When Mr. Lloyd was given the opportunity by a small New England theater company to play nearly any part he desired, his choice was almost as improbable as the notion of a time-traveling DeLorean sports car. He selected Willy Loman, the crumbling patriarch of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” whom Mr. Lloyd will portray at the Weston Playhouse in a run that begins on Thursday. It is an epic part — arguably the canonical role of American theater — and one Mr. Lloyd knows he might never have landed were it not for family ties to the theater company and the serendipity of summer stock. – from NYTimes