According to the NY Times, Nathan Lane will play the doomed salesman Theodore (Hickey) Hickman in the Goodman Theater’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s “Iceman Cometh” in spring 2012.
In a recent interview, Lane said that he had never been in a O’Neill play before but that he had long been fascinated by “Iceman”.
“It’s a good time in my life to do this — I mean, if not now, when?” he said. “Sometimes you have to dive into the deep end. And if the show is good, I get to defy expectations for those people who seem to think I’ve been working for Ringling Brothers all these years. It’s just, for someone who has long been overly concerned with what people think, it feels very good to take on something with complex, emotional twists and turns into a play with this much darkness.”
Written in 1939, “Iceman” is set in 1912 in a Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, where patrons await the arrival of their beloved Hickey, who surfaces newly sober and full of provocation.
“Iceman” will be directed by Robert Falls, the run is scheduled for April 22 to June 10 at the Chicago theater.
