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.
It's a bit of a mystery why Nichols chose to cast the lithe and slender Garfield in a role that seems to call for more brute strength than athletic grace. The thesp is far better suited to his upcoming movie role as the new Peter Parker in 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' and the physical incongruity is disconcerting enough to put him at a disadvantage initially. But by the end of the first act, the actor is holding his own, and when Biff finally spurns his father's false values and asserts his own ideals, Garfield claims the moment and scores big-time.
The still-vibrant, still-powerful story of Arthur Miller's Willy Loman returns to a nation now emerging from a Great Recession, awash with consumerism, disgusted by greed and where audience members are striving pointlessly to be 'well liked' on Facebook. Crisply directed by Mike Nichols and starring a heartbreaking Philip Seymour Hoffman, this 'Death of a Salesman,' which opened Thursday at the Barrymore Theatre, is now a gloomy 63-year-old mirror – the same age as Loman is in the play – held up to the world to prove that little has changed. ... Hoffman will deservedly get attention for playing one of the most iconic American stage roles with vigor, but this production gets its heart and soul from Loman's wife, played with ferocious love by Linda Emond. She is holding this family together with her nails, watching her husband fall apart, taking his abuse, soaring with his hopes, playing interference between him and her sons, and generally walking on eggshells.
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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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