Death of a Salesman Reviews

Around The Town Chicago - Highly Recommended

"...One of the most memorable books I read in American Literature class was Death of a Salesman. On the surface, it’s the story of a hardworking, likable, easygoing salesman — Willy Loman — brought brilliantly to life here by Rick Yaconis. He’s a man chasing the postwar American Dream: marriage, family, a home, a steady job, and the sense of dignity that comes with it."

Third Coast Review - Recommended

"...Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is an American classic so excellent, so full of wisdom and raw emotion, that any production stands to be a helluvah show. Now at the Greenhouse Theater Center, the Gwydion Theatre Company provides its interpretation, directed by Scott Westerman. It’s a well-designed production with mostly strong performances, though weird interpretations and deviations from the show’s intent muddle what could be a greater show."

NewCity Chicago - Somewhat Recommended

"...Director Westerman does his own rearranging of chronology, staging the play's elegiac epilogue-Willy's sparsely attended funeral-as the prologue. It's a bold maneuver, one that unfortunately doesn't pay off, as it neutralizes the play's element of suspense. It also lessens the gut-punch impact of what should be the play's opening tableau, when a drained, demoralized Willy enters with his two sample cases-representing all the heavy baggage he carries with him, including a checkered conscience-and announces to Linda in his poetry-inflected Brooklynese, "I'm tired to the death.""