HE will be swinging between tall buildings wearing Lycra this summer, but right now Andrew Garfield is a wreck. Wrapped up tight against the crisp afternoon in a hoodie and pea coat, he sipped camomile tea with honey during a recent interview in Chelsea, punctuated by coughing fits. Most people with bronchitis would be hauling themselves home to...
ARTHUR MILLER's ''Death of a Salesman,'' now on Broadway in a Tony-nominated revival -- and starring a heart-shattering Philip Seymour Hoffman as a Willy Loman for the ages -- is the most devastating portrait of punctured middle-class dreams in our national literature. Yet as I sat through a recent performance, I wondered why the play was revived...
''IT'S a little depressing.'' Thus opined a woman at a recent performance of the new Broadway revival of ''Death of a Salesman'' after the curtain fell on the first act. Hers was hardly an unlikely response from a theatergoer confronting for the first time -- or for that matter the third or fourth or fifth -- Arthur Miller's often harrowing...
Arthur Asher Miller (17. oktober 1915 – 10. februar 2005) var en amerikansk forfatter og dramatiker. Han var verdensberømt for skuespil som f.eks. En sælgers død (eng. Death of a Salesman, 1949); opført på Det kongelige Teater i 1950 og Heksejagt (eng. The Crucible, 1953) samt for giftermålet med Marilyn Monroe i 1956. Han døde 89 år gammel i Roxbury, Connecticut.