Bedlam’s provocative production of The Crucible has a purpose — to urge us all to stand up and shout down the devils in our midst.
Arthur Miller
Theater Review: A Tepid “Fall”
Fall’s conflict is presented with insufficient power; its domestic tragedy is not propelled along its inevitably troubling course.
Theater Interview: “Fall” — Probing Arthur Miller’s Secret
Why has Bernard Weinraub chosen this secretive chapter of Miller’s life as fodder for his play?
Theater Review: “Incident at Vichy” — The Vicissitudes of Guilt
Praxis Stage manages to get Arthur Miller’s message across, and it is a valuable one that must be repeated well beyond the inauguration.
Book/Theater Interview: Library of America Celebrates Arthur Miller’s Centennial
The Library of America has done its part to applaud Arthur Miller’s 100th birthday with a handsome 3-volume set of his plays.
Theater Review: Arthur Miller’s “Broken Glass” – A Boston Premiere For An American Master
The New Repertory Theatre is paying homage to Arthur Miller’s centennial with a superb staging of one of the dramatist’s later works, Broken Glass.
Fuse Theater Review: A First-Rate and Relevant Version of “An Enemy of the People”
Ibsen’s and Miller’s scientist hero must contend with denial, disbelief, ignorance, fear of change, malice, opportunism, greed, the abuse of power, censorship, betrayal, and violence. Sound familiar?
Theater Review: A Moderately Powerful “Death of a Salesman” from The Lyric Stage Company
A lack of dramatic combustion sometimes makes the Lyric Stage Company production, despite its intelligent detail, more staidly melodramatic than it should be.
Theater Review: “All My Sons” — An American Antique
If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. “All My Sons” was very much a product of the dramatist’s times and politics.
Theater Commentary: Isn’t It a Question of Relevance?
The reviews of the Huntington Theatre Company (HTC) production were generally ecstatic. And what could be timelier than an oft-produced American drama that focuses on the tragic costs of war profiteering?