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{{Short description|1955 play by Arthur Miller}}
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{{Infobox play
| name       = A View from the Bridge
| image      = A View from the Bridge cover.jpg
| image_size = 
| caption    = First edition cover
| writer     = [[Arthur Miller]]
| genre      =
| setting    = The apartment and environment of Eddie Carbone
| subject    = 
| premiere   = September 29, 1955
| place      = Coronet Theatre (now [[Eugene O'Neill Theatre]])<br />New York City
| orig_lang  = English
}}
'''''A View from the Bridge''''' is a [[Play (theatre)|play]] by American playwright [[Arthur Miller]]. It was first staged on September 29, 1955, as a [[One-act play|one-act]] [[Verse drama and dramatic verse|verse drama]] with ''[[A Memory of Two Mondays]]'' at the [[Eugene O'Neill Theatre|Coronet Theatre]] on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]]. The run was unsuccessful, and Miller subsequently revised and extended<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arthur Miller {{!}} Biography, Plays, Books, The Crucible, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Miller-American-playwright|access-date=2021-10-04|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> the play to contain two acts; this version is the one with which audiences are most familiar.<ref>Christopher Bigsby, ''The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller'', pp. 104–108, Cambridge University Press, 2010 {{ISBN|0-521-74538-1}}.</ref> The two-act version premiered in the [[Harold Pinter Theatre|New Watergate theatre club]] in [[West End theatre|London's West End]] under the direction of [[Peter Brook]] on October 11, 1956.

The play is set in 1950s America, in an Italian-American neighborhood near the [[Brooklyn Bridge]] in New York.<ref>[https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/arts/a-view-from-the-bridge-tense-searing-take-on-outsiders-anguish/news-story/4cb75e01494e97667804d53bd78e07d4 "''A View from the Bridge'': Tense, searing take on outsiders' anguish"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]]'', Sydney, 26 October 2017</ref> It employs a [[Greek chorus|chorus]] and narrator in the character of Alfieri. Eddie, the [[Tragedy|tragic]] [[protagonist]], has an improper love for, and almost an obsession with, Catherine, his wife Beatrice's orphaned niece, so he does not approve of her courtship of Beatrice's cousin Rodolpho. Miller's interest in writing about the world of the [[Port of New York and New Jersey|New York docks]] originated with an unproduced screenplay that he developed with [[Elia Kazan]] in the early 1950s (titled ''[[The Hook (screenplay)|The Hook]]'') that addressed corruption on the Brooklyn docks. Kazan later directed ''[[On the Waterfront]]'', which dealt with the same subject.

==Synopsis==
The action is narrated by Alfieri, who was raised in 1900s Italy but is now working as an American lawyer, thereby representing the "Bridge" between the two cultures.

===Act 1===
In the opening speech, Alfieri describes the violent history of the small Brooklyn community of [[Red Hook, Brooklyn|Red Hook]] and tells us that the second-generation [[Sicilians]] are now more civilized, more American, and are prepared to "settle for half" and let the law handle their disputes. But there are exceptions, and he then begins to narrate the story of Eddie Carbone, an Italian American [[longshoreman]] who lives with his wife Beatrice and her orphaned niece Catherine.

Eddie is a good man who, although ostensibly protective and fatherly towards Catherine, harbors a growing passion for her as she approaches her 18th birthday. We learn that he has not had sex with his wife for nearly three months. Catherine is studying to become a [[Shorthand|stenographer]] and Eddie objects to her taking a job she has been offered until she finishes her coursework, expressing a dislike for the way she dresses and the interest she is beginning to show in men. Beatrice is more supportive of Catherine's ventures and persuades Eddie to let her take the job.

Eddie returns home one afternoon with the news that Beatrice's two cousins, brothers Marco and Rodolpho, have safely arrived in New York as illegal immigrants. He has agreed to house them saying that he is honored to be able to help family. Marco is quiet and thoughtful, possessing remarkable strength, whereas Rodolpho is more unconventional, with plans to make a career singing in America. Marco has a family starving in Italy and plans to return after working illegally for several years, whereas Rodolpho intends to stay. Although Eddie, Beatrice, and Catherine are at first excellent hosts, cracks appear when Rodolpho and Catherine begin dating.

Eddie convinces himself that Rodolpho is [[Gay men|homosexual]] and is only expressing interest in Catherine so he can marry her and gain status as a legal citizen. He confronts Catherine with his beliefs and she turns to Beatrice for advice. Beatrice, starting to realize Eddie's true feelings, tells her that she should marry Rodolpho and move out. In the meantime, Eddie turns to Alfieri, hoping for help from the law. However, Alfieri tells him that the only recourse he has is to report Rodolpho and Marco as undocumented. Seeing no solution to his problem, Eddie becomes increasingly desperate and takes his anger out on Rodolpho and, in teaching him to box, "accidentally" injures him. Marco reacts by quietly threatening Eddie, showing his strength by holding a heavy chair above Eddie's head with one hand and "smiling with triumph".

===Act 2===
A few months have passed and Eddie reaches a breaking point when he discovers that Catherine and Rodolpho have slept together and are intent on marrying. Drunk, he kisses Catherine and then attempts to prove that Rodolpho is gay by suddenly and passionately kissing him. After a violent confrontation, Eddie orders Rodolpho to leave the apartment.

Eddie visits Alfieri and insists that the kiss has proved Rodolpho is gay and that he is only marrying Catherine for citizenship, but once again Alfieri says the law cannot help. Out of desperation, Eddie phones immigration services but in the meantime, Beatrice has arranged for Marco and Rodolpho to move in with two other undocumented immigrants in the flat above. Eddie learns that Catherine and Rodolpho have arranged to marry within a week and about the two new immigrants that have moved into the building and, with both anger and fright, frantically urges Catherine and Beatrice to move them out. When immigration officials arrive and arrest Marco, Rodolpho, and the two other immigrants, Eddie pretends that the arrest comes as a complete surprise to him, but Beatrice and Marco see through this. Marco spits in Eddie's face in front of everyone and accuses Eddie of killing his starving children. Eddie tries to convince the neighborhood of his innocence but they turn away from him.

Alfieri visits Marco and Rodolpho in custody, obtaining their release on [[bail]] until their hearing comes up. Alfieri explains that Rodolpho will be able to stay once he has married Catherine but warns Marco that he will have to return to Italy. Vengeful, Marco confronts Eddie publicly on his release, and Eddie turns on him with a knife, demanding that he take back his accusations and restore his honor. In the ensuing scuffle, Eddie is stabbed with his own knife by Marco and dies, as his stunned family and neighbors stand around.

When he witnesses Eddie's death, Alfieri trembles because he realizes that, even though it was wrong, something "perversely pure" calls to him and he is filled with admiration. But, he tells the audience, settling for half-measures is better, it must be, and so he mourns Eddie with a sense of alarm at his own feelings.

== Characters and cast ==
'''Notable casts'''
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" |Character
! Broadway 
! West End 
! Broadway Revival 
! West End Revival 
! Broadway Revival 
! Broadway Revival
! London Revival
! Broadway Revival 
|-
!<small>1955</small>
!<small>1956</small>
!<small>1983</small>
!<small>1987</small>
!<small>1997</small>
!<small>2010</small>
!<small>2014</small>
!<small>2015</small>
|-
!Eddie Carbone
| align="center" |[[Van Heflin]]||align="center"|[[Anthony Quayle]]||align="center"|[[Tony Lo Bianco]]||align="center"|[[Michael Gambon]] ||align="center"|[[Anthony LaPaglia]]||align="center"|[[Liev Schreiber]] || align="center", colspan=2|[[Mark Strong]] 
|-
!Beatrice
| align="center" |[[Eileen Heckart]]||align="center"|[[Megs Jenkins]]||align="center"|[[Rose Gregorio]]||align="center"|[[Elizabeth Bell (actress)|Elizabeth Bell]] ||align="center"|[[Allison Janney]]||align="center"|[[Jessica Hecht]] ||align="center", colspan=2|[[Nicola Walker]] 
|-
!Catherine 
| align="center" |Gloria Marlow||align="center"|[[Mary Ure]]||align="center"|[[Saundra Santiago]]||align="center"|Suzan Sylvester ||align="center"|[[Brittany Murphy]]||align="center"|[[Scarlett Johansson]] ||align="center", colspan=2|[[Phoebe Fox]] 
|-
!Alfieri 
| align="center" |[[J. Carrol Naish]]||align="center"|[[Michael Gwynne]]||align="center"|[[Robert Prosky]]||align="center" {{n/a}} ||align="center"|[[Stephen Spinella]]||align="center"|[[Michael Cristofer]] ||align="center", colspan=2|[[Michael Zegen]] 
|-
!Marco 
| align="center" |[[Jack Warden]]||align="center"|[[Ian Bannen]]||align="center"|[[Alan Feinstein (actor)|Alan Feinstein]]||align="center"|Michael Simkins ||align="center"|[[Adrian Rawlins]]||align="center"|[[Corey Stoll]] ||align="center", colspan=2|[[Russell Tovey]] 
|-
!Rodolpho  
| align="center" |[[Richard Davalos]]||align="center"|[[Brian Bedford]]||align="center"|[[James Hayden]]||align="center"|Adrian Rawlins ||align="center"|Adam Trese||align="center"|[[Morgan Spector]] ||align="center", colspan=2|Richard Hansell
|-
!Louis  
| align="center" |[[David Clarke (actor)|David Clarke]]||align="center"|[[Richard Harris]]||align="center"|Stephen Mendillo||align="center"| Russell Dixon ||align="center"|[[Gabriel Olds]]||align="center"|Robert Turano ||align="center" {{n/a}} || align="center", {{n/a}} 
|-
!Mike
| align="center" |[[Tom Pedi]]||align="center"|Normal Mitchell||align="center"|[[John Shepard]]||align="center"| Joan Arthur ||align="center"|Daniel Serafini-Sauli||align="center"|Joe Ricci ||align="center" {{n/a}} || align="center", {{n/a}} 
|-
!Tony
| align="center" |Antony Vorno||align="center"|[[Ralph Nossek]]||align="center"|[[Paul Perri]]||align="center"|Paul Todd||align="center"|Mark Zeisler||align="center"|Matthew Montelongo ||align="center" {{n/a}} || align="center", {{n/a}} 
|-
!Officer 1 
| align="center" |[[Curt Conway]]||align="center"|[[John Stone (actor)|John Stone]]||align="center"|[[Ramon Ramos]]||align="center"|Allan Mitchell ||align="center"|John Speredakos||align="center"|[[Anthony DeSando]] ||align="center", colspan=2| Thomas Michael Hammond
|-
!Officer 2  
| align="center" |[[Ralph Bell (actor)|Ralph Bell]]||align="center"|Colin Rix||align="center"|James Vitale||align="center"|Simon Coady ||align="center"|Christian Lincoln||align="center"|Marco Verna || align="center", {{n/a}} || align="center", {{n/a}} 
|-
|}

'''Characters'''
* '''Eddie Carbone''' - A [[longshoreman]] who is married to Beatrice while pining for his wife's niece Catherine. 
* '''Beatrice''' - The warm and caring wife of Eddie Carbone and aunt of Catherine. 
* '''Catherine''' - Catherine is a beautiful, smart, young Italian-American girl who is very popular among the boys in the community.
* '''Alfieri''' - An Italian-American lawyer. Alfieri is the narrator of the story. 
* '''Marco''' - Marco is a hard-working Italian cousin to Beatrice. He is a powerful, sympathetic leader.
* '''Rodolpho''' - Beatrice's young, blonde cousin from Italy. Rodolpho prefers singing jazz to working on the ships. He cooks, sews, and loves to dance. 
* '''Louis''' - A longshoreman and friend of Eddie's. Louis hangs out with Mike outside Eddie's home.
* '''Mike''' - A longshoreman and friend of Eddie's. Mike is often seen with Louis outside the Carbone home.
* '''Tony''' - A friend of the Carbones. He assists Marco and Rodolpho off the ship and brings them safely to Beatrice's home.
* '''Two Immigration Officers''' - Two officers from the [[United States Citizenship and Immigration Services|Immigration Bureau]] who come to look for Marco and Rodolpho at Eddie's request.

==Production history==

===Premieres===
The [[One-act play|one-act]], [[Verse drama and dramatic verse|verse]] version of ''A View from the Bridge'' opened on Broadway on September 29, 1955, at the Coronet Theatre (now the [[Eugene O'Neill Theatre]]); [[Marilyn Monroe]] was in the audience.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nyregion/07monroe.html "Marilyn's Manhattan, Both Public and Private"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170120030622/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/nyregion/07monroe.html |date=2017-01-20 }} by Pat Ryan, ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 6, 2011</ref> It ran for 149 performances. This production was directed by [[Martin Ritt]] and the cast included [[Van Heflin]] as Eddie and [[Eileen Heckart]] as Beatrice.<ref name="ibdb">{{IBDB show|1324}}</ref>

Its two-act version premiered in [[West End theatre|London's West End]] under the direction of [[Peter Brook]]. It opened at the [[Harold Pinter Theatre|New Watergate theatre club]] (currently Harold Pinter Theatre) on October 11, 1956, and the cast included [[Richard Harris]] as Louis and [[Anthony Quayle]] as Eddie,<ref>Arthur Miller, ''A View from the Bridge / All My Sons'' (London: Penguin, 1961), p. 9; Arthur Miller, Introduction to ''Plays: One'' (London: Methuen, 1988), p. 51.</ref> with lighting design by [[Lee Watson]].

===Revivals in New York===
[[Dustin Hoffman]] acted as assistant director and stage manager for a successful 1965 production of the play [[Off-Broadway]] at the [[Sheridan Square Playhouse]] in New York City. The play's director, Ulu Grosbard, suggested to Arthur Miller that Hoffman would one day make a great [[Willy Loman]] (a role that Hoffman would later play to great acclaim). Miller was unimpressed and later wrote "My estimate of Grosbard all but collapsed as, observing Dustin Hoffman's awkwardness and his big nose that never seemed to get unstuffy, I wondered how the poor fellow imagined himself a candidate for any kind of acting career."<ref>{{cite web|title=Dustin Hoffman Biography |url=http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/dustin-hoffman-biog/9 |work=Tiscali |year=2008 |access-date=2008-10-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211111055/http://www.tiscali.co.uk/entertainment/film/biographies/dustin-hoffman-biog/9 |archive-date=2008-12-11 }}</ref>

Another production in New York opened on February 3, 1983, at the [[Ambassador Theatre (New York City)|Ambassador Theatre]], with [[Tony Lo Bianco]] as Eddie and directed by [[Arvin Brown]]. It ran for 149 performances.<ref name="ibdb" />

An award-winning production in New York opened on December 14, 1997, at the Criterion Center Stage Right and subsequently transferred to the [[Neil Simon Theatre]]. It ran for 239 performances. It was directed by [[Michael Mayer (director)|Michael Mayer]] and the cast included [[Anthony LaPaglia]], [[Allison Janney]], and [[Brittany Murphy]].<ref name="ibdb" /><ref name="nyt2010">{{cite web|url=http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/theater/reviews/25view.html?pagewanted=print|title=A View From Brooklyn of Tragedy Most Classic|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Ben Brantley|author-link=Ben Brantley|date=January 25, 2010|access-date=2010-01-25}}</ref> The production won the [[Tony Award]] for: [[Tony Award for Best Revival|Best Revival of a Play]]; [[Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play|Best Leading Actor in a Play]] (LaPaglia); it also won [[Drama Desk Award]]s for [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play|Outstanding Revival]], [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]] (Janney), and Outstanding Direction of a Play.

A revival at the [[Cort Theatre]] on Broadway in 2009 starred [[Liev Schreiber]], [[Scarlett Johansson]] and [[Jessica Hecht]]. The limited, 14-week engagement, directed by [[Gregory Mosher]], began with previews on December 28, 2009, and officially opened on January 24, 2010. It ran until April 4, 2010.<ref name="ibdb" /><ref name="nyt2010" /><ref>Jones, Kenneth.[http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138417-A-View-From-the-Bridge-Ends-Limited-Broadway-Engagement "''View from the Bridge'' Ends Limited Broadway Engagement"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410212104/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/138417-A-View-From-the-Bridge-Ends-Limited-Broadway-Engagement |date=April 10, 2010 }} playbill.com, April 4, 2010</ref> Johansson won a Tony Award for her performance.

From October 2015 through February 2016, a production of the play that originated at the [[Young Vic]] Theatre in London [[#In 2014|in 2014]] ran on Broadway at the [[Lyceum Theatre (Broadway)|Lyceum Theatre]] featuring its original London cast.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/nov/12/view-from-the-bridge-review-arthur-miller-reinvented "''A View from the Bridge'' review – Miller reinvented with visceral power"] by Alexis Soloski, ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 13, 2015</ref> It won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play; the director, [[Ivo van Hove]] won the [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play]].

===Revivals in London===
The [[Royal National Theatre|National Theatre of Great Britain]] staged a production in 1987 at the [[Cottesloe Theatre]]. It was directed by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] and [[Michael Gambon]] gave an acclaimed performance as Eddie. ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' called the production "near perfect" and the ''[[New Statesman]]'' called it "one of the finest events to be presented at the National Theatre since it moved to the South Bank."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aviewfromthebridge.alanayckbourn.net/styled-8/index.html|title=Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website &#124; ''A View from The Bridge'' – Reviews|access-date=16 December 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322025542/http://aviewfromthebridge.alanayckbourn.net/styled-8/index.html|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref>

Another West End production was staged at the [[Duke of York's Theatre]], opening in previews on January 24, 2009, and officially on February 5. It ran until May 16, 2009. It was directed by [[Lindsay Posner]], with [[Ken Stott]] as Eddie, [[Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio]] as Beatrice, [[Hayley Atwell]] as Catherine and [[Harry Lloyd]] as Rodolpho.<ref>[http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/viewfromthebridge.html "''A View from the Bridge'' listing, 2009, Duke of York's Theatre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430103127/http://www.thisistheatre.com/londonshows/viewfromthebridge.html |date=2009-04-30 }} thisistheatre.com, retrieved April 4, 2010</ref>

{{visible anchor|In 2014}}, Belgian director [[Ivo van Hove]] and lead actors [[Mark Strong]] (as Eddie), [[Phoebe Fox]] (Catherine), and [[Nicola Walker]] (Beatrice) revived the play to huge success at the [[Young Vic]].<ref>Barnett, Laura, [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/13/view-from-the-bridge-young-vic-review-mark-strong "''A View from the Bridge'' review – 'visceral and vital{{'"}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123204115/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/apr/13/view-from-the-bridge-young-vic-review-mark-strong |date=2016-11-23 }} ''[[The Guardian]]'', 12 April 2014. Retrieved 2014-04-23.</ref> This revival won three [[Laurence Olivier Awards]] in April 2015, for Best Actor (Mark Strong), Best Revival, and Best Director (Ivo van Hove). The Young Vic production transferred to Broadway with its British cast intact.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2016/04/14/ivo-van-hoves-stirring-a-view-from-the-bridge-coming-to-the-kennedy-center/ "Ivo van Hove's stirring ''A View from the Bridge'' coming to the Kennedy Center"] by Peter Marks, ''[[The Washington Post]]'', April 14, 2016</ref>

In 2024, [[Lindsay Posner]] directed [[Dominic West]] as Eddie and [[Kate Fleetwood]] as Beatrice. [[Callum Scott Howells]] plays the role of Rodolpho. This production began at [[Theatre Royal, Bath|Theatre Royal Bath]] Ustinov Studio, before transferring to the [[Theatre Royal Haymarket]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=A View From The Bridge {{!}} Official Theatre Website |url=https://trh.co.uk/whatson/a-view-from-the-bridge/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |website=Theatre Royal Haymarket |language=en-GB}}</ref>

===Other revivals===
In 1992, the [[Royal Exchange, Manchester]] staged a production directed by [[Greg Hersov]] with Jonathan Hackett, [[Michael Sheen]] and Kate Byers,{{citation needed|date=February 2019}} the same year that the Royal Theatre Northampton produced an acclaimed production directed by Michael Napier-Brown, designed by Ray Lett and a cast featuring David Hargreaves (Eddie), Kathrine Schlesinger, Nicola Scott, Richard Harradine, Colin Atkins and Duncan Law.

After the Ivo van Hove 2015 production closed on Broadway, it was restaged by the Centre Theatre Group of Los Angeles with a new cast that included [[Fred Weller|Frederick Weller]] (Eddie), Andrus Nichols (Beatrice), Catherine Combs (Catherine), Alex Esola (Marco), and David Register (Rodolpho); this cast then toured to the [[Kennedy Center]] in Washington.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/LA-Cast-Set-for-Ivo-van-Hoves-A-VIEW-FROM-THE-BRIDGE-at-Kennedy-Center-20161117|title=L.A. Cast Set for Ivo van Hove's ''A View from the Bridge'' at Kennedy Center|author=BWW News Desk|website=[[BroadwayWorld]]|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/11/22/view-from-a-bridge-kennedy-center-review1/|title=Review #1: ''A View From the Bridge'' at The Kennedy Center|last1=Po|first1=Michael|last2=l|date=2016-11-22|website=DC Metro Theater Arts|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref> In 2017, van Hove directed the play at the [[Goodman Theatre]] in Chicago. Combs and Nichols reprised their roles, joined by Ian Bedford as Eddie.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.goodmantheatre.org/Templates/Pages/PlayDetails.aspx?id=7155|title=''A View from the Bridge''|website=[[Goodman Theatre]]|access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ae-fall-theater-ivo-van-hove-0910-20170910-story.html|title=Fall Theater: Ivo van Hove on ''View From the Bridge'' and being wrong about Arthur Miller|last=Jones|first=Chris|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=September 7, 2017 |access-date=2019-02-28}}</ref>
In 2023 the [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] staged a production with [[Jonathan Slinger]] as Eddie, Nancy Crane as Alfieri, Kirsty Bushell as Beatrice, Rachelle Diedericks as Catherine, and [[Luke Newberry]] as Rodolpho.

==Adaptations==

===Film===
Italian film director [[Luchino Visconti]] directed a stage version of the play in Italy in 1958. The plot of his film ''[[Rocco and His Brothers]]'' (''Rocco e i suoi fratelli''), made in 1960, has many affinities with ''A View from the Bridge''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Rohdie | first=Sam | title=Rocco and His Brothers – Rocco e i suoi fratelli | publisher= British Film Institute Publications | year=1992}}</ref>

A French-Italian film ''[[A View from the Bridge (film)|A View from the Bridge]]'' was released in February 1962. Directed by [[Sidney Lumet]], the film starred [[Raf Vallone]] and [[Maureen Stapleton]] as Eddie and Beatrice, with [[Carol Lawrence]] as Catherine.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} The film was the first time that a kiss between men was shown on screen in America, albeit in this case it is intended as an accusation of being gay, rather than a romantic expression.<ref>{{cite book|last=Russo|first=Vito|title=The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality In The Movies|year=1986|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0060961329|page=[https://archive.org/details/celluloidcloseth00russ/page/138 138]|url=https://archive.org/details/celluloidcloseth00russ/page/138}}</ref> In a major change to the plot of the play, Eddie commits suicide after being publicly beaten by Marco.

===Television===
On 4 April 1966, ITV aired ''A View from the Bridge'' as its ITV Play of the Week, of which no copies survive. Vallone also played Eddie in this version.

In 1986, the BBC aired a TV dramatisation of the play produced by Geoff Wilson.

===Opera===
[[Renzo Rossellini (composer)|Renzo Rossellini]], the brother of film director [[Roberto Rossellini]], was the first to adapt the play into an opera with his ''[[Uno sguardo dal ponte]]'', which premiered at the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]] in 1961.

In 1999, another operatic version, with music by [[William Bolcom]] and a [[libretto]] by [[Arthur Miller]], premiered at [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]] starring Kim Josephson as Eddie Carbone. The work was performed subsequently at the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in 2002, again at the [[Washington National Opera]] in 2007, and by Vertical Player Repertory Opera in 2009, starring William Browning as Eddie.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A-VIEW-FROM-THE-BRIDGE-Plays-Vertical-Player-Repertory-Theatre-1022111-20010101-page6|title=''A View from the Bridge'' Plays Vertical Player Repertory Theatre 10/22-11/1|author=BWW News Desk|website=[[BroadwayWorld]]|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180416012930/https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/A-VIEW-FROM-THE-BRIDGE-Plays-Vertical-Player-Repertory-Theatre-1022111-20010101-page6|archive-date=16 April 2018}}</ref> The opera was first performed in Europe at [[Theater Hagen]] in 2003 in German translation. The first English (original) language version produced in Europe opened at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in Rome on January 18, 2011.

===Radio===
[[L.A. Theatre Works]] released a radio adaptation of the play in 1998 featuring [[Ed O'Neill]].

BBC Radio 3 produced a radio adaptation starring [[Alfred Molina]], which was first broadcast on October 18, 2015, and then again on May 14, 2017. For his work on the production, Molina was awarded the [[BBC Audio Drama Award]] for Best Actor.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3, A View from the Bridge |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06h93s1 |website=BBC |access-date=4 November 2022}}</ref>

==Awards and nominations==

===Original Broadway production===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| 1956
| colspan="2"|[[Theatre World Award]]
| [[Richard Davalos]]
| {{won}}
|}

===1983 Broadway revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="4" align="center"| 1983
| rowspan="2"| [[Tony Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Tony Award for Best Revival|Best Revival]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play]]
| [[Tony Lo Bianco]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award]]
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play]]
| [[Alan Feinstein (actor)|Alan Feinstein]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Outer Critics Circle Award]]
| Outstanding Actor in a Play
| Tony Lo Bianco
| {{won}}
|}

===1997 Broadway revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="15" align="center"| 1998
| rowspan="4"| [[Tony Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
| [[Anthony LaPaglia]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play|Best Actress in a Play]]
| [[Allison Janney]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
| [[Michael Mayer (director)|Michael Mayer]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="6"| [[Drama Desk Award]]
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play|Outstanding Revival of a Play]]
| [[Arthur Miller]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
| Anthony LaPaglia
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
| Allison Janney
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play|Outstanding Director of a Play]]
| Michael Mayer
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design|Outstanding Sound Design]]
| Mark Bennett
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design|Outstanding Lighting Design]]
| [[Kenneth Posner]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"|[[Outer Critics Circle Award]]
| colspan="2"|Outstanding Revival of a Play
| {{won}}
|-
| Outstanding Actor in a Play
| Anthony LaPaglia
| {{won}}
|-
| Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
| Allison Janney
| {{won}}
|-
| Outstanding Director of a Play
| Michael Mayer
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama League Award]]
| colspan="2"|Distinguished Production of a Revival
| {{nom}}
|}

===2009 West End revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
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! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="4" align="center"| 2010
| rowspan="4"| [[Laurence Olivier Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival|Best Revival]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Ken Stott]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Hayley Atwell]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Lindsay Posner]]
| {{nom}}
|}

===2010 Broadway revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="13" align="center"| 2010
| rowspan="6"| [[Tony Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
| [[Liev Schreiber]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play|Best Featured Actress in a Play]]
| [[Scarlett Johansson]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Jessica Hecht]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
| [[Gregory Mosher]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Play|Best Sound Design of a Play]]
| Scott Lehrer
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[Drama Desk Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play|Outstanding Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
| Liev Schreiber
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play|Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play]]
| Scarlett Johansson
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"|[[Outer Critics Circle Award]]
| colspan="2"|Outstanding Revival of a Play
| {{nom}}
|-
| Outstanding Actor in a Play
| Liev Schreiber
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Drama League Award]]
| colspan="2"|Distinguished Revival of a Play
| {{won}}
|-
|-
| colspan="2"|[[Theatre World Award]]
| Scarlett Johansson
| {{won}}
|}

===2014 West End revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="7" align="center"| 2015
| rowspan="7"| [[Laurence Olivier Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival|Best Revival]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Mark Strong]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Actress in a Supporting Role]]
| [[Phoebe Fox]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| [[Ivo van Hove]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design|Best Set Design]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Jan Versweyveld]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design|Best Lighting Design]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Sound Design|Best Sound Design]]
| Tom Gibbons
| {{nom}}
|}

===2015 Broadway revival===
{| class="wikitable" width="95%"
|-
! width="5%"| Year
! width="25%"| Award ceremony
! width="40%"| Category
! width="20%"| Nominee
! width="10%"| Result
|-
| rowspan="15" align="center"| 2016
| rowspan="5"| [[Tony Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play|Best Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play|Best Actor in a Play]]
| [[Mark Strong]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play|Best Direction of a Play]]
| [[Ivo van Hove]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play|Best Scenic Design of a Play]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Jan Versweyveld]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Play|Best Lighting Design of a Play]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[Drama Desk Award]]
| colspan="2"| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play|Outstanding Revival of a Play]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play|Outstanding Actor in a Play]]
| Mark Strong
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Play|Outstanding Actress in a Play]]
| [[Nicola Walker]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Play|Outstanding Director of a Play]]
| Ivo van Hove
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="4"|[[Outer Critics Circle Award]]
| colspan="2"|Outstanding Revival of a Play
| {{nom}}
|-
| Outstanding Actor in a Play
| Mark Strong
| {{nom}}
|-
| Outstanding Actress in a Play
| Nicola Walker
| {{nom}}
|-
| Outstanding Director of a Play
| Ivo van Hove
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Drama League Award]]
| colspan="2"|Distinguished Revival of a Play
| {{won}}
|-
| colspan="2"|[[Theatre World Award]]
| Mark Strong
| {{won}}
|}

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book | last=Miller| first=Arthur | title=A View from the Bridge: Two One-Act Plays| edition=1st | location= New York| publisher=[[Viking Press]]| year=1955 | oclc=26621266|ref=none}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|A View from the Bridge}}
* {{IBDB show|1324}}
* {{iobdb title|3629}}
* [http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/viewbridge/context.html ''A View from the Bridge''] from [[SparkNotes]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041216085700/http://www.eriding.net/amoore/gcse/viewfromthebridge.htm Studying Arthur Miller's ''A View from the Bridge''] from eriding.net
* [http://www.shmoop.com/view-from-the-bridge/ ''A View from the Bridge''] study guide, themes, quotes, teacher resources from shmoop.com

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