A View from the Bridge NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (618)
See it if You appreciate strong and intelligent directorial vision, fine acting, artful and brilliant staging.
Don't see it if You are missing a pulse.
See it if you want to be creatively fed, and have your imagination and your ideas of Arthur Miller pushed to the limits.
Don't see it if you do not enjoy experimental staging, or the abstract.
See it if you've never seen this brilliant Miller play. Ivo Van Hove's direction and vision was brilliant and well executed by the cast
Don't see it if you are looking for something light. This is an intense adaptation, but well worth it Read more
See it if you want to be wowed by the incredible staging and acting. Hands down the best production of this play in a long time!
Don't see it if Just see it!
See it if You like bold staging when a director's concept can unearth truths and intentions which might lie hidden in more conventional interpretation
Don't see it if You believe realistic plays must be staged realistically.
See it if you want to see the best play of the season, you like Miller and haven't already, you like Greek tragedy, or you like essential human drama.
Don't see it if you want props or action. The play drips with tension and emotional power. Read more
See it if you if like classic drama re imagined.
Don't see it if if you're looking for big spectacle.
See it if you like gripping, dramatic theater that holds your attention in a refreshing staging that captures the power of the play,
Don't see it if you need 100% realistic sets in order to enjoy, don't like to pay attention to language and little details
Critic Reviews (64)
"While this may seem like a bold reimagining of an American classic by a European auteur, it's actually a lot closer to Miller's original intent…The aptly named Strong embodies those urges in his earthy, virile portrayal of Eddie…Van Hove does Miller a great honor by taking 'A View from the Bridge' out of the museum and asserting it as a living, breathing work capable of being reimagined ad infinitum, like the best plays by Shakespeare."
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"His highly-stylized mounting, like many of his creations, seems to give his vision authority over the play's content. It's different, for sure, but enlightening? Not so sure. The cold and stripped-down production has enough textual cuts that it can be called 'A View From Abridged…' There seems to be a lack of subtlety that the director imposes throughout evening."
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"It is clear that the director has built his own show on Miller's script. 'A View From the Bridge' may have been written in a relatively conventional naturalistic style, but it teems with life - ugly, vivid, and violent. Van Hove's staging freezes its emotions and arranges them into a sleek, minimalist tableau. You may very well enjoy it, but I hope that someday you get to see the play that Arthur Miller wrote. "
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"Van Hove's spin, however, does not deepen or redefine this basic struggle; it simply presents it, divorced from its anchoring location and era, as if overeager to highlight the story's timeliness...The performances are all rock-solid within a very difficult framework…This production proves that van Hove's attempts to untether 'A View From the Bridge' have only locked it away further, behind an opaque cube that, like that of his set, he'd better off lifting away."
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"Hypnotic power that is rarely seen in our theater…Van Hove’s version makes you feel that you have never seen the play before...The casting is superb and each actor’s presence is palpably felt...When 'A View from the Bridge' is over, the audience knows that it has participated in a communal act of catharsis...This production demonstrates without a doubt that this is what Arthur Miller was attempting in 'View' and has succeeded completely."
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"Van Hove has directed a classy cast to make the Carbone family and other key characters come to vivid and believable life…Mark Strong's Eddie is the magnetic centerpiece…A visually and aurally elegant production...There are a few spots between the breathtaking opening and finale that feel a bit slow without more realistic details about the neighborhood...Still, this is a a highly theatrical, not to be missed tribute to the play's durability."
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"The intense performance by Mark Strong, making his Broadway debut, supported by the rest of the outstanding cast, makes this 'View' worth viewing, but the powerful acting is not what makes this production distinct from previous versions. It’s the direction by Ivo van Hove...aggressive staging has provoked passionate and opposing reactions...Any production whose cast so engages the audience with the playwright’s words pays the ultimate respect to the playwright."
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"This is an exhilarating production, assured and perilous, abstract and concretely physical…In Mark Strong’s extraordinary and visceral performance we see a man who has become a stranger to himself, a paragon of manhood unmanned and set adrift both by his own desires and by challenges to his masculine assumptions...Strong is well supported by the other cast members, though accents can waver between south Brooklyn and north London."
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