‘Death of a Salesman,’ With Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf, Is Perfect for Our Time
Just a few weeks into the primary run of “Death of a Salesman,” in 1949, playwright Arthur Miller wrote a piece for The New York Times with the headline “Tragedy and the Common Man.” The essay laid out Miller’s ambitions for his reminiscence play about a man-in-twilight, Willy Loman, which the paper’s critic Brooks Atkinson…