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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Broadway West End
Highlights
120 mins 1940s/WWII Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle) Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes
Awards & Recognition
Drama Critics Circle Drama Desk Award Pulitzer Prize Tony Award
Nominee: Multiple 2026 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Play Winner! 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play Winner! 1999 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play Winner! 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play Winner! 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1949 Tony Award for Best Play Winner! 1949 New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play
Synopsis
Traveling salesman Willy Loman cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness.
Several tragic, soul-searching revelations – concerning his wife, his sons and his business associates – underscore how his quest for the “American Dream” kept him blind to the people who truly loved him.
Arthur Miller’s thrilling play – a work of deep and revealing beauty – remains one of the most profound achievements in the American theatre.
Press Reviews
"The most perceptive, most impressive and most moving play that we’ve had from America for a long time."
— The Daily Telegraph (UK)
"The play has tremendous impact because it makes its audience recognize itself. Willy Loman is everybody’s father, brother, uncle or friend, his family are our cousins; Death of a Salesman is a documented history of our lives. It is not a realistic portrait, it is a demonstration both of the facts and of their import. ‘We had the wrong dream,’ says Biff, Willy Loman’s son, and what Miller is saying in terms few can miss is that this wrong dream is one the greater part of America still cherishes."
— New Republic
"Mr. Miller has written a superb drama… rich and memorable… so simple in style and so inevitable in theme… Mr. Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of some ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and anguish to the theatre."
— Brooks Atkinson, The New York Times
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| Linda |
| Happy |
| Biff |
| Bernard |
| The Woman |
| Charley |
| Uncle Ben |
| Howard Wagner |
| Jenny |
| Stanley |
| Miss Forsythe |
| Letta |
| Willy Loman |
Videos
Death of a Salesman – Nathan Lane (2026 Broadway Cast) on ‘The View’
Publication
Death of a Salesman is a play written by Arthur Miller and published by Dramatists Play Service .
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