more...)
Eugene O'Neill is most renowned these days for his epic dramas, but the production of Hughie now at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC, offers an exquisite…
There's this guy shuffling around on the stage of the Lansburgh Theatre " just a guy. Small-time. Beige suit, kind of rumpled. Talks in slang about horse races and crap games. A loser, but w…
Some actors push their virtuosic energy boldly across the proverbial footlights, as if demanding audience members to listen, all but grabbing them by the throats. Then there are others who h…
Shakespeare Theatre Company has a quiet hit with Eugene O'Neill’s one-act Hughie. It is a deceptively simple production about an old guy, Erie Smith (Richard Schiff) who returns to his…
Richard Schiff is having a Toby Ziegler moment. "There are so many stories," murmurs Schiff, who played angst-riddled White House communications director Ziegler on the game-changing TV seri…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC presents Eugene O'Neill's Hughie beginning Jan. 31 at the company's Lansburgh Theatre. Emmy Award-winning actor Richard Schiff, re…
Actor Andrew Schlessinger and director Martha Demson spent more than a year preparing the production of Eugene O'Neill's two-character one-act Hughie, now at Open Fist Theatre. Schlessin…
This is one in a series of posts we are producing in connection with our new book Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, available from Bear Manor Media…
Michael Kahn, artistic director of the 2012 Tony Award-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, has announced a revision to the company's 2012-13 season. Eugene O'Neill's Hughi…
Shakespeare Theatre Company will present Eugene O'Neill's Hughie as part of its 2012-2013 season. The production will be directed by Doug Hughes and star Emmy Award-winner Richard …
Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2012-13 season will no longer include "Man and Superman," the George Bernard Shaw play that was to be directed by Aaron Posner. In its place will be Eugene O'Ne…
Time to order a double-double. The show called The Double is based on a Dostoevski novella of the same title, concerning one Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin. Or rather two Yakov Petrovich Golyadki…
David Ferrys use of surtitles helps flesh out the clerks character, too
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