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Productions

• A View from the Bridge opened on Broadway as a one-act play 29 September 1955, at the Coronet Theatre (now named the Eugene O'Neill Theatre) and ran for 149 performances. Directed by Martin Ritt, the cast included Van Heflin (Eddie) and Eileen Heckart (Beatrice).^[1]

• 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 Willie Loman (a role that Hoffman would later play to great acclaim). Miller was not impressed, and later wrote that "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."^[2]

• In London, the play was first performed at the Comedy Theatre, on October 11, 1956.^{[citation needed]}

• February 3, 1983 at the Ambassador Theatre, with Tony Lo Bianco as Eddie and directed by Arvin Brown. The production ran for 149 performances.^[1]

• 1987 at the National Cottesloe Theatre, London, directed by Alan Ayckbourn, with Michael Gambon giving an acclaimed performance as Eddie. 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."^[3]

• December 14, 1997 at the Criterion Center Stage Right and transferring to the Neil Simon Theatre, the production ran for 239 performances. Directed by Michael Mayer, the cast included Anthony LaPaglia, Allison Janney, and a young Brittany Murphy.^[1][4]. The production won the Tony Award for: Best Revival of a Play; Best Leading Actor in a Play (LaPaglia); it also won Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Revival, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Janney), and Outstanding Direction of a Play.

• 2009 at the Duke of York's Theatre, London. Directed by Lindsay Posner, with Ken Stott as Eddie, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio as Beatrice, Hayley Atwell as Catherine and Harry Lloyd as Rodolpho, before touring.^{[citation needed]}

• A revival at the Cort Theatre on Broadway in 2009 starring 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 is set to close April 4, 2010.^[1][4]