The Iceman Cometh
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Nov 2, 2026
Nathan AginHOST
For years, he worked what he called the I-5 rep on the West Coast from Alaska to Arizona, hitting many theater companies and Shakespeare festivals in between and along the coast.
Nathan AginHOST
On Broadway, he's appeared in Execution of Justice, The Iceman Cometh, and The Man Who Had All the Luck.
Nathan AginHOST
And we talk about all of those shows.
Nathan AginHOST
In New York, he's also appeared at the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and Classic Stage Company.
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Nathan AginHOST
Well, and I know over the years, I mean, even with how busy you were doing film and TV, you know, there were still theater projects that came along.
Nathan AginHOST
And, I mean, a lot of people can justify not doing theater because they're so busy with film and TV or maybe the money or the creativity or whatever it is.
Nathan AginHOST
But, you know, you made choices to, you know, you did The Iceman Cometh and The Man Who Had All the Luck.
Nathan AginHOST
Right.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
He gets a part in the play that Dustin Hoffman characters really, really wanted.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
A new production of The Iceman Cometh.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
He bursts into his agent's office.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
His agent is played brilliantly by the former actor turned director coaxed back into acting yet again, Sidney Pollack in one of the great small parts in all of cinema.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
He gets a part in the play that Dustin Hoffman characters really, really wanted.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
A new production of The Iceman Cometh.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
He bursts into his agent's office.
Jordan HoffmanHOST
His agent is played brilliantly by the former actor turned director, coaxed back into acting yet again, Sidney Pollack, in one of the great small parts in all of cinema.
Alan MandellGUEST
I remember O'Neill's The One in the Bar.
Nathan AginHOST
Oh, The Iceman Cometh.
Alan MandellGUEST
The Iceman Cometh, yes.
Alan MandellGUEST
I remember we sat down.
Alan MandellGUEST
I had to write out all the women's parts at
Ken StrausGUEST
Well, I guess, you know, I guess my favorite theater memory would have to be, I always dream, a part that you always wanted to play your entire life and you finally get a chance to play it.
Ken StrausGUEST
And that was a few years back when I finally got a chance to play Hickey in the Iceman Cometh at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck.
Ken StrausGUEST
And that was, you know, a life goal of mine.
Ken StrausGUEST
I'm a big Eugene O'Neill fan.
Wallace ShawnGUEST
It almost had to be partly that unconsciously.
Wallace ShawnGUEST
They took me to, uh, The Iceman Cometh, which was also with Jason Robards.
Jonathan CakeHOST
Right.
Wallace ShawnGUEST
It was five hours long, and took place, as you know, entirely in a bar.
Jonathan CakeHOST
[laughs]
Wallace ShawnGUEST
I don't know.
Wallace ShawnGUEST
But they brought me to The Iceman Cometh.
Wallace ShawnGUEST
And then my, to put it mildly, because that was, like, one of the greatest experiences of my life.
Caroline AaronGUEST
I don't know if they will, if this will be so interesting, but it was so interesting to me.
Caroline AaronGUEST
I was doing The Iceman Cometh on Broadway, a Eugene O'Neill play that's five and a half hours long, and it was with the great Jason Robards in the starring role, and I don't, I've never heard of this happening before, but it happened.
Caroline AaronGUEST
There was a bird in the theater while we were on stage doing a performance, and it's ...
Caroline AaronGUEST
I was at a, like a player piano, 'cause it's obviously it's a period piece.
Rod MurphyHOST
He was a famed playwright and his autobiog- autobiographical masterpiece, Long Day's Journey into Night, was released in 1957 after his death.
Rod MurphyHOST
It is the most popular of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon in 1920, Anna Christie in 1922, Strange Interlude in 1928, Ah, Wilderness in 1933, and The Iceman Cometh in 1946.
Rod MurphyHOST
O'Neill died on November 27th, 1953 in Boston.
Rod MurphyHOST
He was born on October 16th, 1888 in a New York City hotel room.
Rod MurphyHOST
He was given this honor for, quote "for the powerful honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy," unquote, according to the Nobel Prize website.
Rod MurphyHOST
O'Neill completed The Long Day's Journey into Night in the early 1940s, but he refused to have this autobiographical play reproduced until long after his death.
Rod MurphyHOST
After several years of absence from the stage, in 1946, O'Neill returned one, with one of his most heralded works, The Iceman Cometh, a dark drama that explores the lives of a group of barflies.
Rod MurphyHOST
The following year, the playwright learned that he had the Parkinson's disease and found it im- physically impossible to write.
Charles KirschHOST
Backstage Babble is a podcast interviewing professionals in the theater industry about themselves, their careers, and the people they've worked with along the way.
Charles KirschHOST
And today, I am thrilled to be joined by two-time Tony-winning actress Katie Finneran, who has starred in Annie, Promises Promises, My Favorite Year, Noises Off, The Thanksgiving Play, The Receptionist, Two Shakespearean Actors, It's Only a Play, Mauritius, Cabaret, The Heiress, and The Iceman Cometh.
Charles KirschHOST
And now, without further ado, here's Katie Finneran.
Charles KirschHOST
Good to meet you, and congratulations, too, on The Receptionist, which was fantastic.
Henry GodinezGUEST
[laughs]
Jared BellotGUEST
... or the Completely Untrue Story of how Eugene O'Neill Wrote the Iceman Cometh with, uh, Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman was the biggest show in our history in terms of ticket sales, in terms of audiences through our door, both familiar audiences and new audiences to our, to our space.
Val WarnerHOST
And so how are you gonna beat that? W- can you give us a little preview of what's to come for this upcoming season? What w-
Henry GodinezGUEST
[laughs]
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