Hilton Als: Nathan Lane in Robert Falls’s “The Iceman Cometh.”
Is Nathan Lane his generation’s Ethel Merman? While watching him take on the role of Theodore (Hickey) Hickman in Robert Falls’s complicated, intellectually bracing staging of Eugene O’Neill’s “The Iceman Cometh” (at the Goodman, in Chicago), I kept imagining Lane . . . (Subscription required.)