August Wilson famously disavowed the idea of an all-black "Death of a Salesman." In 1996, he declared any such staging "an assault on our presence and our difficult but honorable history in America." Arthur Miller's antihero is no everyman, Wilson implied; Willy Loman is very specifically white. Critic John Lahr was inclined to agree: "To […]
SOURCE: Variety at 06:46PM on May 15, 2019