By Viviana Vargas. Viviana Vargas compares West Side Story and La Carreta by looking at the history of Puerto Ricans migrating to New York to better understand an example of cultural appropr…
BroadwayWorld presents a comprehensive weekly roundup of regional stories around our Broadway World, which include videos, editor spotlights, regional reviews and more. This week, we feature…
As Angels in America plays London's National Theatre and eyes a Broadway bow, scribe Tony Kushner is keeping busy. In a recent interview with The Daily Beast, Kushner revealed …
The Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America playwright is at work on several projects, including a play about President Donald Trump and a musical with Jeanine Tesori.
In a recent interview with Daily Beast, playwright Tony Kushner chats about one of his current projects-WEST SIDE STORY. Kushner is rewriting the book for the classic movie for director Stev…
What would summer be without "West Side Story" at some small Connecticut theater? The Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim/Robbins street fight is at the Ivoryton Playhouse, 103 Main St., Ivoryton (E…
By Douglas Mayo
West Side Story with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by a then-aspiring young lyricist (although he wanted to write both music and lyrics) Step…
All Photos by DigiSmiles Photography [Click any photo to enlarge] Something quite remarkable is happening at the Owen Theatre in Conroe, Texas. For those within the sound of my journalistic …
"West Side Story" will be screened at BAM in New York on May 21, 2017.The award-winning 1961 adaptation of the classic "Romeo and Juliet" is directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise and st…
'I like to be in America' when I get the chance to see “West Side Story,” directed by Liz Boyer Hunnicutt and presented by Children's Playhouse of Maryland. With a sweeping score…
Superbly staged, though-provoking and heartbreaking all at once, Richard Israel's direction is fluid"giving rise to excellent continuity from one scene into the next. The world he paints is …
A SUBURBAN WEST SIDE STORY Sadly, hate conquers all in West Side Story, but the love we see and feel can hold its own. Though over a half-century old, the Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim/Robbins…
Earlier this season, The Media Theatre presented Shakespeare's classic Romeo & Juliet. Now they're concluding their 2016-2017 season with a production of West Side Story, the musi…
