04/09/2026
I’m pretty sure I haven’t seen an Arthur Miller play before tonight, although I may have seen the film version of The Crucible in 1996. Even so, Death of a Salesman (last night of previews tonight) is my true initiation into the world of Miller.
Wow, was this good. Toward the end of the second act, it became palpable to me that I was watching one of the great pieces of art created in the twentieth century. So powerful and, of all of the performances, from the leads down to the supporting cast, not a clunker in the bunch.
All of the leads are fantastic - give Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf their respective Tonys right now! For those fearful that Lane was miscast, fear not. He reads perfectly as the tortured washed up mess of a father (at age 63 - yikes!). Christoper Abbott (Biff) should be in the running for best supporting and Ben Ahlers (Hap), the cutie inventive butler from The Gilded Age, moved from tv to the stage with complete ease.
I can’t say enough about this production. Go see it!
