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…
broadway dug itself out of the winter doldrums final week, with productions resuming their full, no-snow-days schedules and whole field workplace and attendance rebounding 8% over the previous week to $28,123,874 and 238,988respectively. In all, attendance for the 28 reveals was at 91% of capability, up from 88% the earlier wintry week. Helping enhance the…
