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A View From the Bridge opened on Broadway on September 29, 1955 at the Coronet Theatre. This production appeared in a joint bill with A Memory of Two Mondays.
In 1956, the play was revised into two acts and performed at the Comedy Theatre in London.
A movie version of A View From the Bridge, directed by Sidney Lumet is released in 1961, title "Vu du Pont".

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Dustin Hoffman acted as assistant director and stage manager for the 1965 Off-Broadway production of the play at the Sheridan Square Playhouse in NYC.
In 1983, A View From the Bridge was revived on Broadway at the Ambassador Theatre starring Tony LoBianco.
Roundabout Theatre Company revives of A View From the Bridge in 1997, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Allison Janney, and Brittany Murphy. The production garnered several nominations and won the Tony Award© and Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a play.

An opera of A View From the Bridge, with music by William Bolcom and a libretto by Arthur Miller, premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999 and went on to play at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2002.
The play was performed by drama students in the Hindi language in November, 2005, at Faculty of Performing Arts in India, in a production that was acclaimed by well-known critics.
A View From the Bridge opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in London in 2009, starring, Ken Stott, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Hayley Atwell and Harry Lloyd.

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Arthur Miller

ARTHUR MILLER (1915-2005)

was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time. Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters' Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and Finishing the Picture (2004). Other works include Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits, a screenplay (1960), and the texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977), and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books with photographs by his wife, Inge Morath. Memoirs include Salesman in Beijing (1984), and Timebends, an autobiography (1988). Short fiction includes the collection I Don't Need You Anymore (1967), the novella, Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2001. He was awarded the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and the 2003 Jerusalem Prize. He received honorary degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University and was awarded the Prix Moliere of the French theatre, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pulitzer Prize, as well as numerous other awards.

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