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The Arts Intel Report

West Side Story

Feb 20 – Sept 6, 2020
1681 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, United States

Just more than a year after the centennial celebration of the 1918 births of Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins, there’s a West Side Story free-for-all. Steven Spielberg has hired the choreographer Justin Peck to work on a new film version of the 1957 musical. And on Broadway, West Side Story comes back with choreography by the minimalist Belgian, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, a key talent in the team that’s reimagining the masterpiece. Ivo van Hove directing. —L.J.

Previews begin December 10, 2019.

Dharon E. Jones and the cast of West Side Story. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.