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Herein, the full list of Tony Award winners. Winners are notated in bold typeface and with an asterisk. Best Play Eclipsed , written by Danai Gurira The Father , written by Florian Zeller The Humans , written by Stephen Karam* King Charles III , written by Mike Bartlett Best Revival of a Play Blackbird The Crucible Long Day's Journey into Night Noises Off A View from the Bridge *   Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Gabriel Byrne, Long Day's Journey into Night Jeff Daniels, Blackbird Frank Langella, The Father* Tim Pigott-Smith, King Charles III Mark Strong, A View from the Bridge Best Performance by An Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey into Night * Laurie Metcalf, Misery Lupita Nyong'o, Eclipsed Sophie Okonedo, The Crucible Michelle Williams, Blackbird Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Reed Birney, The Humans * Bill Camp, The Crucible David...

For Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night I give you a short review. The long journey is a day in the life of O'Neill's stand-in family, the Tyrones: patriarch James ( Gabriel Byrne ); matriarch Mary (Jessica Lange); older son James Jr, or Jamie ( Michael Shannon ), and younger son, Edmund ( John Gallagher, Jr .), who is, most agree, O'Neill himself. (The Tyrone family maid, Cathleen ( Colby Minifie ), is also around here and there.) In this personal work, O'Neill revisits his family to work through, understand, or maybe exorcise something from his past. Maybe's it's his tumultuous relationship with his father or brother, or maybe (probably) it's his elusive mother, who, in Long Day's Journey Into Night , is a dope fiend who slips in and out of reality. Plenty of people will tell you that plays are meant to be heard and seen, not read. Arguably, that rings true for Shakespeare, Albee, Pinter, Beckett, and others. Reading anoth...