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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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Charles
McNulty

October 3, 2022

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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Chris
Jones

October 3, 2022

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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Wall Street Journal
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October 3, 2022

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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New York Theatre Guide
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Gillian
Russo

October 3, 2022

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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New York Stage Review
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Steve
Suskin

October 3, 2022

The acclaimed London production of Miller’s masterwork is admirable but not quite exceptional in transfer.

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Entertainment Weekly
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October 3, 2022

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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