Jonathan Miller "Broken Blossoms", The New York Review of Books (March 5, 1964)
• The premiere production of After the Fall at Repertory Theater of The Lincoln Center was directed by Elia Kazan.

The comparison with Reginald Rose is more than a passing snub, for it actually makes reference to an enduring affinity between Miller and the sturdy, footling craftsmen of "liberal" telly. Stripped of its tricks, and with the soliloquies cut, and so on, After the Fall shrinks to its proper proportion, as a sequence of sketches for The Defenders and The Eleventh Hour.

— Jonathan Miller

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• The premiere production of After the Fall at Repertory Theater of The Lincoln Center was directed by Elia Kazan." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Arthur Miller

About Arthur Miller

Arthur Asher Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. Widely recognized as one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th Century, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.