Fifty years ago tonight, the ground-breaking musical West Side Story premiered on Broadway. While it has become an indelible part of American culture, with a film adaptation and well-loved songs ...

It's been more than three years since South Bend Civic Theatre began to plan for an April 2020 production of the iconic musical "West Side Story," featuring the South Bend Symphony Orchestra in a ...

Last night's opening of the National Tour of the revival of WEST SIDE STORY at the Broward Center, reminded me how deliriously exciting musical theater can be. The presentation of these hoodlums ...

For his new take on "West Side Story," director Steven Spielberg sort of splits the difference — he pulls from the beloved 1961 movie musical as well as the original Broadway stage show ...

His own recording was his corrective, released 23 long years later, by which time “West Side Story” had gotten somewhat stale as a stage show. The once-groundbreaking 1957 Broadway musical had ...

Fifty years ago, the film version of the acclaimed Broadway musical West Side Story premiered in theaters across the country. Like the original production, the film set Shakespeare's Romeo and ...

So that was really my true love and I just knew that was also what my true dream was, to someday be able to reimagine West Side Story.” If making a musical could be considered Spielberg’s last ...

"West Side Story," became something of a worldwide sensation when it won 10 Oscars — still the most ever for a big-screen adaptation of a musical. Among the fans of that groundbreaking teen ...

Today, the 1957 musical “West Side Story” makes its return to Broadway in a radically reconceived new production by director Ivo van Hove. It’s a show that millions of people have seen ...

Love the movie of “West Side Story”? Never seen the musical done live? There are several good reasons why any major “West Side Story” fan should grab a chance to see the show in revival ...

Where this “Story” occasionally walks into West Side Highway traffic is screenwriter ... of the most beautiful songs ever written in a musical, yet here it’s a shrug. That’s a shame ...

Steven Spielberg decided to bring the 1957 Broadway musical and 1961 Hollywood film West Side Story back to life. In an epic re-imagining, Spielberg has stuck exceptionally close to the original ...