Who knew that Philip Seymour Hoffman first played Willy Loman in high school? That’s one of the tidbits unearthed by interviewer Mo Rocca in a Q&A with the Tony-nominated star of Death of a Salesman on the May 27 edition of CBS Sunday Morning. Hoffman’s astonishing versatility is on display in the piece, which includes video snippets ...

Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman will star in the big screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s best-selling spy novel A Most Wanted Man, according to Deadline.com. Hoffman recently earned a Tony nomination for his performance as Willy Loman in Mike Nichols’ starry revival of Death of a Salesman. The film will be directed in Germany by accomplished music ...

Eight-time Tony winner (and 2012 Tony nominee) Mike Nichols participated in The New York Times’ prestigious “Times Talk” series on May 7. The iconic director is perhaps best known for films like The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Birdcage as well his Emmy-winning miniseries Angels in America. This season, Nichols returned to Broadway to direct ...

Andrew Garfield is winning over critics and theatergoers as Biff Loman in Mike Nichols’ revival of Death of a Salesman. The actor just won a Broadway.com Audience Choice Award for Favorite Breakthrough Performance and even received a Tony nomination for his Broadway debut! Garfield's career continues to explode as he preps for the release of his new summer ...

One of New York's most acclaimed actresses, Linda Emond has tackled tough roles in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide, received a Tony nomination for her featured role in Life (x) 3 and won two Jefferson awards for her work in Chicago productions of Pygmalion and The Winter’s Tale. Now, at age 52 ...

The Tony-nominated revival of Death of a Salesman plays its final performance at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Death of a Salesman concerns Willy Loman an aging traveling salesman coming to terms with the emptiness of his life. Willy had great dreams for his oldest son, Biff, a former high school football star who has not lived up to his ...

Death of a Salesman’s Finn Wittrock and Tribes’ Susan Pourfar have won the Actors' Equity Foundation's Clarence Derwent Awards. The award honors the most promising male and female performances on the New York metropolitan scene. The two rising stars will receive their awards at Equity’s Eastern Regional Board on June 12.

Wittrock made his Broadway debut as ...

The morning the Tony nominations are announced, phones start buzzing with texts and calls for the happy few who get nods. As usual, Broadway.com is among the callers offering congratulations and getting responses. Here are the first reactions from 2012 Tony nominees. Congrats to all!

Linda Emond
Nominated for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, Death ...

Movie star Andrew Garfield is winning over Broadway audiences as Philip Seymour Hoffman’s adrift son Biff in Mike Nichols’ acclaimed revival of Death of a Salesman. The talented, young actor dropped by The Ellen Show on April 2 to drum up excitement for his next project, the summer blockbuster The Amazing Spider-Man. Ellen got the shy British actor to ...

Arthur Miller’s 1949 award-winning play Death of a Salesman has returned to Broadway in a beautiful new production with a dream cast led by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield, Linda Emond and Finn Wittrock. Directed by Mike Nichols, the drama officially bowed on March 15 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars turned out to ...