Ivo van Hove's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE to Play the Kennedy Center This Fall

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced it will present, in association with Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, the Young Vic's 2015 Olivier Award-winning production of Arthur Miller's A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE from November 18 through December 3, 2016, in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. The press opening night is Monday, November 21, 2016.

Internationally renowned Belgian theater director Ivo van Hove helms this production. He previously directed Antigone in the Kennedy Center's 2015-2016 season.

Kennedy Center Theater subscriptions for the 2016-2017 season go on sale in early May 2016.

This production of A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE is produced by Center Theatre Group, and will tour exclusively to the Kennedy Center following the Los Angeles engagement. Direct from its hit run on Broadway, this dark and passionate tale of family, love, and duplicity explores 1950s America in a small Italian-American Brooklyn neighborhood. Longshoreman Eddie Carbone is obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine. When she falls in love with a newly arrived immigrant, Eddie spirals into a jealous rage that consumes him, his family, and his world.

Ivo van Hove, General Director of Holland's leading theater company Toneelgroep Amsterdam, made his Broadway debut with A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, and received the Olivier Award for the Young Vic production, which transferred to the West End in 2015. He has staged many internationally acclaimed productions, including Obie Award-winners More Stately Mansions and Hedda Gabler. His second Miller production on Broadway this season, The Crucible, recently opened in March.

Conceived in the 1960s' spirit of iconoclasm and improvisation, the Young Vic opened in 1970 as a place in which younger directors, designers, actors, writers, and technicians could work alongside the world's great theater artists to present exciting productions at the lowest possible prices. Over the last 40 years, the company has established a powerful reputation at home and abroad. In particular, the Young Vic has begun to be recognized as a major theater in which young directors can develop and practice their art.

Center Theatre Group, a non-profit organization, is one of the largest and most active theater companies in the nation, programming subscription seasons year-round at the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to providing theater of the highest caliber to the diverse communities of Southern California and beyond, CTG supports a significant number of play development and arts education initiatives.

Photo Credit: Jan Versweyveld