All My Sons – Broadway Reviews

All My Sons – Opening Night, Award-winning actors Annette Bening and Tracy Letts return to Broadway in the play that launched Arthur Miller as the moral voice of the American Theater. In the aftermath of WWII, the Keller family struggles to stay intact and to fight for their future when a long-hidden secret threatens to emerge—forcing them to reckon with greed, denial, repentance and post-war disenchantment across generations.

All My Sons is a 1947 play by Arthur Miller. It opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre in New York City on January 29, 1947, closed on November 8, 1949 and ran for 328 performances. It was directed by Elia Kazan (to whom it is dedicated), produced by Elia Kazan and Harold Clurman, and won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award. It starred Ed Begley, Beth Miller, Arthur Kennedy, and Karl Malden and won both the Tony Award for Best Author and the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play was adapted for films in 1948 and 1987.

All My Sons

American Airlines Broadway
First Preview 04, Apr 2019
Opening Night 22, Apr 2019
Closing 30, Jun 2019

After 19 Previews and 80 Performances

Reviews

New York Times
AmNY
Variety
NY Daily News
Entertainment Weekly
Newsday
Time Out NY
Vulture
Broadway World
New York Stage Review

 Cast

Annette Bening – Kate Keller
Tracy Letts – Joe Keller
Jenni Barber – Lydia Lubey
Francesca Carpanini – Ann Deever
Hampton Fluker – Broadway debut – George Deever
Michael Hayden – Dr. Jim Bayliss
Nehal Joshi – Frank Lubey
Chinasa Ogbuagu – Broadway debut – Sue Bayliss
Benjamin Walker – Chris Keller

Directed by Jack O’Brien

Creative

Set Design – Douglas W. Schmidt
Costume Design – Jane Greenwood
Lighting Design – Natasha Katz
Sound Design – John Gromada
Video and Projections – Jeff Sugg
Hair and Wig Design – Tom Watson
Original Music – Bob James

All My Sons is based upon a true story, which Arthur Miller’s then mother-in-law pointed out in an Ohio newspaper. The news story described how in 1941–43 the Wright Aeronautical Corporation based in Ohio had conspired with army inspection officers to approve defective aircraft engines destined for military use. The story of defective engines had reached investigators working for Sen. Harry Truman’s congressional investigative board after several Wright aircraft assembly workers informed on the company; they would later testify under oath before Congress. In 1944, three Army Air Force officers, Lt. Col. Frank C. Greulich, Major Walter A. Ryan, and Major William Bruckmann were relieved of duty and later convicted of neglect of duty.