‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway Has Help From Something Old

The New York Times: When the director Joe Mantello began working on his new production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” now in previews on Broadway, he did the obvious: He read the script. The play’s published text, taught in schools as a pillar of American theater and a tragedy of the American dream, was full of stage directions and descriptions of the set that, Mantello said in an interview, kept cluttering his mind. So he asked the Miller estate whether there was a version stripped of all that.