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" 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...