An Interview with Long Day’s Journey Into Night’s Colby Minifie. On the evening of November 7, 1956, after the final curtain dropped on the New York premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical masterwork Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the air in the Helen Hayes Theatre was strangely still. After more than a minute of hushed silence, the audience slowly rose to its feet, … [Read more...] about The Maid Behind the Mayhem