Don’t waste time asking whether we really need another Death of a Salesman, and certainly don’t even begin to question whether Nathan Lane has the dramatic chops to tackle one of American theater’s great tragedies. Yes we do and of course he does.
Director Joe Mantello shines a new light on – or, more accurately, casts some new shadows over – Arthur Miller’s oft-produced masterpiece, taking the play (and us) out of the melancholy confines of that lived-in, empty-nest and famously “small, fragile-seeming” Brooklyn home “boxed in” by new apartment towers.
Instead, Mantello sets this revival starring Lane, Laurie Metcalf, Christopher Abbott and Ben Ahlers on the mostly bare, often dimly lit stage of Broadway‘s large Winter Garden Theatre (where it opens tonight, and where musicals more often fill the venue). It might be too pat to suggest that the stark, near cave-like environment mirrors Willy Loman’s dark
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