From the right, Willy Loman, the Salesman, enters, carrying two large sample cases … Even as he crosses the stage to the doorway of the house, his exhaustion is apparent.
In a co-presentation with NYPL’s Schomburg Center, the stars of the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman—Wendell Pierce (Willy Loman) and André De Shields (Ben Loman)—discuss the play’s legacy and their new production alongside its director Miranda Cromwell, moderated by Salamishah Tillet.
“So many of the elements of the play are fundamentally questioning of the American dream, and when you put that through the perspective of the Black experience, that enriches it,” said Cromwell. “The obstacles are harder, the stakes become higher.”