Ensemble Theatre proudly announces its 46th Season production of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning American masterpiece "Long Day’s Journey Into Night", presented February 6–22, 2026 in the Marinello Little Theatre on the campus of John Carroll University, in University Heights.
This landmark staging brings together actors and production artists whose collective experience with O’Neill’s work spans more than four decades, deepening the emotional scope and authenticity of one of the greatest plays in American dramatic literature.
“O’Neill has always held a special place in Ensemble’s artistic legacy,” says Co-Director Ian Wolfgang Hinz.
“His work demands rigor, emotional vulnerability, and profound honesty, qualities our company has embraced for nearly fifty years. Returning to Long Day’s Journey Into Night in our 46th Season is both a tribute to our history and a commitment to the kind of theatre that shaped Ensemble from the very beginning.”, adds Co-Director Rebecca Moseley.
A Legacy with O’Neill from its earliest years, Ensemble Theatre has maintained a deep relationship with Eugene O’Neill’s works, including critically acclaimed productions of A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Iceman Cometh, Beyond the Horizon, The Hairy Ape, and Anna Christie. This 2026 staging furthers that legacy, offering audiences a rare opportunity to experience O’Neill’s most autobiographical and arguably most powerful play in an intimate venue.
Production Teaser
In the span of one single day, the Tyrones reveal their deepest wounds, addiction, resentment, longing, and a love that refuses to disappear. As fog rolls over the Connecticut shore, the family navigates a past that cannot be undone and a future that cannot be avoided. O’Neill’s masterpiece remains as piercing, relevant, and heartbreaking today as when it was first written.
“…a magnificent and shattering play.” (New York Post.) “It is a stunning theatrical experience.” (New York Herald-Tribune)
“This is O’Neill’s most beautiful play.” (New York Daily News)
“LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT has been worth waiting for. It restores the drama to literature and the theatre to art.” (The New York Times).
CAST
James Tyrone – Doug Sutherland
Mary Tyrone – Mary Alice Beck
Jamie Tyrone – Daniel Zalevsky
Edmund Tyrone – Michael J. Montanus
Cathleen – Mia Radabaugh/ Rebecca Moseley
Content Advisory: Strong Language and Themes.
Run Time: Approx 3hr & 45min.
(Includes (2) 5min and (1) 10min intermissions.
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