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Liev Schreiber is an American actor who has become a household name for major Broadway fans. He is an incredibly talented and critically recognized theatre actor who is also successful and skilled in other genres such as film. He recently made his debut as a film director with his work on Everything is Illuminated, which he also wrote. He is incredibly popular with theatre audiences and has had an amazingly successful recent span of years on Broadway, though he much of his early work was on independent films.

He is currently starring in a production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge at the Cort Theatre on West 48th Street. Scarlett Johansson is starring opposite Schreiber and it is reported that they make an incredible onstage team. Their character relationship is of a double orientation. It is familial based though it develops into an incredibly controversial nature through the course of the play. This is one of Miller’s examples of creating amazing suspense though most of the play is laid out in advance and there are really no surprises in the script.

Schreiber recently won a Tony Award for his Broadway efforts. He received the coveted stage actor’s award in 2005 for his work on David Mamet’s play Glengarry Glenn Ross. This was another incredibly edgy and suspenseful script, something Mamet is well known for. This play takes place, to a large extent, in a Chicago real estate office and deals with corruption and competition in that field. The play was written in 1982 and had its original Broadway premiere in March of 1984. The revival production, which starred Schreiber, was incredibly successful both critically and with the audiences, and a large number of them were in town staying at one of the hotels in New York and were lucky enough to catch that show.