The following piece appeared in the Jewish Journal:
The Crucible: Arthur Miller deals with his own demons in play by Bernard Weinraub.
By Matt Robinson
Nearly every American student has read a play by Arthur Miller at some point in their academic career. “The Crucible” is perennially one of the most-produced plays in schools across the country and “Death of a Salesman” has been back to Broadway many times.
Even so, there are many parts of Miller’s life that remain a mystery. Perhaps most profound of these is the fact that, for much of his later life, he denied the existence of a son who had Downs Syndrome, only realizing towards the end of his life that he had made a tragic mistake and, in some ways, been a hypocrite.
