A revelatory Denzel Washington in 'The Iceman Cometh'
NEW YORK - The prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope's saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause.
"The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 1912 before recovery became a national pastime, is an immersion in the world of sodden human wreckage. In this more or less posthumous realm, bums, tarts and bullies cling to their tattered hopes with the same death grip that they hold onto their whiskey glasses.
The new Broadway revival, directed by George C. Wolfe and starring a revelatory Denzel Washington as Hickey, a former drunk turned fanatical crusader, rises to meet the challenges of a play whose flaws are as conspicuous as its virtues. Combining high-spirited velocity with targeted psychological scrutiny, the production (at the Bernard
