Irish plays that will make you laugh and cry

LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT

Eugene O'Neill

The author's autobiographical piece about his Irish actor father, his drunken brother Jamie, drug addicted mother, and his own T.B. and frustrations.

Here, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brian Dennehy, and Robert Sean Leonard in the 2003 performance of "Long Day's Journey into Night" at the Plymouth Theater in New York.

(Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
'Long Day's Journey into Night'