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Washington Post
“Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield are big hitters in Nichols’s ‘Salesman’….Garfield, who distinguished himself playing a Facebook co-founder in “The Social Network” — and is Hollywood’s next Spider-Man — asserts in his Broadway debut the bona fides of a stage actor of note. Biff, the ne’er-do-well Willy tries to believe in to the bitter end, is in Garfield’s jaw-set rendition both a mirror and a rejection of Willy. He’s inherited his father’s moral confusion; not for nothing does he absent-mindedly steal a pen from the desk of a prospective employer.”
New York Times
“Mr. Hoffman, Ms. Emond and Mr. Garfield all bring exacting intelligence and intensity to their performances. They make thought visible, but it’s the thought of actors making choices rather than of characters living in the moment. Their reading of certain lines makes you hear classic dialogue anew but with intellectual annotations.” Read the full story…
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Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman complains that his son Biff – played by Andrew Garfield – is a ‘lazy bum’.
Later on in the new production of Death Of A Salesman on Broadway, Willy’s wife Linda calls her younger son, Happy, played by Finn Wittrock, a ‘philandering bum’.
Those lines have always been in Arthur Miller’s classic play, but I just hadn’t heard them before.
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Andrew Garfield and the rest of the cast of Death of a Saleman will be live chatting tonight on WYNC. Click the link below to go to the live stream. The chat begins at 7pm eastern!
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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. Click here to purchase tickets!