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All The Drama is hosted by Jan Simpson. It is a series of deep dives into the plays that have won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama: “Strange Interlude”
1928 Pulitzer winner “Next to Normal”, by Eugene O’Neill
“Strange Interlude” Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Interlude
Eugene O’Neill Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill
Strange Interlude script:
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2563
The Eugene O’Neill Society
https://www.eugeneoneillsociety.org/
Eugene O’Neill Meetup: Drama, Self-Understanding, and Fun
https://www.meetup.com/arlington-theater-meetup-group/
“Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts” by Robert M. Dowling
https://www.amazon.com/Eugene-ONeill-Life-Four-Acts-ebook/dp/B00O56PUSM/
original review by J. Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1928/01/31/archives/strange-interlude-plays-five-hours-eugene-oneills-melodrama-begins.html
Critic at Large; A Theatergoer’s Impressions on Seeing ‘Strange Interlude’ After 35 Years” by Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/1963/06/18/archives/critic-at-large-a-theatergoers-impressions-on-seeing-strange.html
“Review: Shakespeare Theatre’s ‘Strange Interlude’” by Peter Marks, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/review-shakespeare-theatres-strange-interlude/2012/04/03/gIQAoYrwtS_story.html
“A Eugene O’Neill Marathon: 1 Actor, 1 Script, 5 Hours” by Alexis Soloskil The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/theater/david-greenspan-eugene-oneill-marathon-performance.html
“Review: 1 Actor, in 8 Roles, Wrestles Nuance From Eugene O’Neill’s ‘Strange Interlude’” by Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/theater/review-strange-interlude-david-greenspan-eugene-oneill.html
Strange Interlude movie, 1932
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Interlude-Norma-Shearer/dp/B085HM13CQ/
Excerpt off Glenda Jackson’s 1988 performance in Strange Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1msaQidf5XE
Groucho Marx’s parody: Pardon Me While I Have a Strange Interlude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omu_bePQ4Lc
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Broadway & Me
Jan Simpson is a theater journalist who writes the blog Broadway& Me and hosts the BroadwayRadio podcasts Stagecraft and All The Drama. She has twice served as a Pulitzer Prize juror.
