Death of a Salesman

Opening on Broadway in 1949, Death of a Salesman won that season’s Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Tony Award, turning playwright Arthur Miller at the age of 33 into a national celebrity. Fifty years later, the Broadway revival production won Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Best Director of a Play, and Best Actor in a Play. Death of A Salesman continues to hold American theatre and its audience in its compelling grip because it speaks to our very hearts, to who we are and what we hold dear: our families, our sense of self-worth, our identity, and our basic need to have our existence matter.