![]() The Hammond Mansion, "Ironsides", [1] in 2017 | |
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Address | 305 Great Neck Road Waterford, Connecticut United States |
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Type | Regional Theater |
Opened | 1964 |
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Walnut Grove | |
Coordinates | 41°18′37″N72°6′35″W / 41.31028°N 72.10972°W |
Area | 40 acres (16 ha) |
Built | 1822 |
Architectural style | Federal, Gothic Revival, et al. |
NRHP reference No. | 05001044 [2] |
Added to NRHP | September 21, 2005 |
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White. It is commonly referred to as The O'Neill, seating just over 1,000 guests. The center has received two Tony Awards, the 1979 Special Award and the 2010 Regional Theatre Award. [3] President Obama presented the 2015 National Medal of Arts to The O'Neill on September 22, 2016. [4]
The O'Neill is a multi-disciplinary institution; it has had a transformative effect on American theater. The O'Neill pioneered play development and stage readings as a tool for new plays and musicals. It is home to the National Theater Institute [5] (established 1970), an intensive study-away semester for undergraduates. Its major theater conferences include the National Playwrights Conference (est. 1965); the National Critics Conference [6] (est. 1968), the National Musical Theater Conference (est. 1978), the National Puppetry Conference (est. 1990), and the Cabaret & Performance Conference (est. 2005). The Monte Cristo Cottage, Eugene O'Neill's childhood home in New London, Connecticut, was purchased and restored by the O'Neill in the 1970s and is maintained as a museum. The theater's campus, overlooking Long Island Sound in Waterford Beach Park, has four major performance spaces: two indoor and two outdoor. The O'Neill is led by Executive Director Tifanni Gavin. [7]
The estate, also known as Walnut Grove or Hammond Estate, was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 21, 2005, for its architectural significance, and its associations with Revolutionary War Colonel William North and Edward Crowninshield Hammond, a wealthy railroad tycoon who frequently had the young O'Neill thrown off of the property when he owned it. [1]
The following is a list of plays, musicals, and performance pieces first developed at the O'Neill that have gone on to further success.
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