Dennehy’s Menacing Farmer Looms in O’Neill’s ‘Elms’

Bloomberg.com: "With all his faults, Eugene O’Neill is still America’s foremost playwright. When he was in top form, his writing was unbeatable; when not, it could be anything from tedious to terrible. “Desire Under the Elms” (1924), now imported to Broadway from its Chicago triumph, is a torrid melodrama of murder and adultery, crazed love and mad hate, crude in many ways but undeniably theatrical."