All My Sons

Arthur Miller's first Broadway hit, All My Sons, is one of his most frequently produced plays among worldwide professional theater companies, American community theaters, and college and university theater departments. Surprisingly, since its premiere the World War II drama has had only two Broadway revivals. The 1947 debut, which starred Ed Begley, Beth Merrill, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden, won Tonys for Miller for Best Play (over A Streetcar Named Desire) and Elia Kazan for Best Director. The first Broadway revival in 1987, directed by Arvin Brown, won the Tony for Best Revival, and a 2008 avant-garde production, directed by Simon McBurney, starred John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson, and Katie Holmes in her Broadway debut. New York's acclaimed Roundabout Theatre offered two off-Broadway productions of All My Sons in 1974 and 1997. Luckily for 2019 theatergoers, the company decided to mount a major Broadway revival at its...