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In
1974, the Eugene O'Neill Foundation saved Tao House in Danville,
California from a wrecker's ball, then raised funds to secure
the site where O'Neill wrote his most famous plays. Today,
the Foundation maintains the largest O'Neill research library
west of the Beinecke at Yale, and produces artistic and
educational programming on different levels including seminars,
conferences, workshops, cultural events, student programming,
exhibits, scholarly conferences, Playwright's Theatre, and major
theatrical performances.
The
archive at Tao House contains a large collection of photographs,
ephemera, play bills, manuscripts, posters, O'Neill's original
phonograph record collection, literary papers, audio and
videotapes of productions and interviews, as well as a broad
collection of books and other materials about O'Neill and the
American Theatre. Also available to scholars
are copies of Carlotta Monterey O'Neill's diaries from 1928
through 1944 and 1954 courtesy of the Beinecke. |
