‘A View from the Bridge’ opens on Broadway 60 years ago this hour (Sep 29 1955)

(Thursday, September 29, 1955, 7:30 p.m. EDT)A View from the Bridge, a one-act version of the Arthur Miller play (later turned it into a two-act play), opened tonight on Broadway at the Coronet Theatre (now the Eugene O’Neill Theatre) in New York.

Directed by Martin Ritt,t he production starred Van Heflin as Eddie and Eileen Heckart as Beatrice.