Scarlett Johansson and Liev Schreiber to hit Broadway

In her Broadway debut, Scarlett Johanssen will star alongside Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber, in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge. The suppressed sexuality in this play is pretty stunning, Schreiber told Reuters. Schreiber plays Brooklyn longshoreman Eddie Carbone, who becomes obsessed with his 17-year-old niece Catherine, played by Scarlett Johansson. Carbone has raised his orphaned niece, but becomes jealous when Catherine falls in love with an illegal immigrant, Rodolpho. When Catherine decides to marry Rodolpho, Eddie's jealousy consumes and ultimately destroys him. Schreiber said he spent most of his career acting in more formal plays by playwrights like Shakespeare or Mamet, where the language tends to be non-naturalistic. Playing a character like Eddie, was a big shift and a challenging one. Johansson and Schreiber are in rehearsals for the production, which will have a limited 14-week run. The actress and singer said the role didn't feel a natural fit at first, but after some thought and discussion with Liev she decided to go for it. Now, as the opening date gets closer, the native New Yorker was starting to feel the excitement of appearing on Broadway. A View From The Bridge opens at the Cort Theater on January 24, 2010.