In the midst of the usual year-end rash of “Best Of” lists and seasonal jolliness came news that a spring revival of Arthur Miller’s first Broadway success, “All My Sons,” had hit a serious snag. Gregory Mosher, one of the American theater’s most accomplished directors and producers, left the Roundabout Theatre Company production rather than accede to the demands of Miller’s estate.
The 1947 wartime drama, which is to star Annette Bening and Tracy Letts, was turned over to another distinguished director, Jack O’Brien, when Miller’s daughter Rebecca — herself an accomplished filmmaker and author — rejected Mosher’s plan to cast actors of color as siblings in two key roles.
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