All My Sons - Broadway Reviews

All My Sons - Broadway Reviews

Posted by Steve at Theatregold.com on 6th May 2019

All My Sons - Broadway Reviews

All My Sons – Opening Night, Award-winning actors Annette Bening and Tracy Letts return to Broadway in the play that launched Arthur Miller as the moral voice of the American Theater. In the aftermath of WWII, the Keller family struggles to stay intact and to fight for their future when a long-hidden secret threatens to emerge—forcing them to reckon with greed, denial, repentance and post-war disenchantment across generations.

All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949 and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (to whom it is dedicated), produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman, and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. It starred Ed Begley, Beth Miller, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play was adapted for films in 1948 and 1987.

All My Sons

American Airlines Broadway First Preview 04, Apr 2019 Opening Night 22, Apr 2019 Closing 23, Jun 2019

Tickets Here at Roundabout

Reviews

New York Times 

AmNY 

Variety

 NY Daily News 

Entertainment Weekly 

Newsday 

Time Out NY 

Vulture 

Broadway World 

New York Stage Review

Cast

Annette Bening – Kate Keller Tracy Letts – Joe Keller Jenni Barber – Lydia Lubey Francesca Carpanini – Ann Deever Hampton Fluker – Broadway debut – George Deever Michael Hayden – Dr. Jim Bayliss Nehal Joshi – Frank Lubey Chinasa Ogbuagu – Broadway debut – Sue Bayliss Benjamin Walker – Chris Keller

Directed by Jack O’Brien

Creative

Set Design – Douglas W. Schmidt Costume Design – Jane Greenwood Lighting Design – Natasha Katz Sound Design – John Gromada Video and Projections – Jeff Sugg Hair and Wig Design – Tom Watson Original Music – Bob James


All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller’s then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio newspaper. The news story described how in 1941–43 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use. The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Sen. Harry Truman’s congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. Ryan, and Major William Bruckmann were relieved of duty and later convicted of neglect of duty.