 A View From the Bridge tickets are available for a current production at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. The latest production stars Live Schreiber as Eddie Carbone, Jessica Hecht as Beatrice Carbone, Eddie's wife; Scarlett Johansson in her Broadway debut as Catherine, Eddie's niece; Morgan Spector as Rodolpho, Beatrice's cousin; and Corey Stoll as Marco, Beatrice's cousin and Rodolpho's brother. Gregory Mosher is directing the 2009 Broadway rendition. Mosher is the Director of the Arts Initiative at Columbia University and is an acclaimed Tony Award winning director on the Broadway and West End stage. A View From the Bridge will run for 14 weeks at the Cort Theatre. Previews began on December 28, 2009 and the play officially opened on January 24, 2010. The limited engagement follows a successful revival over the Atlantic in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre. The play, set in a New York neighborhood simply known as the polis, only identified in the real world by its view from underneath the Brooklyn Bridge, was written by Arthur Miller in 1955 as a one act play. Miller took a story he heard from an Italian-American longshoreman and wrote and produced A View From the Bridge at the Coronet Theatre in New York. The performance ran for 149 shows, before being deemed a failure. Miller immediately revised his work, extending the work into a two-act play. This two act version has become the signature version known widely by theatrical audiences. A View From the Bridge suddenly had successful runs in London in the West End, in New York Off-Broadway, and even no Broadway in the play's eventual return to America's most notable stages.
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