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Aurora — The Wells College Arts and Lecture Series presents a performance of Eugene's O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten" by Walnut Street Theatre. The performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 23, in Phipps Auditorium of Macmillan Hall. This event is free, and the public is welcome to attend.

"A Moon for the Misbegotten" is a touching and heartbreaking classic set on a Connecticut tenant farm in 1923. One of theater's most important and complex female characters, Josie Hogan, is a boisterous Irish woman with a quick tongue and a tarnished reputation who leads a hard and lonely life working the Tyrone farm with her bullying father. When James Tyrone Jr.'s mother dies, he returns to the farm to settle the estate and attempts to navigate his complicated relationship with Josie and her father.

Following the great success of "Long Day's Journey into Night," one of America's master storytellers is at the height of his prowess in "A Moon for the Misbegotten." Eugene O'Neill is a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and Nobel laureate. "Moon" is his final play and his only true love story. "A Moon for the Misbegotten" was published in 1943 and has been produced five times on Broadway as well as by theaters world-wide.

Founded in 1809, Walnut Street Theatre is the oldest continuously operating theatre in the United States. Over the past two centuries the Walnut's landmark theatre has been graced by some of America's most legendary performers including Marlon Brando, Sidney Poitier and Kathryn Hepburn. Its grand stage has housed a wide range of events, including circus, opera, vaudeville, dance and the first televised Presidential Debate between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter. A Moon for the Misbegotten marks Walnut Street's sixth national tour.

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