Long Day's Journey into Night | New York Times Review of the 1956 Production
In the following excerpt, the author applauds both the play and the production, asserting: "Long Day's Journey into Night has been worth waiting for. It restores the drama to literature and the theatre to art.''
In the following excerpt from a review of Long Day's Journey into Night that originally appeared in the New York Times on November 8, 1956, Atkinson applauds both the play and the production, asserting: "Long Day's Journey into Night has been worth waiting for. It restores the drama to literature and the theatre to art."
As drama critic for the New York Times from 1925 to 1960, Atkinson was one of the most influential reviewers in America:
With the production of Long Day's Journey into Night at the Helen Hayes last evening, the American...
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