Arthur Miller’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman, in a new production directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starring 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), making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman.
Let's get this out of the way at the top. Philip Seymour Hoffman is too young and soft to be the standard-issue iconic Willy Loman chiseled on the Mount Rushmore of American drama. Andrew Garfield seems too delicate and sensitive to be the Biff we know as the curdled former high-school quarterback and big Willy's golden-boy son. And none of that matters a bit in Mike Nichols' revival of 'Death of a Salesman,' a wrenching, powerfully inhabited production that honors Arthur Miller's 1949 masterwork -- complete with original sets and music -- while finding new shades of humanity all its own.
'Garfield plunges to the sea-floor bottom of this fractured father-son relationship and reveals unspeakable heartbreak throughout his perilous descent. Attention must be paid to such a performance, which not only supplies the production’s turbo-charged catharsis but also reminds audiences of the incredible power of great plays when they are inhabited by an actor willing to expose those primal wounds that in real life are just too painful to reopen. ... Garfield, in one of the most emotionally naked performances I’ve ever witnessed in the theater, lets us see the crippling weight of Willy’s overblown expectations. This young man becomes the play’s protagonist in a kind of Oedipal stage reversal that is thrilling to behold. ... Nichols’ painfully timely “Death of a Salesman” may have too many flaws to be one for the ages, but Garfield has made it one that I’ll remember for as long as I live.
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2012 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Mike Nichols |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bill Camp |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt |
2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | 0 |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Andrew Garfield |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Revival of a Play | 0 |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Mike Nichols |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Andrew Garfield |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Brian MacDevitt |
2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | 0 |
2012 | The Hewes Awards | Hewes Design Award | Brian MacDevitt |
2012 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding Debut Performance | Finn Wittrock |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Mike Nichols |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Brian MacDevitt |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Andrew Garfield |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Linda Emond |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Eli Bush |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Brian Zeilinger |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott Zeilinger |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Carl Moellenberg |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Ruth Hendel |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Sonia Friedman Productions |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott M. Delman |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Roger Berlind |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Merritt Forrest Baer |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Jean Doumanian |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Columbia Pictures |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Jon B. Platt |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Stuart Thompson |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott Rudin |
2012 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Scott Lehrer |
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