The shocking disappointment of “West Side Story’s” opening-weekend box-office take — a total of just $10.5 million, $1 million less than what “In the Heights” made and only $3 million ...

West Side Story is so good it makes you wish Spielberg had been making musicals for ... but has more recently transformed his true passion into his job as the head of the site's Theme Park section.

West Side Story Production: United Artists release of Robert Wise production, presented by Mirisch Pitures, in association with Screen Arts Productions. Directed by Wise and Jerome Robbins ...

“West Side Story” remains, after “The Sound of Music,” the most popular nonanimated musical film, famous throughout the world. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the film, which won 10 ...

I adored Steven Spielberg’s new filmization of “West Side Story.”I thought it undid most of the problematic aspects of the still magnificent 1961 film — including sometimes one-dimensional ...

And if West Side Story does become as successful, if not more so than the original film production, then we can be sure of one thing: Hollywood is will repeat that formula. When something works in ...

West Side Story wouldn’t be the musical it is without this song. ... This is the audience’s first real intro to the Jets and while it’s a fine song, ...

1961: The introduction of the Jets street gang takes place in several rundown blocks on New York’s West Side scheduled for demolition to make way for Lincoln Center.

With Kushner’s screenplay pushing this theme further than previous versions, it is all too apparent that this time around, West Side Story not only stands as a towering entertainment and musical ...

What author Misha Berson has done in “Something’s Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination” (Applause Books, 279 pp., $19.99) is couple a prodigious amount of ...