They arrive at the theater in athleisure, in streetwear, typically in model. They come on foot, by subway, or by automobile service. Then they’ve an hour or two to alter. Literally, of course, by way of hair, make-up and costumes. Mentally, too, as they ease into character, assuming a brand new accent, a brand new…
To the Editor: Re “Why American Jews Still Weep for Willy Loman,” by Eric Alterman (Opinion visitor essay, April 18): Mr. Alterman’s wonder at why he and his father cried at “Death of a Salesman” (which I have done over the decades that I have seen the play) only confirms my long-held belief: that it…
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…
