Arthur Miller, Old Hat at Home, Is a London Hit

Any new play by Arthur Miller is an important event in American culture. One as theatrically bold and intellectually subtle as The Ride Down Mt. Morgan is reason to shout for joy. Robustly funny, full of fantasy and hallucination yet easy to follow, it is free of the world-weary, elegiac tone of the four slight one-acts that had been Miller's sole stage output in the previous decade. At 76, the playwright has recaptured the vigorous voice and zest of middle age and has found a fresh, indeed engagingly oddball, way to revisit his accustomed theme of how to assess rugged individualism...