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.
But O'Brien creates two interracial families for the Miller drama, set in an otherwise realistically depicted 1947, without comment. Since 'All My Sons' is an indictment of capitalism, it's odd to have a byproduct of that economic system as practiced in the United States simply ignored here. This revival acts as if racism didn't exist among these kinds of characters at that time, which isn't that far away from Joe Keller's attitude regarding his crime.
As for how this production judges Joe, it's hard to ignore that Letts bears an eerie resemblance to capitalist warmonger and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Yet even as Joe is careening toward his inevitable fall, he never loses our sympathy. It seems selfish to want to see Letts do more and more stage roles when he could be writing more plays like August: Osage County and Mary Page Marlowe. But he's so spectacular in All My Sons-even in the simple, speechless act of reading a letter-that you can't help but imagine him (and Bening) in, oh, say...Death of a Salesman. Hey, a theatergoer can dream.
1947 | Broadway |
Original Broadway Production Broadway |
1974 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
1987 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
1997 | Off-Broadway |
Off-Broadway |
2008 | Broadway |
Broadway Revival Broadway |
2010 | West End |
London Revival West End |
2019 | West End |
London Revival at Old Vic Theatre West End |
2019 | Broadway |
Roundabout Theatre Company Broadway Revival Broadway |
Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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2019 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play | Hampton Fluker |
2019 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Annette Bening |
2019 | Drama League Awards | Distinguished Performance Award | Tracy Letts |
2019 | Drama League Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Play | All My Sons |
2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Director of a Play | Jack O'Brien |
2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Feature Actor in a Play | Benjamin Walker |
2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Projection Design | Jeff Sugg |
2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Revival of a Play | All My Sons |
2019 | Outer Critics Circle Awards | Outstanding Sound Design | John Gromada |
2019 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play | Benjamin Walker |
2019 | Tony Awards | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play | Annette Bening |
2019 | Tony Awards | Best Revival of a Play | All My Sons |
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