THE WEEK AHEAD, June 2-8: Death of a Salesman Ends Broadway Run, 54 Below Opens, Shakespeare in the Park Begins

By Blake Ross
02 Jun 2012

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Playbill.com's weekly planner reminds you that the end of an epic Salesman is here… Kristin Chenoweth returns to New York… Barack is on Broadway… Shakespeare in the Park turns 50… and Broadway gets a new nightclub. June is bustin' out all over this WEEK AHEAD!

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Saturday, June 2
LAST CHANCE→ Mike Nichols' celebrated revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman is easily one of the season's — if not the last decade's — most poignant and gut-wrenching productions. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Andrew Garfield, Linda Emond and Finn Wittrock expertly portray the trials and tribulations of the troubled Loman family in a revival that pays homage to Elia Kazan's groundbreaking 1949 production. It closes today. (Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th St., btwn. Broadway & 8th Ave., info/tickets.)

GO→ Pint-sized powerhouse performer Kristin Chenoweth continues her multi-city national tour with a stop in New York! Chenoweth promises a potpourri of song selections from Broadway tunes (from Les Miz to Wicked to Phantom of the Opera) to pop standards (including a very famous Dolly Parton number) to the Great American Songbook. The tour will move on to Boston, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Nashville, Atlanta and ending in her hometown of Broken Arrow, OK. Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. (8 PM, City Center, 131 W. 55th St., btwn. 6th & 7th Aves., here.)

Sunday, June 3
GO→ Brooke Shields and Brian d'Arcy James will host the 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards at New York City's Town Hall. On the docket to present are Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, Doug Wright, Rick Elice, Maury Yeston, William Finn, Roger Rees, Alex Timbers, Peggy Eisenhauer, Jonathan Tunick, Oskar Eustis, Jenny Gersten, Martha Plimpton, John Larroquette and Julie Halston. (8 PM, The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., btwn. 6th & 7th Aves., general admission $45-$85, info/tickets.)

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