Three pillars of American playwriting in a single season — Miller with Nathan Lane, Wilson with Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, Auburn with Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle. For the subscriber who's here for the writing.
Death of a Salesman • Joe Turner's Come and Gone • Proof
Arthur Miller's defining American tragedy follows Willy Loman, an aging salesman whose grip on reality is slipping as the weight of failure, delusion, and love for his sons comes crashing down around him. A play that doesn't age because the American Dream doesn't age.
Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer, Joshua Boone, and Ruben Santiago-Hudson star in August Wilson's masterpiece, directed by Debbie Allen. A Pittsburgh boarding house in 1911 becomes a crossroads for souls still carrying the weight of what America did to them.
David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play centers on Catherine, daughter of a brilliant but troubled mathematician, as she confronts grief, her own mental health, and a question of intellectual legacy: who actually wrote the groundbreaking proof found in her father's desk after his death?