Author: iwellbc // Category:
Ensemble Theatre
Description
“Attention must be paid” to this abbreviated but superb 1966 television adaptation by Arthur Miller of his Pulitzer Prize-winning modern tragedy, starring the incomparable Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock recreating their original Broadway roles as the Lomans. In a career-defining performance, Cobb portrays the suffering Willy Loman–the middle-aged man at the end of his emotional rope–with Dunnock equally impressive as his patient wife, Linda. George Segal and James Farent… More >>
Death of a Salesman
Author: iwellbc // Category:
Ensemble Theatre
Description
This quintessential Chekhov drama–his first success–is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin (Frank Langella), an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre. Among the audience are Konstantin’s self-centered mother, the actress Arkadina, and her lover, the novelist Trigorin. Their glamorous pres… More >>
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull