2.When it came time to do chemistry reads for potential Tony, Maria, Anita, Riff, and Bernardo casting choices, six scenes were chosen to use. They were the bridal shop scene with Maria, Tony, and ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Duke Kim’s interpretation of Tony is clean and simple. He brings the ...

Legendary actress Rita Moreno, this year’s George Eastman Award recipient, will appear at a screening of “West Side Story” ...

Mean Streets “West Side Story” by Bondo Wyszpolski Here’s a show that shouldn’t be here. LA Opera opened its 40th season not ...

Los Angeles Opera opens James Conlon's final season as music director with 'West Side Story' in Francesca Zambello's ...

St Finian’s College welcomed Gerard Sweeney, president of the Amateur Irish Musicals Society (AIMS), to present the cast with ...

The production, created specifically for grand opera houses, has its West Coast premiere Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: “Restoring the original scale and glory to certain pieces … is what ...

“When I was a kid, hearing the Jets hurl all that negativity toward Latinos, I learned a lot of slurs. It had a big impact on me,” soprano Gabriella Reyes tells Observer about seeing the movie for the ...

Elvis' involvement in West Side Story as Tony is one of the oldest rumors attached to the iconic movie. According to West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic, it's rumored ...

Steven Spielberg called it the most daunting film of his career. Stephen Sondheim said his own lyrics made him cringe. When talking about West Side Story - among the most enduring stage and screen ...