Williams Street Repertory's DEATH OF A SALESMAN Opens 4/22

Williams Street Repertory closes its 2015-2016 season with Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a man at the end of his rope. First produced in 1949, "Death of a Salesman" firmly established Miller's reputation as one of the premiere American playwrights.

A modern tragedy, the play follows twenty-four hours in the life of Willy Loman, a sixty-three-year-old traveling salesman, who for thirty-six years has sold his wares all over New England. Miller utilizes Loman's disillusionment with his life and career as a means to measure the enormous gap between the American Dream's promise of success and the devastating reality of the consequences of falling short.

"I'm excited to finally be directing this piece," admits founding artistic director Richard Kuranda, who had the pleasure of knowing playwright Arthur Miller personally and considers him a mentor.

"He was always honest with me as a young artist and I learned a great deal from him," reveals Kuranda. "I first met him while painting a sign at Signature Theatre on 42nd Street in NYC. A ten-minute exchange evolved into an 8-year relationship. He helped me identify my artistic and producing voice which I raised to champion new playwrights like Lin Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), Sam Hunter, Melody Cooper and JT Rogers."

"Arthur was an amazing artist who tirelessly worked to protect the core values of American Life in and out of the theater," Kuranda explains. "This play is an indictment of our capitalist society. Miller recognized the paradox of our great country, so filled with hope and promise; yet he deplored the cost it extracted on everyday people struggling to just get by. He saw inequity in the world and sought to shine a light on it through his work. I hope our production can carry the weight that Arthur intended."

Both a critical and popular success, "Death of a Salesman" has received a Tony Award, a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as being adapted several times for film and television. "Death of a Salesman" is widely recognized as Miller's masterpiece and is frequently listed as one of the canonical works of American drama.

Don't miss this quintessentially America tale presented by Williams Street Repertory at Raue Center for the Arts, April 22-May 15. Tickets on sale now.

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