"Death of a Salesman," South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa

Marc Masterson's direction of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" at South Coast Rep's Segerstrom Stage is more than a good sell, it's a gift, a powerful story told with understatement, without a trace of histrionic excess. He stages it like a Shakespeare tragedy, an exquisitely acted, psychologically nuanced tragedy where all but one of the family members have bought into the patriarch's delusion of success without realizing that it's a sham. Masterson phases the production as a slow motion n...