Gregory Doran’s Royal Shakespeare Company production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman is to transfer to the West End after it finishes its run in Stratford.
Antony Sher and Harriet Walter are among the cast who will go to the Noël Coward Theatre for the play’s ten-week run.
RSC artistic director Doran said, “Death of a Salesman is, without doubt in my mind, the greatest American play of the 20th century. It’s taken its rightful place, alongside Shakespeare, on our main stage in Stratford to mark the centenary of Arthur Miller’s birth. I’m delighted we’re able to share this production with London audiences.”
Death of a Salesman will run at the Noël Coward Theatre from 9 May until 18 July.
It will join three other Royal Shakespeare Company shows in London: the touring version of Thomas Middleton's Jacobean comedy A Mad World My Masters, which will play at the Barbican from 29 April until 9 May, Tom Morton-Smith’s new play Oppenheimer, which is playing at the Vaudeville theatre until 23 May, and Matilda The Musical, the award-winning production inspired by Roald Dahl’s book, which is on at the Cambridge Theatre.