Iceman Cometh, The

American  

noun

1. a play (1946) by Eugene O'Neill.

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Example Sentences

Coming off several milestones the previous year — filming Jim Jarmusch’s “The Dead Don’t Die” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,” making his Broadway debut opposite Denzel Washington in “The Iceman Cometh” — the rising actor put all auditions and meetings on hold for the next five months to concentrate on landing the role of a lifetime.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Robinson’s other Broadway roles included gambler Joe Mott in the 1985 revival of “The Iceman Cometh,” the Eugene O’Neill drama.

From Seattle Times

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From Economist

Or, earlier that same year, Kevin Spacey's barnstorming performance at the Almeida Theatre in "The Iceman Cometh," the O'Neill epic that Mr. Spacey then took to the Old Vic and Broadway.

From New York Times

As one critic remarked bluntly of The Iceman Cometh: "The characters all start out as a bunch of drunken bums and finish the same."

From Time Magazine Archive