Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test

The Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test is our personal and highly opinionated Commuter's Guide to New York theater and cultural events, with an emphasis on Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical productions. The test is simple: is an event worth the always expensive, time consuming, and too often horrendous struggle to commute to New York City from New Jersey, Long Island, Upstate New York or Connecticut? Only truly great or near-great performances and productions may meet this stiff challenge!

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James Camner is an antiquarian dealer of autographs, manuscripts and printed music and books of Opera, Classical Music, Theater, Dance, and Film, as well as a published author of more than 10 books on the performing arts including "How to Enjoy Opera" (Simon and Schuster), "The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs" (Dover), "Stars of American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs" (Dover - with Stanley Appelbaum); was for over 20 years a reviewer for Fanfare Magazine and has written feature articles and reviews for Opera News.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

A View From The Bridge, a play by Arthur Miller at the Cort Theater. Directed by Gregory Mosher; starring Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Hecht. Every season we go to the theater in New York hoping that the performance will be really great, really special, a winner in every way, but it rarely happens. But when it does, like it did tonight in this magnificent, note perfect revival of "A View from the Bridge" it makes it all worth it. We saw the perfectly decent revival of nearly ten years ago with Anthony LaPaglia, but it wasn't even close to what we saw tonight from the towering Liev Schreiber, the most gifted American actor of his generation, Jessica Hecht, the superb veteran, and the beautiful Scarlett Johansson who, in a breakout-heartbreaking performance has answered all doubts about whether she belonged in such an acting company. As the attorney and chorus, Michael Cristofer was splendid. Sets and costumes were realistic and made for an ideal staging. This is as good as it gets. Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test Grade A+

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