A View from the Bridge tickets are causing the biggest stir of any Broadway production this year for all kinds of reasons. This production has everything: setting, emotion, intensity, violence and, of course, sex. As ever, it’s the sex that causes the trouble and A View From the Bridge builds into a deathly climax you have to see to believe.

Since Arthur Miller wrote it A View from the Bridge has seen an array of talented actors and actresses play its roles over the years, beginning with the 1955 production at Broadway’s Coronet Theatre. The story is set in 1950s-era New York, like so many other smash plays and musicals (West Side Story, Jersey Boys). It was Oklahoman Van Heflin and Eileen Heckart (herself a real-life adoptee) who played the lead roles in that first production, and people liked it; it ran for 149 performances. A View From the Bridge tickets are not a new thing!

There’s something about the charcoal color scheme and sense of hope amid despondency that haunts plays like this one. It’s a classic pallette and a monumental struggle – an older man who falls prey to self-destructive urges, mistaking his obsessive lust for something more honorable. Set between the irresistible force of Italian omerta and the immovable object that is the Brooklyn Bridge, we see a drama unfold in the black shadows where illegal aliens and insular communities feed into each other with animal magnetism and regimental order.

The play’s second incarnation appeared a decade later in the mid-60s. This time it was Dustin Hoffman acting in an Off-Broadway version, but author Arthur Miller wasn’t too impressed with the Beatle-era upstart. We had to wait until 1983 for A View From the Bridge tickets to go onsale again. This production saw Italian-American Tony Lo Bianco (“The French Conection”) take the role of Eddie Carbone and, directed by Arvin Brown, another 149-performance run proved that nearly 30 years later, A View From the Bridge was as popular as ever.

In 1997, it was the turn of another actor of Italian descent, Australian Anthony LaPaglia, to play the tragic Carbone, alongside Allison Janney and recently deceased Brittany Murphy, who played Carbone’s seventeen-year-old niece Catherine. Murphy performed the role of the orphaned girl well, probably as much due to her own youthful air and ability to project a confused clinginess as anything.

Subsequent productions in places as far apart as England, California and India bring us up to date – and this latest exciting prospect with Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber. Check out our A View From the Bridge schedule and find the tickets you need. As of now it is scheduled for a short 14-week run, so make sure you are quick to secure your tickets. Don’t miss the most powerful drama of 2010.