by Arthur Miller, directed by David R. Gammons
Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge explores the complex reality of the immigrant experience and the pursuit of the American Dream. In an Italian enclave where loyalty is everything, forbidden desire wracks a family and their tight-knit community.
Apollinaire Theatre is thrilled to welcome David R. Gammons who the Boston Globe hailed for guiding “some of the most memorable Speakeasy productions of the past decade.” With a multi-national cast of Boston stand-outs, he brings a timely perspective to this timeless classic.
From the Director: – David R. Gammons
On A View From the Bridge, 2026
We find ourselves in a truly extraordinary American moment: culturally, politically, artistically. Such moments invite us to both reflect and respond.
I think the great national playwrights of the heart of the previous century — O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee — still have much to teach us about the promises and failures of the imagined American Dream.
Arthur Miller’s 1955 masterpiece A View From the Bridge remains as raw and relevant as ever. Miller’s near-mythic tale of undocumented immigrants arriving on these fateful shores — equally hopeful and desperate — explores our deepest responsibilities to family and community, trapped within the fraught reality of limited economic opportunity and genuine danger of deportation.
Indeed, as our ensemble gathered in January to begin work on this compelling and provocative text, we were confronted with a series of chilling current events that made a 70-year-old play feel positively ripped from the headlines.
The legendary acting teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky once said “When we are on stage, we are in the here and now.” And so, here we are: navigating a world on stage that celebrates that fundamental theatrical “bothness” — that we are simultaneously in the vividly etched 1950’s Brooklyn of Miller’s extraordinary imagination, and in the complex reality of Apollinaire’s unique Chelsea neighborhood in 2026 America. We revel in the language and imagery of Miller’s play, by turns artfully poetic and brutally naturalistic, even as we share the immediacy and variability of our true emotions — outrage and fear, determination and optimism, vulnerability and courage.
I feel deeply honored to have the opportunity to shepherd this creative process and bring this powerful American document to life. I can only do so in active conversation and artistic collaboration with a richly diverse and wildly talented team of actors, designers, and technicians. It is my hope that this astonishing play, and our freshly-conceived production, will offer this community incentive for reflection, understanding, and action.
Performances of A View from the Bridge are February 20-March 22, 2026
Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. at 3:00
Press Performance: Saturday Feb. 21, 8:00
Performances are at the Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
Performances will be followed by a Reception with the actors.
Tickets are $65, $60 seniors, $25 students, patrons age 30 and under, and artists pursing professional arts careers
Tickets can be purchased by calling (617) 887-2336 or on-line at www.apollinairetheatre.com
Information and directions at www.apollinairetheatre.com
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
February 20-March 22, 2026Chelsea Theatre Works, 189 Winnisimmet St., Chelsea.
(617) 887-2336 • www.apollinairetheatre.com
Cast:
Jorge Rubio as Eddie
Sehnaz Dirik as Beatrice
Naomi Kim as Catherine
Andres Molano Sotomayor as Rodolfo
Rohan Misra as Marco
Dev Luthra as Alfieri
Andre Meservey as Mike
David J. Kim as Louis
Miguel Dominguez as Immigration Officer
Gabriel Pagan as Immigration Officer
Directed by David R. Gammons
Stage Manager: Kaleb Perez
ASM: Miguel Dominguez, Gabriel Pagan
Scenic & Sound Design: Joseph Lark-Riley
Costume Design: Elizabeth Rocha
Lighting Design: Kevin Fulton
Fights & Intimacy: Allison Choat
Running Time: estimated 2 hours
David R. Gammons (Director) is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator. He enjoys working with bold and adventurous collaborators, and is thrilled to join the Apollinaire Theatre community to work with this incredible cast and design team. His directing and design work has been seen in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and abroad with SpeakEasy Stage Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, The New Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Cambridge Chamber Ensemble, The American Repertory Theatre, The Poets’ Theatre, Headlong Dance Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre, and many others. David is a graduate of the Directing Program at the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, and of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University. His varied academic posts have included teaching courses at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, MIT, Virginia Tech, Suffolk University, Northeastern University, and Concord Academy, where he proudly served as Director of the Theatre Program for 15 years. He is a three-time winner of the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director. Please visit davidrgammons.com.
Arthur Miller (Playwright, 1915 – 2005) is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest dramatists. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). Miller received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, two Tony Awards for Best Author and a Special Tony Award, and a National Medal of Arts. He was honored with the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for a Master American Dramatist, and the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government’s highest honor for achievement in the humanities.
Apollinaire Theatre Company creates unique encounters with plays that inspire and entertain. Our programs -Teatro Chelsea, Apollinaire Play Lab, Apollinaire in the Park, Resident Artist Program- complement our production season and cultivate an ecosystem of artists of all ages and career stages in our home for adventurous art, the Chelsea Theatre Works.
Apollinaire productions include our summer immersive bilingual productions The Suppliant Women, Hamlet, And Your Little Dog Too, and Romeo and Juliet, and Is This a Room by conceived and adapted by Tina Satter, Touching the Void adapted by David Greig, Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan, Don’t Eat the Mangos by Ricardo Pérez González (co-production with Teatro Chelsea), Dance Nation by Clare Barron, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven by Young Jean Lee, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig.
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