Death of a Salesman on stage

Death of a Salesman at The Young Vic, starring Wendell Pierce as Willy Loman


Linda Emond, Philip Seymour Hoffman (as Willy) and Andrew Garfield in Death of a Salesman on Broadway in 2012

Wendell Pierce and Arinzé Kene in rehearsals for Death of a Salesman at the Young Vic (2019), directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell. Pierce plays Willy Loman and Kene plays his son Biff

Miller’s play opened on Broadway in February 1949 and ran for more than 18 months

Lee J Cobb, centre, played the fading patriarch Loman in the Broadway production. Arthur Kennedy and Cameron Mitchell played his sons Biff and Happy respectively

Elia Kazan, left, and Miller on the Broadway set of the production

Dustin Hoffman (Loman), Stephen Lang (Happy) and John Malkovich (Biff) in a TV version of the play in 1985, following their appearances in Rudman’s Tony award-winning revival on Broadway a year earlier.

Brian Dennehy as Loman at the Lyric theatre in London in 2005

Ashley Zhangazha (Biff) with Don Warrington (Willy) in Sarah Frankcom’s 2018 production at the Royal Exchange in Manchester

Death of a Salesman at the Lyttelton in London in 1996: Alun Armstrong as Willy Loman and Louise Jameson as The Woman

Warren Mitchell won an Olivier award for playing Loman at the National Theatre in 1980

John Neville as Loman and Gillian Martell as Linda in a Nottingham Playhouse production directed by Michael Rudman in 1967

(From left) James Purefoy, Jude Law, Ken Stott (as Loman) and Ellie Haddington in a West Yorkshire Playhouse production directed by Matthew Warchus and designed by Rae Smith in 1994

Elia Kazan directed Salesman at the Phoenix theatre in London, in 1949, Paul Muni (left) was Loman, Katherine Alexander was Linda, Kevin McCarthy was Biff and Frank Maxwell played Happy