The West End company is led by Luke Brady (as Hercules), alongside Mae Ann Jorolan (Meg), Trevor Dion Nicholas (Phil), Stephen Carlile (Hades), Craig Gallivan (Bob), Lee Zarrett (Charles), and the ...

Related Midwest announced the opening of three new residential buildings in Phase 3B of Roosevelt Square, the developer’s 67-acre multiphase redevelopment on Chicago’s Near West Side.

When West Side Story premiered on Broadway, in 1957, it brought a distinct new energy to American musical theatre. Its story, a modern version of Romeo and Juliet, from a book by Arthur Laurents ...

West Side Story has become the best-selling show of all time at the Lyric Opera House, and next week, it opens for a limited engagement. On Monday, we get to take you behind the scenes. "It's epic.

So ‘West Side Story’ is bringing back wonderful memories.” Stewart, who grew up in Harlem, says the show plays out on the streets of New York in a familiar way. “Tony’s young.

The opening of “West Side Story,” both the 1961 and 2021 films, is not a song or a dialogue scene or even a traditional overture; it’s a dance.And it’s not just a dance — it’s a plunge ...

Ariana DeBose made her Saturday Night Live debut as host this week, detailing in her opening monologue her Golden Globe win for playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’s rendition of West Side Story ...

Virtually every element in this more ominous and visceral “West Side Story” is doing heavy lifting to correct the historical record that had, for example, cast white actors as Puerto Rican ...

The original “West Side Story,” beloved though it may be, was hardly perfect. Casting the white actress Natalie Wood as Puerto Rican heroine Maria was, in historical hindsight, a huge blunder.

In 1957, "West Side Story" stunned Broadway audiences. In 1961, the film adaptation won 10 Oscars. So why did the new Steven Spielberg film version lay an egg?

Recently I went to a Seattle cineplex to see the new “West Side Story” film. But my dance with the show didn’t start there. It all began in 1959. I was an artsy nine-year old girl living in ...