Growing up in Philadelphia, I had from childhood heard the story about the pre-Broadway opening of “Death of a Salesman” in 1949. A hushed silence filled the Locust Street Theatre as the curtain fell.

In the first biography of illustrious American playwright Arthur Miller since his death at age 89, University of Michigan theater professor Brater offers a concise study that, undivided by chapters ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, our essential morning briefing with trusted, nonpartisan news and analysis, curated by senior writer Benyamin Cohen. On May 2, 1949 ...

When he was a young, unknown playwright, Arthur Miller bristled over an early setback. In 1938, the Group Theatre was interested in his comedy “The Grass Still Grows,” about a coat factory owner and ...

Veteran biographer Martin Gottfried has been hard on some of his previous subjects, but the edge that made his portraits of Bob Fosse and Danny Kaye seem gratuitously nasty is nicely tempered here by ...

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Joan Copeland, the younger sister of legendary playwright Arthur Miller whose decades-long Broadway career included performances in two of her brother’s plays, died Tuesday at age 99. The actress, ...

A relationship in pictures: Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller. (All photos by Sam Shaw.) Voices: Norman Mailer, Shaw family. Marilyn Monroe's nude photograph by Leif-Erik Nygards Leif-Erik ...

ARTHUR MILLER: His Life and Work. By Martin Gottfried. Da Capo, $30; 480 pp. WHO could deny that Arthur Miller is one of America's greatest playwrights? That Death of a Salesman, Miller's masterpiece, ...

The Arthur Miller Journal provides a lasting legacy to Miller's significant contributions to American drama. The journal is published twice yearly under the auspices of the English department of St.

Joan Copeland, an actress whose Broadway career began in the 1940s and would include acclaimed performances in a 1976 revival of "Pal Joey" and in the 1980 premiere of "The America Clock," written by ...