Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, perhaps the great American tragedy, gets a major new revival with Miranda Cromwell’s West End transfer at the Hudson Theatre. Cromwell (who shared directorial credit with Marianne Elliott during the show’s run at the Young Vic) understands that action and inaction, not happenstance, determine one’s lot in life, and in Sharon D. Clarke and Wendell Pierce, has hired the perfect Linda and Willy Loman. (Khris Davis and McKinley Belcher III round out the troubled family as Biff and Happy). This is a perfectly paced, clearheaded reexamination of a the true secret of success: it eludes many.
