Arthur Miller’s ‘The Price’ at Theatrical Outfit

 

Theatrical Outfit will continue its 49th season this spring with a new staging of Arthur Miller’s The Price, presented in partnership with The Breman Museum. The production, running April 8 through May 3 at the Balzer Theater at Herren’s, reunites the creative team behind two of the company’s most acclaimed recent works: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski and The Lehman Trilogy.

Directed by Artistic Director Matt Torney with dramaturgy by Addae Moon, the production offers a contemporary look at one of Miller’s most personal plays—a drama that examines the weight of family history, the cost of long‑buried choices, and the uneasy process of reckoning with the past. First produced in 1968, The Price remains one of the playwright’s most intimate explorations of American identity, shaped by the economic upheavals and class anxieties that defined his early life.

Set in the attic of a dilapidated New York brownstone, the play centers on two estranged brothers who reunite to settle their late father’s estate. Surrounded by decades of accumulated furniture and family relics, they confront the diverging paths their lives have taken and the emotional debts that have never been paid. Their negotiations are complicated by the presence of Gregory Solomon, an aging Russian‑Jewish furniture dealer whose wit, resilience, and hard‑won wisdom reflect the immigrant experience that shaped so much of Miller’s worldview.

Torney notes that Miller’s biography is inseparable from the play’s emotional core. Born into an upper‑middle‑class Jewish family in New York, Miller watched his father lose everything during the Great Depression. The family left behind their Long Island home and moved to a modest apartment in Brooklyn, where Miller worked in his father’s furniture showroom and delivered bread as a teenager. Those experiences—of economic instability, working‑class struggle, and the fragile promise of the American Dream—echo throughout his body of work, and particularly in The Price.

The production brings back the trio of actors who led The Lehman Trilogy: Andrew Benator as Walter Franz, Brian Kurlander as Gregory Solomon, and Eric Mendenhall as Victor Franz. They are joined by Cara Mantella as Esther Franz.

Performances will take place April 8 through May 3 at the Balzer Theater at Herren’s, 84 Luckie Street NW. Season packages for 2025–2026 and single tickets for The Price are currently available through Theatrical Outfit.