Death of a Salesman (play)

Fine acting makes Bay Theatre production worth 'The Price' of admission

2013-04-25 12:36:35

Bay Theatre Company in Annapolis caps its 2012-2013 season with Arthur Miller's "The Price," a play that may be among the lesser-known of his works but nonetheless strikes a nerve with contemporary audiences. Miller's rarely staged, insightful play...

Your ideas wanted for 'Broadway's Next Hit Musical' in Clayton on Saturday

2013-05-16 07:54:03

The performers in "Broadway's Next Hit Musical" don't have to worry about their show getting stale. "One of the reasons why it stays so fresh is that the audience constantly takes us to other places," said Greg Triggs, one of the four presenters in...

Dysfunction gets hot in 'August'

2013-05-09 13:54:03

Among other things, Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" includes characters with various addictions, a pedophile, incest, intergenerational resentment, extramarital affairs and suicide. "It checks all the boxes," Aaron Nichols says about the play, which...

On New York stages, a year full of letdowns

2012-12-13 13:27:00

The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'

2012-11-09 13:13:00

Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...

Looking ahead to the Tony Awards: An off year for musicals, but 'Once' deserves to win

2012-06-06 15:19:00

NEW YORK — What with "Ghost,""Lysistrata Jones" and other wearying disappointments, the 2012-13 Broadway season hardly will go down as a banner year for new American musicals. Indeed, should the best-musical Tony Award go, at Sunday night's...

The casting was messy, but show goes on for 'Odd Couple'

2012-11-07 14:21:00

Marc Grapey is not George Wendt. He knows this. In the Chicago theater world, Grapey is an extremely accomplished actor, having appeared this year in "Race" and "The Iceman Cometh" at the Goodman Theatre and in "Equivocation" at Victory Gardens Theater....

Curtain rises on Mad Cow Theatre's new home

2012-10-04 15:43:00

It has been a long time coming, but on Saturday Mad Cow Theatre will finally open its new Church Street digs — above Five Guys Burgers, a block off Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando. "You've probably heard us mention an opening date, then move...

Steppenwolf builds raw, aggressive 'Good People'

2012-09-23 19:31:00

In the most devastating scene of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," a young businessman named Howard fires Willy Loman, even though the past-his-prime salesman knew his new boss when Howard was still a baby. At least Willy gets his pink slip while...

Season Preview: Mad Cow Theatre

2012-08-01 14:21:00

Mad Cow Theatre's next season will combine classic plays such as"Death of a Salesman" with the big-name musical "Dreamgirls" and the just-closed Broadway offering"Other Desert Cities." It's a season high on name recognition with works by Neil Simon,...

Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'

2012-07-24 19:41:00

Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...

Actor James Corden, star of the National Theater's "One Man, Two Guvnors," won the lead actor Tony Award for the British comedy import. He beat out Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman." MORE: James Corden, 'One Man' and a plethora of talent

2012-11-13 11:36:46

Even as the web of "Spider-Man" stuck close to Andrew Garfield, he took time out to grab the spotlight on Broadway, playing Biff Loman in 2012's "Death of a Salesman" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for 16 weeks.

2012-02-27 00:00:00

Mike Nichols' Tony-winning revival of Arthur Miller's classic was wobbly in spots, but Philip Seymour Hoffman's Willy and Andrew Garfield's Biff found the emotional combustion when it mattered most.

2012-02-11 00:00:00