According to the company's statement the play "is not a sequel ... a commission to develop a new musical, MARIA, a response to cultural appropriation in West Side Story, focused on what happens ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle ... I'm not that color': Rita Moreno pushed back against dark makeup in original 'West Side Story' The musical historically had its romantic leads ...

HOLLYWOOD -- Filmmaker Steven Spielberg's take on the classic musical "West Side Story" takes him back ... Spielberg chose newcomer Rachel Zegler to play his leading lady, Maria.

For sixty-plus years, the challenge for anyone attempting an “update” of the great 1957 musical “West Side Story” was ... threatened by law enforcement play on the screen.

Most people are familiar with ‘West Side Story’ through the play or movie,” he said. That a musical about star-crossed lovers being performed on Valentine’s weekend is not lost on the ...

That stage show, of course, was a monument to four giants of musical theater ... Spielberg universe To play Tony and Maria, the fateful couple at the heart of “West Side Story,” Spielberg ...

However, for the play, Laurents loosely took ... And I think that is the tragedy of West Side Story. It is an anti-racist, democratic musical." For the original musical, Bernstein, Sondheim ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Ranked: All of Steven Spielberg's movies (including new musical 'West Side Story') Newcomer Rachel Zegler, who stars as Spielberg’s ...

I think we all had fun bringing this story to life. Fox News: It’s been said that Elvis Presley really wanted to play Tony in "West Side Story" but his manager Colonel Parker was against it.

While "West Side Story" debuted more ... referring to the David Mamet play. "Nunsense," Nov. 8-Jan. 12, Stackner Cabaret. Dan Goggin's popular musical comedy about the Little Sisters of ...

"West Side Story" is a musical inspired by William Shakespeare's (1564-1616) play, "Romeo and Juliet," which is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City ...

From Rachel Zegler to Ansel Elgort, meet the 2021 'West Side Story' cast ... (based on the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name and inspired by Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet) follows ...