Arthur Miller’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman, in a new production directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and starring Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man), making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman.
Hoffman faces a big problem in that he’s 44 to Willy’s 60. It’s hard to buy him not only as a man nearing retirement age, but as the father of two grown sons. [...] Despite its central miscasting, the production is quite watchable. A big reason is the power of the play itself.
One must pay attention to a man even as inattentive as the loutishly bewildered Willy Loman, whom Philip Seymour Hoffman portrays so effectively in director Mike Nichols’s steel-girded Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” which officially opened Thursday night at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. In concert with Andrew Garfield’s embittered Biff, the drifting elder son of the defeat-racked Loman household, Hoffman finds a revealing new way into the psyche of a character Arthur Miller introduced 63 years ago as the damaged end-product of a system that leaves workers to sweep up after the ashes of their dashed hopes.
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| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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| 2012 | BroadwayWorld Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman |
| 2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Mike Nichols |
| 2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Bill Camp |
| 2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2012 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | 0 |
| 2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Andrew Garfield |
| 2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2012 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Revival of a Play | 0 |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Actor in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Mike Nichols |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Andrew Garfield |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Lighting Design (Play or Musical) | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2012 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play (Broadway or Off-Broadway) | 0 |
| 2012 | The Hewes Awards | Hewes Design Award | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2012 | Theatre World Awards | Outstanding Debut Performance | Finn Wittrock |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Direction of a Play | Mike Nichols |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Lighting Design of a Play | Brian MacDevitt |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Andrew Garfield |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play | Linda Emond |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Columbia Pictures |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Eli Bush |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Brian Zeilinger |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott Zeilinger |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Carl Moellenberg |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Ruth Hendel |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Sonia Friedman Productions |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott M. Delman |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Roger Berlind |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Merritt Forrest Baer |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Jean Doumanian |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Jon B. Platt |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Stuart Thompson |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Scott Rudin |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | Death of a Salesman |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Sound Design of a Play | Scott Lehrer |
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