NOMINATED FOR SEVEN TONY AWARDS
including BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
WINNER! BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY, BEST DIRECTOR OF A PLAY
DRAMA DESK AWARD
WINNER! BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
WINNER! BEST REVIVAL OF A PLAY
DRAMA LEAGUE AWARD
WINNER! MIKE NICHOLS
NEW YORK DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
“Revelatory and unforgettable. It broke my heart. A great work of art.”
THE NEW YORK TIMES
“The best ‘Salesman’ of my lifetime.”
THE NEW YORKER
“A titanic, thunderous ‘Salesman’.”
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
“The greatest production ever of the greatest play ever.”
W MAGAZINE
ARTHUR MILLER’S
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
CONCLUDES TRIUMPHANT RUN ON BROADWAY
PRODUCTION COVERED IN DAILY BEAST, CBS SUNDAY MORNING, DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK POST,
NPR TALK OF THE NATION, NPR MORNING EDITION, WALL STREET JOURNAL, BLOOMBERG NEWS,
LOS ANGELES TIMES, DEADLINE.COM, NEW YORK MAGAZINE IN FINAL WEEK
Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN concluded its triumphant run on Broadway on Saturday, June 2 at the Barrymore Theatre. The production recouped its $3.1 million investment and broke the house record at the Barrymore eight times.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN is nominated for seven Tony Awards, include Best Revival of a Play, Best Director of a Play (Mike Nichols), Best Actor in a Play (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Andrew Garfield), Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (Linda Emond), Best Lighting Design of a Play (Brian MacDevitt) and Best Sound Design of a Play (Scott Lehrer). DEATH OF A SALESMANhas won three Drama Desk Awards, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Direction of a Play (Mike Nichols) and Best Lighting Design (Brian MacDevitt), the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival of a Play, the Drama League Award for Best Revival of a Play and a NY Drama Critics Circle Award for director Mike Nichols for his contribution to the theatre.
Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN, was directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starred Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man) as Biff Loman.
Following are recent features about the critically acclaimed production:
Rebecca Miller on Broadway’s Death of a Salesman Revival
“I was quite little when I saw the first revival with George C. Scott as Willy Loman, but I remember him being very growly and manly. The productions starring Dustin Hoffman and Brian Dennehy were extremely powerful, but what’s most unique about Mike Nichols’s revival is that the actors seem to be living the play rather than simply playing their parts. Moments of sheer truth stretch on and open into pits through which the viewer must fall into the chasm of poetry that defines Death of a Salesman.”
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Q&A WITH PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
Sunday, May 27
Considered one of the best actors working today, Philip Seymour Hoffman has played a diverse set of characters, including the effete author Truman Capote, which earned him an Oscar. Mo Rocca talks with the actor, now on Broadway and nominated for a Tony for Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
Click here to watch the interview:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7409888n
Disappearing into Spidey’s Suit – interview with Andrew Garfield
Friday, June 1
Andrew Garfield is an actor on the verge of superstardom — and he’s only 28 years old.
Although Garfield may be best known to American audiences for playing Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network, Garfield started acting in England, where he grew up. There, Garfield made notable turns in the critically acclaimed Red Riding Trilogy as well as in Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Now Garfield is nominated for a Tony Award for his role as Biff Loman in a Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman that also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Click here to listen to the interview:
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/01/154088013/andrew-garfield-disappearing-into-spideys-suit
Andrew Garfield offers inside look at Death of a Salesman and Spider-Man
By Joe Dziemianowicz
Friday, June 1
As “Death of a Salesman” ends its run on Saturday, it exits the Barrymore Theatre with seven Tony Award nominations, including Andrew Garfield’s nod for Featured Actor. Not bad for his Broadway debut.
But even as the Tony celebration on June 10 draws close, Garfield, 28, who’s known for his film “The Social Network,” would rather discuss almost anything besides the Tonys — well, except for subjects remotely personal, including his girlfriend, Emma Stone.
“Awards are funny things, aren’t they,” he says. “I don’t know how to talk about it really.
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By Michael Riedel
Wednesday, May 30
Shortly before he died in 2005, Arthur Miller smiled at his daughter, Rebecca, and said, “Catch!”
What he threw her way was nothing less than his literary legacy, a body of work that includes some of the most celebrated plays of the 20th century — “All My Sons,” “The Crucible,” “Incident at Vichy,” “A View From the Bridge” and, of course, “Death of a Salesman.”
Judging from the success of the Broadway revival of “Salesman,” Rebecca Miller hasn’t dropped the ball.
Click here to read the complete article:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/guardian_of_legacy_1cw2ZCjVNSLfHYN95ejSgK
BLOOMBERG NEWS
Mike Nichols remembers Papa; Praises Miller
By Jeremy Gerard
Friday, June 1
Mike Nichols is up for a ninth Tony award next week for his quietly devastating revival of “Death of a Salesman.”
I met with the director a few nights ago at Bar Centrale, a Broadway watering hole. We spent the evening over drinks sharing stories about our fathers, who were no less present for being long dead.
Some tidal force kept the conversation ebbing between longing memory and sharp reality. To that extent, the shadow of playwright Arthur Miller loomed over our conversation.
For “Salesman” is, above all, the story of Willy Loman (played with shattering sensitivity by Philip Seymour Hoffman), a husband and father whose vivid happy memories cannot blot out his failures of achievement and, more important, of character.
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Wednesday, May 23
Mike Nichols has won every major entertainment award over a decades-long career that includes theater, comedy, television and film. He performed as half of the comedy team Nichols and May, won his first Academy Award directing The Graduate, and returned to Broadway with a revival of Death of a Salesman, which picked up seven Tony nominations. Nichols warns that the production may be his last.
“How do you follow Death of a Salesman?” he asks NPR’s Neal Conan. “I suppose I could add Long Day’s Journey into Night, but … I actually can’t think of anything [else I want to direct]. But I don’t need to. I’m perfectly happy at home.”
NPR’s Neal Conan talks with Nichols about his life and career and why he says directing his latest play has been as good a time as he has ever had.
Click here to listen to the interview:
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/23/153475131/mike-nichols-warns-death-may-be-his-last-job
Andrew Garfield is ‘getting on the fridge’ as Biff, Spider-Man
By Patrick Pacheco
Sunday, June 3
NEW YORK — Seeing as he grew up in the county of Surrey in southeast England and was called one of Britain’s rising stage actors at an early age, you might expect that Andrew Garfield has Sir Laurence Olivier as one of his role models.
But his adolescent hero was an entirely different kind of star: Muggsy Bogues, the short, quick, ball-stealing guard for the Charlotte Hornets NBA team in the 1980s and ’90s.
“I never wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be the next Muggsy,” recalls the 28-year-old Garfield. “I was skinny and short. I’m no longer short [6-foot-1]. But I’m still skinny. I’m OK with that now. But I struggled with it. It’s very weird to beat yourself up for being born in the wrong body.”
Feelings of displacement are central to two roles that have raised Garfield’s profile since his performance as Eduardo Saverin in “The Social Network”put him on the map. First, there’s Peter Parker in the forthcoming “The Amazing Spider-Man.” And then there’s Biff, the onetime football hero-turned-fugitive loser, in Mike Nichols’ Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”
Click here to read the complete interview:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-tonys-andrew-garfield-20120603,0,3800060.story
Wednesday, May 30
At age 80, director Mike Nichols has won eight Tony Awards, and is a frontrunner to add another with Death of a Salesman. The revival of Arthur Miller’s 1949 groundbreaking play is up for seven Tony Awards including Best Revival. Nichols chose Philip Seymour Hoffman for Willy Loman, the world-weary salesman on the downside of the American dream; Andrew Garfield as son Biff; Finn Wittrock as son Hap; and Linda Emond as Linda Loman. The show just became the rare straight play to crack $1 million for a week’s worth of performances, through the Memorial Day holiday. That is the seventh time the limited-run play broke the house record for the Barrymore Theatre. The limited run ends Saturday. Here, Nichols discusses a play which wears out its cast nightly but clearly has reinvigorated its director.
Click here to read the complete interview:
Mike Nichols on Bringing Death of a Salesman to Life
By Lauren A.E. Schuker
Tuesday, May 29
When it comes to American theater, there is one man to whom attention must be paid.
Since the 1960s, director Mike Nichols been steady presence on Broadway, winning eight Tony awards for eight of his productions. And his latest, a revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is likely to win him at least one more.
Since it opened in March, “Salesman” has become one of the most talked about plays on Broadway this season, achieving financial as well as critical success. The producers announced this month that the production had recouped its $3.1 million capitalization, just 14 weeks in, and that it will turn a profit before its close on June 2. The show, which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Linda Emond, and Andrew Garfield, has benefited from premium ticket pricing and a nearly sold-out run.
Click here to read the complete interview:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/29/mike-nichols-on-bringing-death-of-a-salesman-to-life/
Andrew Garfield on His Tony Nod, The Amazing Spider-Man, and That Weird YouTube Video
By Jennifer Vineyard
Monday, May 21
Andrew Garfield, who’s already won a BAFTA, may win a Tony next now that Death of a Salesman is the clear favorite for this awards season. The play scored a total of seven nominations, including Best Featured Actor in a Play for Garfield, for his portrayal of Biff opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Willy Loman. Garfield, of course, will also be your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man at the multiplexes this summer, so his Death run will be coming to a close on June 2 to give him some time for movie promotion. For now, he’s still trodding the Barrymore, even during a bout with bronchitis, for which he refused to cancel any performances earlier this month. Now that he’s on the mend, Garfield chatted with Vulture about his Tony nod, wanting a call from Samuel L. Jackson, and that weird YouTube video we came across recently.
Click here to read the interview:
http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/andrew-garfield-death-of-a-salesman-spider-man-interview.html
DEATH OF A SALESMAN originally opened on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre. Hailed as a masterwork of modern American drama, it won six Tony Awards, including Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the first play to ever win all three awards.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN also featured Finn Wittrock as Happy, Fran Kranz as Bernard, Bill Camp as Charley, John Glover as Ben, Remy Auberjonois as Howard Wagner, Glenn Fleshler as Stanley, Stephanie Janssen as Miss Forsythe, Kathleen McNenny as Jenny, Elizabeth Morton as Letta and Molly Price as The Woman.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN was produced on Broadway by Scott Rudin, Stuart Thompson, Jon B. Platt, Columbia Pictures, Jean Doumanian, Merritt Forrest Baer, Roger Berlind, Scott M. Delman, Sonia Friedman, Ruth Hendel, Carl Moellenberg, Scott & Brian Zeilinger and Eli Bush.
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