Although I am disappointed that the Goodman’s stages remain dark, I am pleased to offer you the chance to stream a momentous and timely production from the theater’s history: Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
When it premiered in 1949, Death of A Salesman was a near immediate success, but its discussions about success were no new concept. What has changed since then is our broad understanding of—and reverence for—the American Dream.
Meet a few contemporaries of Arthur Miller—three 20th century Black playwrights who lived and worked at the same time, but who did not enjoy the same privileges in their career ascent.
Through Goodman Theatre GoodWork, our education and engagement programming, we encourage cross-generational conversations about the world around us.
America is a country founded by dreamers. Religious idealists, political experimentalists, gold-fevered opportunists all possessed faith in a better future. In America dreams come true if we try our best. All of us are believers.
Part of his immense legacy as a great American actor was Goodman Artistic Collective Member Brian Dennehy’s unforgettable turn as Willy Loman—a role for which he earned a Tony Award in 1999. Watch this video tribute to Brian Dennehy.
Howard Witt, born in Chicago in 1932, studied at the Goodman School of Drama (now The Theatre School at DePaul University) before launching a career that took him around the nation.
