A View
from the Bridge by Arthur Miller Poster photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York October 5-7, 12-14 at 8 PM October 8 & 15 at 2 PM Trueblood Theatre background |from our newsletter | press release | program | photographs |
Born
in Manhattan in 1915, Arthur Miller's career as a playwright
began at UM, where he received several Avery Hopwood awards for
his playwriting. His first play, "The Man Who Had All the
Luck," ran for only a week in 1944, but his next play, "All
My Sons', was more successful, winning the New York Drama Critics'
Circle Award in 1947. On February 10, 1949, "Death of a
Salesman" opened at the Morosco Theatre in New York, where
it garnered a second New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for
Miller as well as the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. Plays
to follow include an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "An Enemy
of the People" and "The Crucible." In 1956, "A
View from the Bridge" opened in London, a new three-act
version of a short play Miller had originally premiered on Broadway.
Miller ventured into film with his screenplay "The Misfits,"
starring Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe, his wife at the time.
Miller's next play, "After the Fall" (1964), is considered
a highly autobiographical account of his life with Monroe. That
same year Miller wrote "Incident at Vichy," followed
by "The Price" (1968), "The Creation of the World
and Other Business" (1972), "The American Clock"
(1980), "The Archbishop's Ceiling" (1986), "Ride
Down Mt. Morgan" (1991), "The Last Yankee" (1993)
and "Broken Glass" (1994). He wrote the screenplay
to the 1996 film version of "The Crucible." The Broadway
revival of "A View from the Bridge" won the Tony Award
for Best Revival of a Play. "Death of a Salesman" received
the same award in 1999. In October 1999, the Lyric Opera of Chicago
premiered an adaptation of "A View from the Bridge,"
with music composed by UM's William Bolcom and a libretto by
Arnold Weinstien.
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U-M
THEATRE DEPARTMENT CELEBRATES AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT The University of Michigan's Department of Theatre and Drama
will open its season with a spellbinding American drama by one
of the U-of-M's most famous alumni when it presents Arthur Miller's
"A View from the Bridge." This powerful and tragic
play will run for eight performances over two weeks from October
5 through October 15, at the Trueblood Theatre in Ann Arbor.
In selecting this particular title to open the Theatre Department's
2000-2001 season, consideration was given to the fact that Mr.
Miller will be celebrating his 85th birthday at the same time
that the show is in performance (Miller was born on October 7,
1915). The production is the first in a series of events including
a symposium that is being given in his honor from October 26-28
at the University. Mr. Miller will be in attendance at the symposium.
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| Program Click here to view the A View from the Bridge program as a PDF file |
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