num_pages: 236
description: Eugene O'Neill was the first American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He completed The Iceman Cometh in 1939, but he delayed production until after the war, when it enjoyed a modest run in 1946 after receiving mixed reviews. Three years after O'Neill's death, Jason Robards starred in a Broadway revival that brought new critical attention to O'Neill’s dark play. In the half century since, The Iceman Cometh has gained in stature. Kevin Spacey and James Earl Jones have played Hickey. The Iceman Cometh focuses on a group of alcoholics who endlessly discuss but never act on their dreams, and Hickey, the traveling salesman determined to strip them of their pipe dreams.
language: English
title: The Iceman Cometh
titlecomplete: The Iceman Cometh
characters: Larry Slade, Theodore Hickman (Hickey), Ed Mosher, Moran, Cecil Lewis (The Captain), James Cameron (Jimmy Tomorrow), Margie, Pearl, Lieb, Pat McGloin, Piet Wetjoen (The General), Harry Hope, Rocky Pioggi, Hugo Kalmar, Willie Oban, Don Parritt, Chuck Morello, Cora, Joe Mott
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, American, Plays, The United States Of America, Nobel Prize, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 9813
places: Greenwich Village, New York City, New York
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Yale University Press