Hickey, a traveling salesman and perennial life of the party, doesn’t make his entrance until nearly an hour into show. The other characters, who had so eagerly awaited his arrival, wind up hostile to and disappointed with their usually inebriated pal, who has dared to go on the wagon and be really, really serious. Rest assured that you will not feel similarly let down by Mr. Washington’s center-of-gravity performance, or at least not by the play’s conclusion. PhotoMr. Wolfe’s energetic interpretation of this 1946 drama (which a friend of mind suggested should be retitled “The Iceman Rompeth”) is likely to be divisive. That means that in addition to being one of the longest of great American plays, “Iceman” is also one of the most repetitive.

Source: New York Times April 26, 2018 23:26 UTC