It is so simple in style and so inevitable in theme that it scarcely seems like a thing that has been written and acted. I'm not so sure he hasn't written a great American play.' Brooks Atkinson proclaimed in the New York Times that 'Miller has written a superb drama. Eugene O'Neill gave the play his imprimatur: 'Miller's bolder than I have been. Running for 742 Broadway performances, Salesman entered the canon of American theater with glory. Few things in Broadway history can have had so sensational a build-up: fewer still-which is far more wonderful-have been so breathlessly received when they arrived. Whoever you met that had caught the show out of town had clearly seen a masterpiece already, and behaved a little as if he had seen a ghost.
