American Decades
The Iceman Cometh
" Iceman Cometh Has Its World Premiere at the Martin Beck"
Theatre review
By: Brooks Atkinson
Date: October 10, 1946
Source: Atkinson, Brooks. " Iceman Cometh Has Its World Premiere at the Martin Beck." The New York Times, October 10, 1946. Reprinted online at http://www.eoneill.com/artifacts/reviews/ic1_times.htm; website home page: http://www.eoneill.com (accessed February 25, 2003).
About the Author: Brooks Atkinson (1894–1984), an American theater critic and journalist, was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. Atkinson was an editor of The New York Times before becoming its drama critic in 1925. His tenure as the drama critic lasted until 1960, making him the dean of New York newspaper critics. On his retirement, he became the first...
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- "The Irresponsibles"
- Speech on the Dedication of the National Gallery of Art
- "I Got it Bad (and that Ain't Good)"
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- "The Life of John Brown" Series, No. 17
- What Is Modern Painting
- On the Town Caricature
- "Richard Wright's Blues"
- The Iceman Cometh
- "What Hollywood Can Do"
- "The Gangster As Tragic Hero"
- "Jackson Pollock: Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?"
- William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
- "The American Theatre"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
