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Review: How the Black experience renews 'Death of a Salesman' on Broadway

NEW YORK — It's been a long time coming, but change has finally arrived on Broadway, where for the first time Willy Loman and his family are played by Black actors.

Los Angeles Times

Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway, starring Wendell Pierce, thrills in the present but struggles with the echoes of the past

NEW YORK — Arthur Miller would, it’s reasonable to assume, have been delighted at the idea of a Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” with an all-Black Loman family, especially with Wendell Pierce (”The Wire”) swinging for the fences in the starring role and Sharon D. Clarke playing the…

Chicago Tribune

Wendell Pierce calls ‘Death of a Salesman’ role the ‘high watermark’ of his career

“Whether people are seeing it for the first time or seeing it for the 20th time, I’m really happy that new audiences are going to come to it to see our perspective,” Pierce says.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Wendell Pierce calls his 'Death of a Salesman' a 'watermark'

Wendell Pierce hopes that heading a Black-led cast in a historic revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” goes beyond exposing the classic American play to a new audience

The Independent UK

Adrien Brody says Blonde is supposed to be a ‘traumatic experience’: ‘It’s fearless filmmaking’

‘It’s brave and it takes a while to digest,’ actor who plays Arthur Miller in the film said

The Independent UK

The Crucible review – stylish restaging is all beauty and no bite

Director Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller’s allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation

The Guardian - UK

The Crucible at the National Theatre review: Erin Doherty lights up the stage in this fresh revival

Lyndsey Turner’s production of a bona fide classic rolls over us with remorseless, implacable intent

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Some like it overheated: how Marilyn Monroe is betrayed by Blonde

Andrew Dominik’s explicit, button-pushing take on the life of the superstar uses shock tactics to replace insight and depth

The Guardian - US

Overwrought, overlong ‘Blonde’ depicts Marilyn Monroe’s life as a joyless nightmare

Netflix film has an arresting look, but too many visual and aural tricks fight for our attention.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Blonde’ review: Showbiz is a girl’s worst friend in Netflix’s oppressive Marilyn Monroe nightmare

Andrew Dominik’s “Blonde,” streaming on Netflix Sept. 28, is meant to be a tough sit, endured, more than a harsh, often miserable life, examined. Wrong mission. But mission accomplished.

Chicago Tribune

Blonde review – Ana de Armas gives her all as Monroe in otherwise incurious film

Glossy horror perpetuates the tradition of portraying the brilliant actor as an infantile, sacrificial sex-lamb on the altar of celebrity

The Guardian - UK

Queen 'felt sorry' for Marilyn Monroe after movie star's awkward mishap when they met

The late monarch met the Some Like It Hot star in 1956, where they enjoyed small talk about being London neighbours - but the iconic actress broke protocol with her outfit and left the Queen feeling sorry for her as she was so nervous

Daily Mirror

Blonde movie review: Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe drama does nothing to help reclaim its subject’s power

Ana de Armas embodies Monroe’s sexiness and vulnerability but is given frustratingly little chance to express her wit and intelligence

Evening Standard

What links Marilyn Monroe to Nick Cave and Vincent Gallo?

With Blonde coming to Netflix soon, follow the ultimate bombshell down the rabbit hole to find unlikely links to the singer and the actor

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Let armed vengeance be mine, Bishop Lamor Whitehead says after $1M Brooklyn church robbery — he wants clergy to carry guns

NEW YORK — The bling bling bishop wants to be the pistol-packing pastor.

The Guardian - UK

The myth of Marilyn Monroe: how her ‘sex bomb’ image buries the truth

Six decades on, the spectacle of Marilyn Monroe’s tumultuous life and death continues to hold us in its grip. With a major new biopic on the way, her biographer sorts fact from fiction

Daily Mirror

Ana de Armas looks just like Marilyn Monroe in new pictures released from film biopic

Blonde, starring Ana de Armas, is based on the bestselling novel by Joyce Carol Oates and is a fictionalised narrative of Marilyn's life

The Independent UK

Adrien Brody predicts ‘there’ll be some controversy’ with Netflix’s Marilyn Monroe biopic

‘Blonde’, starring Ana de Armas as Monroe and Brody as Monroe’s husband Arthur Miller, is released later this year

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The Guardian - UK

National Theatre to stage The Crucible with Erin Doherty and Brendan Cowell

Revival of Arthur Miller’s allegory is part of a new season featuring The Boy With Two Hearts and a 40-week tour of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Salon

Heartbreaking Marilyn Monroe doc moments

A series of conversations recorded by journalist Anthony Summers reveal more about the actor's tragic life

Chicago Sun-Times

The ladies in Willy Loman’s life take center stage in captivating ‘Wife of a Salesman’

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know Arthur Miller from Miller Hi-Life; “Wife of a Salesman” stands on its own.

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