We are in the final week of the Workshop Theatre production of Death of a Salesman. For those of you who are not familiar with this notorious play, Arthur Miller (once married to Marilyn Monroe) wrote Death of a Salesman in 1949 and it remains an American classic to this day.

My son Patrick Michael Kelly caught the theatre bug at Heathwood Hall in 1998 and became a Trustus Theatre apprentice shortly thereafter. When it is your child, it is okay to brag, and I am going to take the liberty in doing so in my KellyGram this week! Patrick has starred on stage and behind the scenes in more theatre productions than I can remember! The last play that he directed was Tennessee Williams’s classic, A Streetcar Named Desire, which occurred right before Covid, and he has appeared in one production on stage since then. He returns to the director’s chair for the final weekend of Death of a Salesman at the Cottingham Theatre at Columbia College. I have learned enough being a theatre parent that nothing is more challenging than directing a classic which has been performed on stage many times before.

If you have a desire for superb entertainment this weekend, then I would suggest you check out Death of a Salesman. Here is a link to a review by Jon Tuttle, Director of the Honors Program, and a Professor of English at Francis Marion University.

Kudos to Patrick, his entire cast and team for bringing this American classic to the stage! You will not be disappointed.