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September 2019
Hills of Solace: Annual Hike to Tao House
Sun., Sept. 8, 9:00 am FREE A 3.1-mile hike from Front Street Park in Danville, along the Iron Horse Trail and into the Las Trampas Hills, led by National Park Service and East Bay Regional Park District rangers. At the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, tour Tao House, enjoy your brown-bag lunch at picnic tables, and hike back to Danville or catch the NPS shuttle. Please register by Sept. 5 HERE
Find out more »Long Day’s Journey Into Night opening night!
By Eugene O’Neill Directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes Presented by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House Old Barn, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, Danville A son’s looming health diagnosis and a mother’s drug addiction hang over the Tyrone family. The four wounded Tyrones confront the powerful and contradictory feelings they have for each other. Long Day’s Journey Into Night is considered by many to be the greatest American tragedy ever written. Purchase gourmet picnics, available before all…
Find out more »Secrets of O’Neill’s Danville: History Walk
Sat., Sept. 21, 2:00 pm FREE Beverly Lane, former Mayor of Danville and local historian, leads a leisurely walking tour beginning at Front Street Park (also known as Eugene O’Neill Commemorative Park, featuring the plays written at Tao House) in downtown Danville.
Find out more »October 2019
One Festival, Two Countries: Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre
Festival Tour Packages 2019 The 2nd Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre, a partnership of the O’Neill Ancestral Trust of Ireland and the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House, is Oct. 9–13, again celebrating the Friendship Cities of Danville and New Ross. The Tao House production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night directed by Eric Fraisher Hayes will join these Irish presentations: O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, a staged reading directed by Ben Barnes S.S. Glencairn sea plays aboard the Dunbrody famine ship replica…
Find out more »November 2019
AIR Application Deadline
Travis Bogard Artist in Residence Program at Tao House Application Deadline: November 15, 2019 Developing or established playwrights, theatre directors, scholars, or critics of the performing arts are invited to apply for a 2020 fellowship of up to one month at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, Danville, California As a Tao House Fellow you will: Work in the solitude of Tao House, in the creative atmosphere in which America’s only Nobel Prize–winning playwright produced his masterpieces (subject of fellow’s study need not…
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