'Death of a Salesman' returns to Broadway, making history as Black actors play the Lomans

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Nearly 75 years after Arthur MIller's 'Death of a Salesman' was first on Broadway, a first: The Willy Loman family is African American. DanaTylerTV reports.

Pierce is known for many screen roles, including"The Wire" and"Treme.""Death of a Salesman" is his fifth Broadway play, one making history with Black actors as the Lomans, instead of white.

"Just like any actor, you bring who you are to the role. To have the Loman family be Black, it amplifies all those things that are already there on the page and brings it to a new level," Pierce said. Arthur Miller's play won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, the Tony Award and quickly became iconic American literature.

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