Joan Marcus The actress and her co-stars give powerful performances in a new production of the epic Eugene O?Neill play. Don?t miss it. Even when Jessica Lange is not physically on stage as Mary Tyrone, in the current Broadway production of Eugene O?Neill?s Long Day?s Journey Into Night, her specter hovers. The character of Mary is the querulous fulcrum around which the other characters orbit in Jonathan Kent?s beautifully and precisely realized production for the Roundabout Theatre Company?although her husband, James Sr., sons James Jr. (Jamie) and Edmund, and an Irish maid, Cathleen, are always on thin, unknowable ice with this matriarch.