MILLER
EVENTS
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and Special events, as well as links to archives for past events.
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current information for the following categories to make them as
detailed
as possible; include both current and past events so people can use
this
as an archive. Send information to
Sue Abbotson.
We try to keep only
upcoming
events on this page--otherwise you can link to separate pages to see
past
conference papers, productions and events, thus the material is
archived
without this page becoming too large. Please feel free to inform
us of past events to add to these archives as well as anything else
that is coming up.
N.B. For information
on
the Arthur Miller Journal--including how to subscribe
and
contents for previously published isssues, go to the Journal
website.
The
Arthur Miller Theater at the University of Michigan
Calls
For
Papers:
The Arthur Miller Society is always
looking for
anyone
who would like to organize Miller panels at other conferences, such as
MLA, American Studies, ATHE--please contact our current President, Kate Egerton with proposals/details.
Ongoing
CFP:
Looking
for
papers on any aspect of the life and work of Arthur Miller for the Arthur
Miller Journal published Spring and Fall. Go to the Journal page for details.
The Journal
also publishes book and production reviews.
If a
Miller play is being produced in your area (check the listings
below)--feel free to go and see it and send in your review to Sue Abbotson, Performance
Review Editor of the Journal.
Contact the
respective editors for more information--all contact info. on the Journal page.
Jan
Balakian is currently planning to hold an American Drama Conference
at Kean University, NJ, Fall 2010. Kean's Theater Department
will be producing Our Town
with a professional director from NYC, and the plan is to build a
conference around this that focuses on American drama and American
culture--a kind of an American studies approach. Some preference
will be given to panels on women playwrights, and one on Our Town. To learn more about the
Kean location and accessible train to NYC, go to the University website.
Participants should arrange to have their books ordered to
sell/display at Kean's bookstore, which is a Barnes & Noble
store.
Bob Jungdahl is the manager and can be contacted at: kean@bkstore.com
Watch this space for
more details.
Hungarian Journal of English and
American
Studies published near the close of 2006 a special Arthur
Miller
Edition: Volume 11, Number 2 (2005): ISSN: 12 18-7364
that contains several new essays on Miller's work--see details below
under Special
Events/Releases
2007 regarding how to order yourself a
copy.
The
Journal is meanwhile looking for further submissions: Manuscripts
should conform to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook in all matters
of style (parenthetical citations keyed to a works-cited list).
Contributions
on history should conform to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual
of
Style. All submissions should be sent together with a disk copy of the
article in Word 95 for Windows. All correspondence should be addressed
to the Editor, HJEAS, University of Debrecen, Pf. 73, Hungary 4010;
e-mail: abnagyzo@delfin.unideb.hu
HJEAS are currently
inviting proposals for contributions to a special issue in honor of
Edward Albee’s 50-year dramatic career on the American stage. Edward Albee: Fifty Years on the American
Stage will focus primarily on Albee’s recent dramatic output,
especially his most recent highly innovative plays, and will explore to
what extent Albee can be associated with postmodernism. The topics of
essays may include (but are not restricted to):
- Albee as a social critic in the postmodern era;
- Albee and the postmodern stage (postmodern
strategies, ideas, and a variety of dramatic techniques);
- shifts in the portrayal of women;
- recurrent and modified tropes;
- the increasing use of the fantastic;
- recurrence and discontinuity of persistent themes
in the Albee canon;
- Hungarian productions and reception of Albee’s
recent plays.
Deadline for Proposals (300 words): February 15, 2009
Deadline for completed essays: September 1, 2009
Send all inquiries to the Guest Editor of the special issue: Lenke Németh,
Below are photographs of Mr. Miller from the
9th
International Arthur Miller Conf., taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason,
University
of Oregon.
Conferences
and Panels: (Link to AMS
conference archive) (Link to ALA archive)
Thanks to all who attended our panels
at 20th
ALA
Conference in Boston, MA.
May 21-24, 2009 at Westin Copley Place
Check
out
the American
Literature Association website for general conference details.
Jan
Balakian is currently planning
an American Drama Conference at Kean University, NJ
for Fall 2010--watch this space
for upcoming details.
Also consider putting together a
panel on Miller and O'Neill for the upcoming
International Eugene O'Neill
Conference currently in planning for Greenwich Village, NY in 2011.

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Outside the William Inge Theatre
they have
planted a tree for each past Honoree of the
William Inge Festival Achievement Award
who has passed on.
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The tree they planted in
Miller's
memory right outside the
William Inge Theatre in
Independence, Kansas.
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Here is the plaque at the base
of the tree.
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Current
Stage Productions
(Link to Archive)
FILM
NEWS:
- Looks like Anthony LaPaglia finally got financing for his film
version of A View from the Bridge.
It will be an independent production and filming will go on over the
summer, with Derick Martini in the director's seat, and LaPaglia
playing Eddie. Martini has also
written the screenplay--though he says he has stayed very faithful to
Miller's script.
- The
film version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, directed by
Nicole
Kassell, starring Michael Douglas--though in the can, has disappeared
from view: literally.
- The
2001 movie, Plain Jane, based on
Miller's novella Homely
Girl, A Life was released in Europe in 2001 under the
title Eden, but is not
available in
the US--the screenplay was not Miller's and there have been many
changes. Reviews were not
great--so a US release is unlikely.
- The
film version of The Man Who Had All the Luck, directed by Scott
Ellis with screenplay by Rebecca Miller has backed off release until
2009--no specific date as yet.
- Rebecca's
latest project, The
Private Lives of Pippa Lee, about a woman in Connecticut heading
for a nervous breakdown after her husband leaves her for a younger
woman (played by Julianne Moore) played out of competition at the
Berlin Film Festival on
9 Feb., and reviews weren't too promising, here's one from Variety.
The film will again be on view at the Edinburgh Film Festival June
10th. It is due for release in UK on 10th July 2009 (and Belgium and
Netherlands soon after), no news yet of
its US release date.
- Charlie
Kaufman’s movie, Synecdoche,
New York, contained as
one of its central conceits, a production of Death of a Salesman, performed with
a deliberately young cast.
During
2010
- The Crucible
27 Mar.-2 May by Infamous Commonwealth Theatre (ICT), at Raven Theatre,
6152 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL. Directed by Chris Maher. Call
312-458-9780 or check the website for more
information.
- All My Sons
8 Jan.-7 Feb. Huntingdon Theater, Main Stage, Boston, MA. Directed by
David Esbjornson. Call 617 266-0800, or check the website
for more information.
- The Price
27 Jan.-14 Feb. A co-production between Geva Theatre Center and
Syracuse Stage at Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Boulevard, Rochester
NY. New subscriptions go on sale May 18 2009, and single tickets will
be available Aug. 3 for $20 to $65. For information, call (585)
232-4382 or go to the website.
- All My Sons 27
Jan.-14 Feb. by PlayMakers Repertory Company, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, in the Paul Green Theatre at UNC's Center
for Dramatic Art on Country Club Road. For more information call (919)
962-PLAY (7529) or visit the website.
During 2009
- The Crucible
11-14 November, an adaptation by Mansfield Palace Theatre's Community
Theatre, Leeming Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire NG18 1NG, UK.
Led by Louise Wildish. Call 01623 633133 for more information, or check
the website.
- Death of a
Salesman 2-11 October by University Theatre, Walton Arts Center,
in the Studio Theater at Nadine Baum Studios, 495 W. Dickson Street,
Fayetteville, AR. Directed by Michael Landman, with scene design by
Chris Yoo. Tickets from $15, call: (479) 443-5600, or check the website
for more information.
- The Crucible
26 October – 14 Nov. by Queensland Theatre Company, 78
Montague Road, South Brisbane, PO Box 3310, South Brisbane BC,
Queensland 4101, Australia. Directed by Michael Gow with Andrew
Buchanan, Robert Coleby, Andrea Moor, James Stewart. Designed by Robert
Kemp. Call Tel: 07 3010 7600, or check the website for more
information.
- All My Sons
25-27, Sept. and 2-3 Oct. by Fly-by-Night Productions, at the Five
Flags' Bijou Room, Dubuque, Iowa. Directed by Michele McKinlay. Tickets
$15, call 563-557 8497 or check their website for more
information.
- All My Sons
31 Aug.-4 Oct. (previews 27-30 Aug.) by TimeLine Theatre at the
Greenhouse Theatre Center Downstairs Mainstage, 2257 N. Lincoln Ave.,
Chicago. Directed by Kimberly Senior. Tickets on sale July 22nd, call
773-281-8463 or check the website
for more information.
- The Crucible
10-14 Aug. by Ilkley Playhouse at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall, UK.
Directed by Robin Green. Performances at 8 pm and 2 pm on 12 & 14.
Played against a backdrop of the cliffs and sea in this wonderful
outdoor space on the edge of a cliff! Call 01736 810181/810471 or check
out the Minack webite,
or the Ilkley Playhouse, where this will be playing in July.
- A View from
the Bridge 8 July-22 Aug. by Off Broadway West Theatre Company
at Phoenix Theatre, 414 Mason St, Suite 601, San Francisco, CA.
Previews July 8&9. Call 510.835.4205 or check the website for more
information.
- All My Sons
17 July-1 Aug. by The Town and Country Players, at 4158 York Road
(Route 263), Buckingham, PA. Directed by Fran Girard, with James
Kirkwood, Valerie Sharper, Brad Masters, Irene Weiss, Jack Bathke and
Andy O'Neill. Performances at 8pm; July 17, 18, 24, 25, 26 (matinee at
3pm), 31 and August 1. Tickets: $15 For online reservations and more
info. visit the T&C website
or phone the box office at 215-348-7566.
- The Crucible
6-18 July by Ilkley Playhouse at The Wharfside Theatre, Weston Road,
Ilkley, West Yorkshire, LS29 8DW, UK. Directed by Robin Green. Box
Office: 01943 609539, or check the website.
- Death of a
Salesman 1-12 July by Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre at
Owen Theater on the Mars Hill College campus, Mars Hill, NC. Directed
by William Gregg, with Michael Goodwin and Robin Arthur. Performances
at 7.30 and matinees (on July 5, 9, and 12), at 2.30. Call 828.689.1239
or check their website
for more details.
- The Ride
Down Mt. Morgan 3-June-3 July by Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryan
Mawr Ave. Chicago, IL. Directed Alex Levy with Robert Dennison and Jan
Ellen Graves. Set design by Grant Sabin. Previews 3-5 June, opens 6
June. Tickets are $22-$30 at 773-728-7529 or check the website for more information.
Special
Events/Releases 2009 (Link to Archive for
past
years)

Inside the new Arthur Miller Theater at the
University of Michigan
- May 30, L.A. Theatre
Works will air its
production of The
Crucible by Arthur Miller, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Stacy
Keach. The broadcast can be heard locally in Southern California on
Saturday from 10pm to midnight on KPCC 89.3 FM, and can also be
streamed on demand at www.latw.org.
L.A. Theatre Works' radio theater series can also be heard on the
following stations (check local listings for broadcast times): 89.7
WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM
KRTS "Marfa Public Radio" in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM
in Albuquerque; 91.5 FM, Interlochen Public Radio in Northern Michigan;
90.1 FM KKFI in Kansas City, MO; 90.7 FM KVNO in Omaha; 94.1 KPFA in
Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; and 89.1 KUOR in
Redlands.
- Series of talkbacks offered alongside TACT's current production
of Incident at
Vichy, all free and immediately follow the respective
performance of the play:
Wednesday, March 18
REMEMBERING ARTHUR MILLER: A SISTER'S MEMORY
Born Joan Maxine Miller, Joan Copeland is an award-winning stage and
film actress and the younger sister of playwright Arthur Miller.
Interviewed by Dr. Stephen Marino, editor of The Arthur Miller Journal
and adjunct professor at St. Francis College.
Wednesday, March 25
STORIES OF SURVIVAL
Stirring stories of hope and survival told straight from the heart by
Holocaust survivors and their families. Moderated by Larry Keith.
Monday, March 30
AN EVENING WITH TOVAH FELDSHUH
Four-time Tony Award nominee Tovah Feldshuh discusses a successful
theatrical career rooted in Jewish experiences and values.
Wednesday, April 1
NEVER FORGET: REFLECTIONS ON THE HOLOCAUST IN ART
A post-Holocaust generation of artists, writers and actors continue to
commemorate one of history's most horrific events in deeply personal,
highly original ways. Join our panel of artists including Harris Yulin
(1973 television version of Incident at Vichy, 2001 Broadway revival of
The Diary of Anne Frank). Moderated by Joan Rosenbaum, director of the
Jewish Museum.
- Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York City. The Great Works
Reading Series will be presented in the Engelman Recital Hall on
Thursday, March 12 at 12:45 p.m. and Monday, March 16 at 1:30 p.m. and
6 p.m. This season’s selection includes the one-act Arthur Miller play
"I Can’t Remember Anything", as well as two additional one-acts by
Harold Pinter. Acclaimed actors Graeme Malcolm and Mary Beth Peil (of
Dawson’s Creek fame) will be featured in the readings.
- Arthur Miller is being honored at Manitoba Theatre Centre’s (MTC)
ninth annual Master Playwright Festival, Winnipeg. Recognizing his
influential career the MillerFest will take place from January 22 –
February 8, 2009. Professional theatre companies, university theatre
programs, cultural and community theatre groups and a local independent
cinema will present several full productions, including The Price, All My Sons,
Miller’s version of Enemy of the People,
Clara, Some
Kind of Love Story, and Playing for Time
as a staged radio play. There will also be readings of The Ride Down Mt.
Morgan, Resurrection Blues, and The Man Who Had All the
Luck, and screenings, including The Misfits, Focus,
and The Crucible.
MillerFest will also provide a broader context of the playwright’s life
and work through the MillerUnbound free events series that will include
a lecture, a directors’ panel and a screening of a documentary. For
more information on the history of the company and details of the
festival please visit their website. Details of
individual productions are given above.
- The Crucible
24-25 Jan. as part of Brave New World Repertory Theatre's sixth annual
Play Reading Salon Series. Directed by Claire Beckman at The Old Stone
House in Park Slope, NY.
Recent Books on Miller
- Jeffrey Meyers, The Genius And The
Goddess. New York: Hutchinson, 2009. A depiction of Miller and
Monroe's marriage.
- Methuen Drama has struck an agreement with the estate of Arthur
Miller to publish a new series of scholarly editions of the
playwright's key works, which Rebecca Miller has described as "the
definitive editions for students and scholars for many years to come."
The publisher will also reissue the complete set of Miller's plays in
six volumes in early 2009, saying that while at present there are
annotated editions suitable for schools, there are no modern editions
of the plays with critical commentary aimed at a higher level.
Hopefully some of these will become available in the US.
- Jeffrey Mason,
Stone
Tower: The Political Theater of Arthur Miller Ann Arbor: U of
Michigan Press, 2008.
- Eric Sterling Ed. Arthur Miller's Death
of a Salesman (Dialogue). Rodophi,
2008. Essays on this seminal play.
- Christopher Bigsby's Arthur Miller: The
Definitive Biography, is finally available in the US (from May
2009)-- it came out first in the UK in November 2008 to very positive
feedback. Here are links to two of its reviews: Times,
Guardian.
- Neil Carson has updated his 1982 book on Miller to bring it up to
Finishing the Picture, Arthur Miller:
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- Julius Novick’s Beyond the Golden Door:
Jewish American Drama and Jewish American Experience. New York :
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, contains a chapter “Arthur Miller and the
Jews.”
- Greenhaven Press’ Social
Issues in Literature series has two recent books relating to
Miller:
-- Justice in
Arthur Miller's The Crucible edited by Claudia D Johnson.
Detroit: Greenhaven, 2009
-- Suicide in
Arthur Miller's The Death of a Salesman edited by Alicia
Cafferty Lerner and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2008.
Contents of the latter: Background on Arthur Miller. The Life and
Career of Arthur Miller / Stephen A. Marino ; An Overview of Death of a Salesman / L.M. Domina ;
Miller and Others Comment on the impact of Death of a Salesman / Arthur
Miller, Robert Falls, and Brian Dennehy ; Interviewed by Paul Solman --
Suicide and Death of a Salesman.
Willy Loman as a Tragic Hero / Robert A. Martin ; Willy Loman is Dying
Throughout the Play / Harold Bloom ; The Ambiguity of Biff's Feelings
for Willy / H.C. Phelps ; Many Factors Led to Willy's Suicide / Sighle
Kennedy ; Willy Loman had the Wrong Dreams / Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. ;
Willy Loman is Undone by the American Dream / Thomas E. Porter ;
Alienation from His Work Drives Willy Loman to Suicide / Paul Blumberg
; Miller Uses Objects to Convey Failure and Other Themes / Marianne
Boruch ; Death of a Salesman in China / Arthur Miller ; A Student
Responds Emotionally to Death of a Salesman / Meredith Kopald --
Contemporary Perspectives on Suicide. Suicide Rates Rise across the
Globe / The Economist ; A Documentary about Suicide Sparks Debate /
Killian Fox ; The Ethics of Physician-assisted Suicide / Renske Heddema
; Involvement Therapy Helps Suicide Survivors Cope / Bob Condor ;
Raising Awareness of Elder Suicide / Ezra Ochshorn.
- Silima Nanda's Faces of Miller Women,
was published in New Delhi, India : Mittal Publications, 2007 (try D.
K. Agencies to get a copy: www.dkagencies.com).
- Enoch Brater Ed. Arthur Miller's Global
Theater. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 2007. Collection of
essays.
- Harold Bloom has been busy putting out several collections of
essays he has culled from a variety of sources (most of these essays
have been printed elsewhere, but are handily collected here in these
one-stop sources)—some are earlier editions that have been updated or
expanded. Of interest to Miller scholars might be:
--Arthur
Miller. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2003.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Biography of Arthur Miller /
Cookie Lommel -- Arthur Miller : An Introduction / Neil Heims -- The
Action and its Significance : Arthur Miller's Struggle with Dramatic
Form / Orm Overland -- Miller and Things / Marianne Boruch -- From Honors at Dawn to Death of a Salesman : Marxism and
the Early Plays of Arthur Miller / Helge Normann Nilsen.
--Arthur Miller.
New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2007.
Contents: Arthur Miller's The
Crucible and the Salem Witch Trials: A Historian's View / Edward
S. Morgan -- The Wooster Group, Arthur Miller, and The Crucible / David Savran -- All My Sons and Paternal Authority
/ James A. Robinson -- Unsafe Convictions: Unhappy Confessions in The Crucible / Valerie Lowe -- Death of a Salesman and American
Leadership: Life Imitates Art / John S. Shockley -- Issues of Identity
in Broken Glass: A Humanist
Response to a Postmodern World / Susan C.W. Abbotson -- Personality
Wins the Day: Death of a Salesman
and Popular Sales Advice Literature / Brenda Murphy -- A Portrait of
Arthur Miller / Jeffrey Meyers -- Death
of a Salesman vs. Columbia Pictures: the Strange Case of Career of a Salesman / Kevin
Kerrane -- Finishing the Picture: Arthur Miller, 1915-2005 / Laurence
Goldstein -- Miller's Tale: The Playwright Drew a Line between Reaching
Out and Selling Out / Wendy Smith -- Arthur Miller and the Art of the
Possible / Steven R. Centola.
--Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 2007
Contents: Memory: Miller / Peter Szondi -- Rhythm between Fathers and
Sons: Death of a Salesman /
Leah Hadomi -- Family Values in Death
of a Salesman / Steven R. Centola -- The Crisis of Authenticity
: Death of a Salesman and the
Tragic Muse / Stephen Barker -- Arthur Miller: Poet / Christopher
Bigsby -- Death of a Salesman at
Fifty: An Interview with Arthur Miller / Colby H. Kullman -- Miller's
Poetic Use of Demotic English in Death
of a Salesman / Frank Ardolino -- Death of a Salesman at Fifty: Still
"coming home to roost" / Terry Otten -- Shame, Guilt, Empathy, and the
Search for Identity in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman / Fred Ribkoff
-- Setting the Scene : Death of a
Salesman and After the Fall
/ Austin E. Quigley
--Arthur Miller's
The Crucible. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The Crucible / Edward Murray --
History and Other Spectres in Arthur Miller's The Crucible / E. Miller Budick --
Arthur Miller's The Crucible
and the Salem WTrials: A Historian's View / Edmund S. Morgan --
Re(dis)covering the Witches in Arthur Miller's The Crucible: A Feminist Reading /
Wendy Schissel -- Conscience and Community in An Enemy of the People and The Crucible / Thomas P. Adler -- The Crucible in history / Arthur
Miller -- The Crucible to A Memory of Two Mondays / Terry
Otten -- Interrogating The Crucible: Revisiting the Biographical,
Historical and Political Sources in Arthur Miller's Play / Stuart
Marlow -- Poetry and Politics in The
Crucible / Stephen A. Marino -- 'The Crucible' / Christopher Bigsby.
- Alan M. Wald’s Trinity of Passion: The
Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade. Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 2007, contains a chapter “Arthur
Miller's Missing Chapter” that considers Miller as a Marxist and his
relationship to socialism.
- Leslie Goss Erickson’s Re-visioning of the
Heroic Journey in Postmodern Literature : Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez,
Arthur Miller, and American Beauty. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,
2006, contains a chapter discussing Death
of a Salesman.
- Ryder Jordan-Finnegan’s Individuation and the
Power of Evil on the Nature of the Human Psyche: Studies in C.G. Jung,
Arthur Miller, and Shakespeare. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen,
2006, contains a discussion of After
the Fall.
- Chris Bigsby’s Remembering and
Imagining the Holocaust : the Chain of Memory. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006, contains a chapter “Arthur Miller:
The Rememberer.”
- Powers, Retha and Kathy Kiernan, eds. This Is My Best: Great
Writers Share Their Favorite Work. San Francisco: Chronicle,
2005.
Contains extracts from Salesman in
Beijing and Miller’s commentary on why he judges this to be his
favorite writing. He states, “I can’t think of another work of mine
that gave me as much pleasure in the writing as this one did,”
explaining the reason largely being he had not been intentionally
writing it for publication, but just to “keep the days from melting
into one another incoherently” (324). He asserts that “in spirit” he
feels this book contains some of his best work, in that it allows us to
see his enthusiasm (324).
- Couple of recent introductory works: Amy Dunkleberger's A Student's Guide to
Arthur Miller. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, 2005, and Richard
Andersen's Arthur
Miller. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2005.