The cast led by Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf is superb, and so is the show’s secret star: the lighting.

A worthwhile revival will always give you the feeling — even more significant than re-seeing an astonishing play — of truly hearing it, and that’s what happens here. Again and again, as Lane moved with desperate, waning vitality from home to office to an almost unbearably painful dinner out with his sons and back to home again, I caught myself flinching at Miller’s words, coming out of these actors with terrible freshness: “Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken!”