In 1949, Death of a Salesman won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and a Tony Award for best play. This weekend, the Spencer Theatre Company brings the classic tale to Springfield. Directed by John Sivak, Death of a Salesman stars Jim Leach as traveling salesman William “Willy” Loman. The play is set in the last days of Loman, “who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the ‘American Dream’ kept him blind to the people who truly loved him.” The Hoogland Center calls the play “a thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theater.”
Death of a Salesman
Thu.-Sat., April 3-5, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., April 6, 3 p.m.
Hoogland Center f or the Arts, LRS Theatre 1
420 S. Sixth St.
hcfta.org
217-523-2787
$20-$22
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