The Heights Players are marking the sixty-eighth year since the company’s establishment in the Brooklyn neighborhood where Arthur Miller lived from 1940 to 1956. In its inaugural season, the group staged The Crucible as its second production, and over the decades Miller plays have been a regular part of its repertoire that offers an eclectic selection of drama, comedies, and musicals mainly from the American theater catalog. Its permanent home since 1962 is an intimate performing space carved out of the basement of a Gothic Revival Chapel that was built in 1876 by the Unitarian Church. This season opened with Arthur Miller’s first Broadway success, All My Sons, and it was exciting to watch the play that Miller wrote in his apartment on Pierrepont Street, only a few blocks away.
With the continuous revival of Miller plays since his death, recent critics and theatergoers have realized that his great...