Nick Offerman Will Star in Iceboy! Opposite Wife Megan Mullally at Goodman Theatre

Nick Offerman Will Star in Iceboy! Opposite Wife Megan Mullally at Goodman Theatre

The new musical comes to the Chicago company from the creators of Urinetown and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

March 03, 2026 By Meg Masseron

Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, Her) will star in the world premiere of Iceboy! Or The Completely Untrue Story Of How Eugene O'Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. The new musical from the creators of Urinetown and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee will run June 20-July 26 in the company's Albert Theatre. Opening night will be June 29. Marc Bruni (The Great Gatsby, Beautiful) is directing.

Offerman joins the previously announced Megan Mullally, who will star as Vera Vimm, with Offerman starring as Eugene O'Neill. With music by Mark Hollman (Urinetown), lyrics by Hollman and Jay Reiss (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and a book by Erin Quinn Purcell and Reiss, the work will see Mullally becoming Broadway star Vera Vimm, who adopts a 40,000 year-old Neanderthal from the Arctic only to reel when he begins stealing the spotlight.

“We are thoroughly excited to bring the heat of our marriage back to Chicago, the city where we both cut our theatrical teeth many years ago. Although we were hoping to mount a Tennessee Williams title, city officials reminded us that Chicago has developed an historical aversion to catching on fire and so we have agreed to this considerably less spicy but hilarious new musical called Iceboy!,” said Mullally and Offerman in a joint statement.

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