Joe Keller: Sure, Larry was my son. But I think to him they
were all my sons. And I guess they were…
—All My Sons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Charlie Siedenburg
551-655-0968
Charlie_siedenburg@yahoo.com
TWO RIVER THEATER COMPANY presents
Arthur Miller’s Landmark American Drama
ALL MY SONS
January 19 – February 5, 2006
Directed by Roger Danforth
(Red Bank, NJ) Two River Theater Company, under the leadership of Executive Producer Robert Rechnitz and Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, is proud to present Arthur Miller’s landmark American drama, All My Sons. Directed by Roger T. Danforth, All My Sons stars Ken Tigar, Beth Dixon, Tony Crane, Mary Bacon, Frank Mihelich, Debra Whitfield, Sara Pauley, Kevin Kelly, Clark Carmichael, Jake Cameron and Jake Tavill, and runs from January 19 through February 5, 2006. For tickets call 732-345-1400 or purchase online at www.trtc.org.
Winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationships between fathers and sons and the conflict between business and personal ethics.
The inspiration for the play came from a wartime anecdote Miller heard about a woman who had turned in her father for delivering defective equipment to the U.S. military. From this Miller shaped a drama not about war, but about a topic he knew better: money.
With today’s national headlines of war in Iraq and executives and financial officers of major corporations behind bars, All My Sons startles with a contemporary relevance for American audiences in 2005. World War II has ended as Joe Keller, an airplane parts manufacturer, is caught in a personal battle between individual responsibility and business success that could threaten his search for the American dream.
All My Sons was Arthur Miller’s first Broadway success. (His only previous Broadway play, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened on November 23, 1944 and closed two days later) All My Sons established Miller as an important American playwright and his next three plays—Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge—cemented his position as heir to Eugene O’Neill as one of America’s greatest playwrights. All My Sons contains all the elements of classical tragedy. Miller was one of the first modern playwrights to transfer tragedy from royal courts into the homes and backyards of common working people, to show that extraordinary emotions and actions are experienced by recognizable ordinary people, i.e. suburbanites, our neighbors, our families.
All My Sons opened on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre on January 29, 1947. The cast included Ed Begley as Joe Keller, Arthur Kennedy and subsequently John Forsythe as Chris Keller, and Karl Malden as George Deever. Directed by Elia Kazan, it received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award as Best New Play and ran 328 performances. In 1948 a movie version was released with Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster.
Arthur Miller was born in New York City in 1915 and studied at the University of Michigan, where two of his plays were produced in 1934. When he graduated in 1938 he began working with the Federal Theatre Project and wrote radio plays for CBS and the Cavalcade of America. His first Broadway production was The Man Who Had All the Luck in 1944. His plays include All My Sons (1947), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The American Clock (1980), The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), and Broken Glass (1994), among many others. The Signature Theatre Company dedicated its 1997-98 season to Mr. Miller, which included the premiere of his latest play Mr. Peters' Connections. Mr. Miller's screenplays include The Misfits and Everybody Wins, "Playing for Time" (for television), and the recent adaptation of The Crucible (Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay). His awards include the Pulitzer Prize, three Tony Awards, two Drama Critics Circle Awards, an Obie, a BBC Best Play Award, an Olivier Award for best play, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Creative Arts Award from Brandeis University, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, the Alger Meadows Award, and the Pell Award for Excellence.
Two River Theater Company, under the direction of Executive Producer Robert M. Rechnitz and Artistic Director Jonathan Fox, was founded in 1994 as Monmouth County's first professional regional theater in 30 years. Two River’s mission is to perform from the world body of dramatic literature, including new works, those plays which most richly direct our gaze to the life of the human spirit in all of its shifting modes, its thought, its suffering, its passion, its joy and laughter. As one of New Jersey's leading regional theatres, Two River Theater Company, a not-for-profit arts organization, is supported in part by grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Dept. of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, in addition to contributions from many corporations, foundations, businesses and individuals. Two River Theater Company is a member of Theatre Communications Group and the New Jersey Theatre Alliance.
Two River Theater Company, located at its new 350-seat, state-of-the-art theater at 21 Bridge Avenue in Red Bank, NJ, 07701, is easily accessible by car from New York City (60 min. from midtown), Philadelphia (75 minutes) and New Jersey via the Garden State Parkway (Exit 109). From NY’s Penn Station: NJ Transit’s North Jersey Coast line offers nonstop service (approx. 90 minutes) from Manhattan to Red Bank on selected days and times, convenient for weekday matinees, evening performances and Saturday/Sunday performances. For further information call NJ Transit at 1-800-772-2222 or visit www.njtransit.com. Two River Theater Company is barrier-free and completely accessible to people with disabilities. Children under the age of 4 are not permitted into mainstage shows. Tickets/Information: Tickets $32-$48. Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. $12 student tickets available for any performance with current ID.
Box Office phone: 732-345-1400 Website: www.trtc.org
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Coming Soon…
Samuel Beckett Festival - A Centennial Celebration
March 16 – April 2, 2006
Featuring 8 One-Act Plays, A Live Radio Play, Beckett and Buster Keaton Film Festival, and Morton Feldman’s “Words and Music”
Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT
March 16 – April 2, 2006
Directed by Seth Barrish
Widely praised as the most influential play of the second half of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot depicts the eternal search for meaning in a meaningless world. Heartbreakingly poignant and outrageously funny, Waiting for Godot is at once an existential vaudeville, an anatomy of a marriage, a plea for resistance, and an actor's playground.
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