Liev Schreiber Eyes A View from the Bridge on Broadway

Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber may be returning to the Broadway stage in Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge, according the New York Post. The drama, directed by Chicago stalwart and Rialto veteran Gregory Mosher, will return in spring 2010 at a Broadway theater to be announced, according to the paper.

Schreiber would play the role of Red Hook, Brooklyn, dockworker Eddie Carbone, whose happy American Dream is shattered by the arrival of his wife’s illegal Italian immigrant cousins. The play originally debuted in a double bill alongside A Memory of Two Mondays at the Coronet Theatre in September 1955, playing 149 performances before closing on February 4, 1956. The show was successfully revived almost twenty years later in February 1983 at the Ambassador Theater, where it repeated its original run of 149 performances before closing on June 12, 1983. In 1962, a Sidney Lumet-helmed movie adaptation hit the big screen, starring Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton and Carol Lawrence.

A View from the Bridge was last revived in 1997, starring Anthony LaPaglia in a Tony Award winning turn as Carbone, recent Tony Award nominee Allison Janney as his long-suffering wife Beatrice and Brittany Murphy as Catherine. The production also won the Tony for Best Revival that year.

Schreiber won a 2005 Tony Award for his performance in Broadway’s revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. Additional credits include Talk Radio, Betrayal and In the Summer House. Off-Broadway, the actor has appeared in The Public Theater’s Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet, Henry V, Cymbeline and The Tempest. Schreiber is best known for his extensive film resume, which includes Scream, Defiance, Lackawanna Blues, The Manchurian Candidate, Hamlet, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the upcoming Taking Woodstock.