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For Lewis Wheeler, ‘Long Day’s Journey’ is laden with memories

The play is a work his father helped launch on Broadway

By Joel Brown

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 30, 2012

A cardboard cutout of Eugene O’Neill watches from a corner of the cluttered rehearsal room as actor Lewis D. Wheeler curls up on the floor, playing a character consumed by alcohol and sorrow in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.’’ But another presence hovers over the New Repertory Theatre production: Wheeler’s father David, a director and a huge figure in the history of Boston theater, who died Jan. 4 at age 86.

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