How two seedy old bars inspired a Broadway classic
The most depressing place in American drama may well be Harry Hope's Saloon, where "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's descent into dipsomania, takes place. "It's the No Chance Saloon," one character says of this lower Manhattan dive. "It's Bedrock Bar, the End of the Line Café . . . the last harbor. No one here...