CFP and other scholarly opportunities with Deadlines

Deadline is Sept. 18th 2016. If anyone is interested in presenting a 15-20 minute paper on a panel that explores connections between Miller and O’Neill for the 19-22 July 2017 Eugene O’Neill conference at National University of Ireland in Galway, Ireland—contact David Palmer. One-page proposals should include name, academic affiliation, mail and email addresses, paper title, and detailed abstract. dpalmer@maritime.edu

Comparative Drama Conference
Rollins College
Orlando, Florida
April 6-8, 2017

The Arthur Miller Society
Call for Papers

Once again in 2017, the Arthur Miller Society hopes to have a panel at the Comparative Drama Conference (CDC). Here is a link to the conference website:
http://blogs.rollins.edu/drama/

At this point the Society is accepting papers for this conference on any aspect of Miller’s life and work. The focus for the panel will be determined by the proposals that are selected.

Please submit proposals of no more than 400 words to David Palmer (dpalmer@maritime.edu) by November 15 so that they can be reviewed by the Miller Society selection committee before the conference proposal deadline. Selections of papers to be included in the Miller Society’s panel proposal to the CDC will be made by November 30.

The American Literature Association Annual Conference
Boston
May 25-28 2017

The Arthur Miller Society would like to offer two panels.  One will concentrate on how Miller approaches issues of women and gender in his plays and the other can be an open panel (depending on submissions) that addresses any other aspect of Miller's work, productions of that work, or ideas for teaching Miller's work.

Please submit brief proposals of no more than 250 words to Sue Abbotson (sabbotson@ric.edu) by January 1st 2017 so that they can be reviewed before the conference proposal deadline. Selections will be made by the close of January.
 

Theatre Journal is pleased to announce two special issues for 2017: Theatre and the Museum/Cultures of Display (Sept 2017); and Theatre, Performance and Visual Images (Dec 2017): https://www.iftr.org/news/2016/august/theatre-journal-special-issue-calls-for-papers-2017



Below are photographs of Mr. Miller from the 9th International Arthur Miller Conference, taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mason, University of Oregon. 

FILM INFORMATION (21st century developments): 

• Filmed in Tehran and directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, starring Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidusti and Iraj Karimi, The Salesman is about an Iranian couple performing Death of a Salesman. This adaptation of Salesman, written by Asghar Farhadi, was feted at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, where Farhadi won a prize for his screenplay. It will also be the Iranian entry for next year's Oscars. The film revolves around a teacher and his wife, who are attacked at their home in Tehran, and features a “play within a play," as Death of a Salesman is being performed in a theatre, and its scenes parallel and augment the film’s narrative.
  
• The new film that Rebecca Miller has written and directed, Maggie’s Plan, is proving to be a big hit on the festival circuit. Starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke and Julianne MooreRelease date: 20 May 2016.
• Signature Theatre's Off-Broadway revival of Incident at Vichy will be featured in the second season of Theater Close-Up on Thirteen (WNET New York) hosted by actress Blythe Danner. The production was filmed 16 Dec. 2015 and will be broadcast in spring 2016. It will be the fifth presentation of the second season, which launched back on 1 Oct. 2015. The broadcast will be made available online to the tri-state area only for a limited period. Check Thirteen’s website for scheduling details.
• The Misfits will be re-released in UK cinemas from Friday 12 June, 2015.
  
• From Thursday 26th March 2015 at 7pm, cinema audiences will have the chance to watch Mark Strong lead the cast in Ivo Van Hove’s five-star Young Vic production of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge broadcast from the Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End as part of National Theatre Live. The National Theatre’s innovative project, NT Live, broadcasts some of the best of theatre live from the stage to cinemas across the UK and around the world. More than 1500 screenings are to take place in over 40 countries with additional encore screenings to be announced. Details of all screenings can be found at http://ntlive.nationaltheatre.org.uk/
• Lifetime is producing a four-hour miniseries based on J. Randy Taraborrelli’s book, Marilyn Monroe: The Untold Story. No word yet on who will play Miller.
• Captured live in High Definition by DigitalTheatre.com at The Old Vic, London during its 2014 season directed by Yael Farber, with Richard Armitage, The Crucible is to be screened in 350 cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland Dec. 4 and 7 only, with further worldwide screenings to follow. US venues seem to have fallen through, but keep checking at Cinemalive, and you can also order the production through DigitalTheatre.
  
• Playing for Time is released now on Blu-ray; it includes a booklet included with a new essay from film scholar Teri Ginsberg. Check out this review.
  
• 23 Oct. 2013, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will be screening the East Coast premier of Stanley Kramer's newly restored 1951 film version of Death of a Salesman as part of To Save and Project: The 11th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation at The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), New York, NY. Call 212-708-9400 or check the website. The World Premiere screening of was presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in the Billy Wilder Theater on August 9, 2013 as part of film series entitled, "Champion: The Stanley Kramer Centennial," honoring the late legendary filmmaker.
  
• MGM has released The Misfits in Blu-Ray--a rare occurence for a black and white movie, however, the disc sadly contains little additional material.
• All My Sons with David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker, is available from Digital Theatre as a downloadable production (or to stream) for £6.99 at their website,
• Playing for Time was finally released on DVD on 7th Sept. 2010. Check here for details.
  
• An update on Anthony La Paglia’s A View From The Bridge. The option rights to this will soon be expiring and La Paglia seems ready to give up on his plans to film his performance as Eddie Carbone, although his production team have not completely given up hope that the rights may be extended.
  
• A film version of The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, directed by Nicole Kassell, starring Michael Douglas--though completed, has no plans for release.
  
• A film version of The Man Who Had All the Luck, directed by Scott Ellis with screenplay by Rebecca Miller, has also been shelved.
  
• Rebecca Miller's The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, about a woman in Connecticut heading for a nervous breakdown after her husband leaves her for a younger woman opened in 2009--several reports on its autobiographical aspects, with the Alan Arkin character (older man with three marriages under his belt) being somewhat based on Arthur Miller.
  
• Charlie Kaufman’s 2009 movie, Synecdoche, New York, contained as one of its central conceits, a production of Death of a Salesman, performed with a deliberately young cast.
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) with Nicholas Cage, features as a character, an evil witch named Abigail Williams, shown in Puritan dress.
  
• The 2001 movie, Plain Jane, based on Miller's novella Homely Girl, A Life was released in Europe in 2001 under the title Eden, but is not available in the US--the screenplay was not Miller's and there have been many changes.  Reviews were poor--so a US release is unlikely.