Arthur Miller's second Broadway play, All My Sons, was his first great success, winning 1947 Tony Awards® for both Mr. Miller and director Elia Kazan in the first ever Tony Awards ceremony. The original production, starring Ed Begley and Karl Malden, ran for 328 performances on Broadway, and was adapted for the screen in 1948 with a cast featuring Edward G. Robinson and Burt Lancaster. In 1987, Richard Kiley starred in a Broadway revival, which won the Tony Award that year as well.
As timely today as the day it was written, the play was inspired by a true story about a successful businessman who knowingly sold the government defective airplane parts during World War II. A middle-class couple, Joe and Kate Keller, have lost their younger son in the war, but Kate cannot give up believing that he is still alive. Chris, their surviving son, falls in love with his brother's fiancée Ann and brings her home to tell them of their new relationship and their plans to marry. In the confrontations that follow, cracks begin to appear in everyone's stories, lies are exposed, and a secret is revealed that could destroy them all.
The greatly-anticipated 2008 production stars Tony Award winner JOHN LITHGOW, Academy Award® winner DIANNE WIEST, Tony Award nominee PATRICK WILSON, and KATIE HOLMES in her Broadway debut, and is directed by the world-renowned SIMON McBURNEY.
More information is available online at AllMySonsOnBroadway.com.
Read about how ALL MY SONS is a play for "Obama's America" at Guardian.co.uk.
