Death of a Salesman (play)

2012 in review: Teamwork enlivens the theater world

2012-12-15 10:00:00

Could the theater artist of 2012 really be … Samuel Beckett? Well, the 1969 Nobel Prize winner had stiff competition this year from Anton Chekhov, dead for more than a hundred years but more alive than ever onstage. Chekhov's early play "Ivanov"...

Sherman Hemsley dies at 74; star of TV's 'The Jeffersons'

2012-07-24 19:41:00

Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of television viewers as Archie Bunker's bombastic black neighbor, George Jefferson, in"All in the Family" and later as the star of his own long-running sitcom, "The Jeffersons," has died. He was...

'Hunger Games': Philip Seymour Hoffman cast as Plutarch Heavensbee

2012-07-09 12:11:00

�Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has joined the cast of�"The Hunger Games" sequel "Catching Fire" as head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee, according to Lionsgate, the studio behind the movies. Hoffman will play the sly orchestrator of the 75th...

Tony Awards: 'Clybourne Park,' 'Once' are big winners

2012-06-10 22:09:00

Bruce Norris' "Clybourne Park," a sharp-toothed satirical drama about the vagaries of race and real estate, won for best play, and "Once," a starry-eyed romance centered on an Irish street musician and a Czech immigrant flower seller, topped the best...

Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo join Tony nominating committee

2012-06-18 11:03:00

Mary-Louise Parker, John Leguizamo and Cheyenne Jackson will be among the new faces joining the nominating committee for next year's Tony Awards. The committee decides on the Tony nominees by seeing all of the productions for the season and then voting...

James Whitmore dies at 87; veteran award-winning actor brought American icons to life

2009-02-07 00:00:00

James Whitmore, the veteran Tony- and Emmy-winning actor who brought American icons Will Rogers, Harry Truman and Theodore Roosevelt to life in one-man shows, died Friday. He was 87. Whitmore died of lung cancer at his home in Malibu, said his son,...

Your ideas wanted for 'Broadway's Next Hit Musical' in Clayton on Saturday

2013-05-16 07:54:03

The performers in "Broadway's Next Hit Musical" don't have to worry about their show getting stale. "One of the reasons why it stays so fresh is that the audience constantly takes us to other places," said Greg Triggs, one of the four presenters in...

Dysfunction gets hot in 'August'

2013-05-09 13:54:03

Among other things, Tracy Letts' "August: Osage County" includes characters with various addictions, a pedophile, incest, intergenerational resentment, extramarital affairs and suicide. "It checks all the boxes," Aaron Nichols says about the play, which...

Fine acting makes Bay Theatre production worth 'The Price' of admission

2013-04-25 12:36:35

Bay Theatre Company in Annapolis caps its 2012-2013 season with Arthur Miller's "The Price," a play that may be among the lesser-known of his works but nonetheless strikes a nerve with contemporary audiences. Miller's rarely staged, insightful play...

Norwalk Reflector, Ohio, Aaron Krause column

2013-04-24 07:24:03

"Death of a Salesman" Sunday WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday as well as 2:30 p.m. HOW WHERE MUCH : Toledo : $20 Reportoire for adults, Theatre $18 for , seniors 16 10th , $ St 5 ., for Toledo students 12 and more younger . Call , $10 (419 for )...

On New York stages, a year full of letdowns

2012-12-13 13:27:00

The year 2012, as Queen Elizabeth II might have said, was quite the annus horribilis on Broadway. Especially after the leaves started to turn. Consider the less-than-regal disappointments. "The Anarchist," the polemical new play by David Mamet, closed...

Movie makeup: The good, the bad and the 'J. Edgar'

2012-11-09 13:13:00

Attention, vampires. Later this week, while you're watching the final installment in the "Twilight" series, if the quality of the new film is consistent with the earlier films, well, you will probably find yourself wondering if it's just you or do all...

Actor James Corden, star of the National Theater's "One Man, Two Guvnors," won the lead actor Tony Award for the British comedy import. He beat out Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman." MORE: James Corden, 'One Man' and a plethora of talent

2012-11-13 11:36:46

Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman Who he is: Hoffman is an Oscar-winning actor who recently completed a Broadway run in "Death of a Salesman.

2012-08-22 13:49:00

Even as the web of "Spider-Man" stuck close to Andrew Garfield, he took time out to grab the spotlight on Broadway, playing Biff Loman in 2012's "Death of a Salesman" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre for 16 weeks.

2012-02-27 00:00:00