Geffen Playhouse - Main Stage (Los Angeles, CA)
The Geffen presents All My Sons, Arthur Miller's 1947 hit about the American Dream gone nightmarishly awry, starring Len Cariou (About Schmidt, The West Wing), Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, M.D., How I Met Your Mother) and Laurie Metcalf (Roseanne, Goldstar Roar of the Crowd Winner for Pot Mom). All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who committed a crime and then framed his business partner for it. Years later, his daughter is marrying his business partner's son, and Joe's secret and a life of lies is revealed.
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When the show started, it seemed a bit slow and I had a feeling I was not going to enjoy it, but quickly it picked up the pace and became really engaging. Neil Patrick Harris and Laurie Metcalf were great. A really great production of an Arthur Miller classic.
Great performance and production. A very moving story. One of Miller's best.
First off I would recommend ANY event at the Geffen. It's a beautiful venue, with no "bad seats," ample and close parking and always stupendous casts in phenomenal productions. I particularly enjoyed this production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. I was completely enraptured and engaged to the very end. I was a little concerned about the abilities of Neil Patrick Harris, but was pleasantly surprised. He was charismatic and completely believable, but subtle. I couldn't keep my eyes off of him! And Laurie Metcalf was absolutely amazing! Wow, what a wonderful actor. The star of the show! The story is pretty heavy. I doubt anyone left the theatre without feeling the emotional weight of this family.
It's not often you experience great writing combined with wonderful acting. This production was very moving. I brought a friend. She wants to see more productions at the Geffen. I highly recommend this production.
Amazing play. In true Arthur Miller fashion - it is thought provoking, touching and depressing. The acting was outstanding. One of the best plays I have seen recently.
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As a writer who made his living pointing out social injustice and dramatizing it to great effect, with All My Sons Arthur Miller turns the lens inward and asks what our responsibility is, both inside and outside our own front yards. And what is the cost, if responsibility is abdicated? Nearly 60 years after it was first staged, and again at a time of war, the play's haunting questions remain equally relevant and equally unanswered.
All My Sons tells the story of Joe Keller, a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible and tragic thing: rushing to meet an order from the Army, he knowingly sold them defective airplane parts which later caused planes to crash, and 21 men to die. Joe then engineered his own exoneration by framing his business partner for the crime.
Now, with his son about to marry the partner's daughter, the affair is revisited, and Joe's lie of a life is unraveled. Having spent his entire life in the single-minded pursuit of wealth for the sake of his family, Joe represents the American Dream gone nightmarishly awry.
About Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller is one of the leading American playwrights of the twentieth century and a celebrity of nearly equal notoriety. He was born in October of 1915 in New York City, the son of a ladies-wear manufacturer who was ruined during the economic collapse of the 1930s.
Miller's first public success was Focus (1945), a novel about anti-Semitism, but it was with All My Sons two years later that Miller emerged as an important playwright. It was with Death of a Salesman in 1949 that Miller secured his reputation as one of the nation's foremost playwrights, winning a Tony Award, Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle award - the first play ever to win all three.
Miller followed Death of a Salesman with his most politically significant work, The Crucible (1953), a tale of the Salem witch trials that contains obvious analogies to the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings of Miller's contemporary society.
Miller is also author of the plays A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), A View from the Bridge (1955), and After the Fall (1964), a thinly veiled account of his marriage to actress Marilyn Monroe, as is his screenplay for the class 1961 film, The Misfits.
Later works include The Price (1967), The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993) and Broken Glass (1993), for which he won the Olivier Award for Best Play.
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