Death of a Salesman
Opening Night: October 9, 2022
Theater: Hudson Theatre
Website: www.salesmanonbroadway.com
Following a critically acclaimed run in London, this vibrant and timely production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is now on Broadway for a strictly limited engagement. Olivier Award nominee Wendell Pierce (“The Wire,” “Jack Ryan”) and Olivier Award winner and 2022 Tony Award® nominee Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change; “Doctor Who”) reprise their roles as Willy and Linda Loman in a story told – for the first time on Broadway – from the perspective of an African American family. A new cast of supporting actors joins the production in New York, featuring Khris Davis (“Atlanta”), McKinley Belcher III (A Soldier’s Play), and Tony Award winner André De Shields (Hadestown). Directed by Miranda Cromwell – who won an Olivier Award alongside co-director Marianne Elliott for the West End and Young Vic productions – this powerful interpretation of Miller’s classic drama illuminates the dark underbelly of the American Dream and its elusive promise of equality and opportunity for all.
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October 9, 2022
Whether Death of a Salesman is a text you’ve chewed through many times over or something you’re exposed to for the first time, this is an eye-opening revival.
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October 3, 2022
Director Miranda Cromwell emphasizes the play’s expressionistic style (in which the past and present seamlessly converge in Willy’s mind) with a spare scenic design (with household items suspended from above on wires) and by having Willy’s flashbacks take on a stilted and dizzying quality, full of camera-like flashes.
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October 3, 2022
The Loman family has too much love and not enough money. Never has that been more true than in director Miranda Cromwell’s revelatory new revival of “Death of a Salesman,” which opened Sunday at the Hudson Theatre after its initial engagement at the Young Vic Theatre in London.
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October 3, 2022
The latest Broadway revival, which opened on Sunday at the Hudson Theater, goes wider, a notably rich and mostly successful approach. For the first time in a major New York production, the Lomans are played by Black actors.
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October 3, 2022
“Death of a Salesman” is one of the American theater’s finest works and, remarkably, Cromwell has taken an even sharper tool to it, toggling expertly between naturalistic and stylistic sensibilities.
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October 3, 2022
Boasting flat-out terrific performances – Wendell Pierce as Willie Loman and the amazing Sharon D Clarke as his wife Linda – this Death of a Salesman doesn’t so much reinvent Miller’s masterpiece as open its doors to perspectives that enrich the material.
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October 3, 2022
The message is clear: The world of this Salesman will form as easily as it breaks apart; so too the fragile bonds of family, place, position. “Life is a casting off,” Linda later tells Willy. This is the pitch, and this Salesman is selling it hard.
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At its best, however, this production brings a heightened societal awareness to an anguished family drama that is already unusually sociopolitically astute. A 21st-century Miller would no doubt approve of the progress of his evergreen critique of the American dream.
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October 3, 2022
Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke lead a version of Arthur Miller’s 1949 classic as heads of a hard-pressed Black family
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Pierce, you feel at every moment, is playing a man doing his best with the cards he was dealt…Truly, it’s a rich and moving star performance and the reason to see the show.
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Wendell Pierce leads a stellar cast in the first Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s play to center a black family in this tale of decline and despair.
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Casting Willy and his family as Black deepens the show, pointing to how opportunities for upward growth are not equally afforded to everyone, especially minorities. Performing this play, which was written and is set in the mid-20th century, today adds yet another layer of tragedy: Willy is only 63, a much more advanced age decades ago
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October 3, 2022
British, Cromwell nevertheless understands deeply that in the American mythos, tragedy is not a matter of fate but personal choice. Everything that happens to you is either the result of your own initiative or, conversely, your own fault.
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The acclaimed London production of Miller’s masterwork is admirable but not quite exceptional in transfer.
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As Linda, Clarke gives dignity and dimension to a character confined to the house and most often a bathrobe. The “long-suffering wife” is, by definition, a thankless role, but in Clarke, Linda Loman is a towering figure of strength whose love keeps her husband alive and her family together, and her suffering is a burden she willfully carries. Not one thrust upon her.
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October 3, 2022
Wendell Pierce’s powerhouse performance firmly identifies Willy Loman as a tragic hero for these modern times. It’s a searing portrait of a working-class man who has struggled all his life to achieve.
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