THEATER
ONCE ON THIS ISLAND. Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons has an enviable record: many of its limited-run hits, including Driving Miss Daisy, The Heidi Chronicles and Falsettoland, have moved on to greater fame on larger stages. The latest gift, to Broadway, is this musical folktale about love and magic on a mythical Caribbean isle, with a calypso-flecked score that may remind some of Disney's The Little Mermaid.
THE ICEMAN COMETH. As O'Neill's bedeviled drunk turned reformer, film star Brian Dennehy (FX) gives a charming and chilling performance that rivals Jason Robards' definitive portrayal. But the surprises in the production at Chicago's Goodman...