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.
It’s uncommonly rare to watch a revival and suddenly attune yourself to the sound of weeping around you, the shaking of your hand as you take notes and, most important, to recognize that what you’re feeling must be very much like what audiences must have felt at the opening of a great new drama. But that’s what I felt at the critics’ preview of Mike Nichols’s magnificent revival of Arthur Miller’s 1949 epilogue for the American Dream, 'Death of a Salesman.
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Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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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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