RIALTO CHATTER: Philip Seymour Hoffman to Star in DEATH OF A SALESMAN?

Michael Riedel reports in today's New York Post that talks are under way for Philip Seymour Hoffman to star in a Broadway revival of DEATH OF A SALESMAN, to be directed by Mike Nichols. He also reports that Linda Emond is said to be the top choice to play Loman's wife, Linda in the production which is aiming for 2011. 

Death of a Salesman is one of the undisputed masterpieces of Western theatre and a cornerstone of contemporary drama. It was also the first play to win all three major prizes: the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and New York Critics Drama Circle Award. Miller, in this moving and masterful piece, explores the heartbreaking deceptions and empty promises of the American dream through the eyes of Willy and Linda Loman and their sons Biff and Happy.

 

On Broadway Philip Seymour Hoffman has earned two Tony nominations, as Best Actor (Play) in 2000 for a revival of Sam Shepard's "True West" and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) in 2003 for a revival of Eugene O'Neill (I)'s "Long Day's Journey into Night". His other acting credits in the New York theater include "The Seagull" (directed by Mike Nichols for The New York Shakespeare Festival), "Defying Gravity", "The Merchant of Venice" (directed by Peter Sellars), "Shopping and F*@%ing" and "The Author's Voice" (Drama Desk nomination). He is the Co-Artistic Director of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York, for which he directed "Our Lady of 121st Street" by Stephen Adly Guirgis. He also has directed "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" and "Jesus Hopped the A Train" by Guirgis for LAByrinth, and "The Glory of Living" by Rebecca Gilman at the Manhattan Class Company.