Scarlett Johansson is to make her Broadway debut in an Arthur Miller play. (Warner Bros. Pictures) Scarlett Johansson, who starred in Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Lost in Translation, is to make her Broadway debut later this year in the Arthur Miller play A View From the Bridge.
She'll play opposite another Hollywood star — Liev Schreiber, who appeared in The Defiance and The Manchurian Candidate and won a Tony Award on Broadway for Glengarry Glen Ross.
A View From the Bridge begins previews Dec. 28 and opens officially Jan. 24, 2010, at the Cort Theatre.
Set on the New York docks in the 1950s, the play follows the lives of a close-knit community of Italian-American immigrants. Schreiber plays a longshoreman who is raising his 17-year-old niece, played by Johansson, and struggles to control his emotions when he finds he has more than a fatherly interest in her.
First staged in 1956, the play has recently had a London revival.
The production, which will be directed by Gregory Mosher, runs for just 14 weeks.
Johansson is married to Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds.
With files from the Associated Press
