Article: The 'Price' wars: Interplayers stages an Arthur Miller classic that explores family conflict.

Byline: Jim Kershner

Apr. 5--When people think of Arthur Miller they don't always think of "The Price." Yet this 1968 drama was Miller's biggest critical and commercial Broadway hit except for "Death of a Salesman."

It's a tense, compact family saga with many of the elements that made Miller one of the key American playwrights of the 20th century.

Two brothers meet at the family's old New York brownstone to dispose of their deceased father's estate. One is a doctor and one is a New York beat cop. Their long-simmering resentments gradually rise to the surface in what is widely considered to be a classic Miller family confrontation.

"It's not overtly a ...

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