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Salon sits down with the Broadway actor and "The Wire" star to discuss the American Dream and Black Americans

NEW YORK — It's been a long time coming, but change has finally arrived on Broadway, where for the first time Willy Loman and his family are played by Black actors.

NEW YORK — Arthur Miller would, it’s reasonable to assume, have been delighted at the idea of a Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” with an all-Black Loman family, especially with Wendell Pierce (”The Wire”) swinging for the fences in the starring role and Sharon D. Clarke playing the…

“Whether people are seeing it for the first time or seeing it for the 20th time, I’m really happy that new audiences are going to come to it to see our perspective,” Pierce says.

Wendell Pierce hopes that heading a Black-led cast in a historic revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” goes beyond exposing the classic American play to a new audience