An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. Read more: Plot summary | Synopsis Director Steven Spielberg Writers Tony Kushner (screenplay by) | Arthur ...
Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner Tony Kushner,...
Laurents was in Hollywood working on the screenplay ofThe Painted Veil, a re-working of Greta Garbo’s 1934 hit, to star Ava Gardner. Bernstein was in Los Angeles conducting at the Hollywood Bowl. The two got together and talk soon turned to the recent outbreak of racially-motivated gang ...
calls the jets—both groups lose to the gentrifying rich. yet the youths of west side story —especially as they appear in spielberg’s superb retelling, with a smart and sensitive screenplay by the playwright tony kushner—don’t care for inevitabilities. it’s the possible they’re after ...
Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner Tony Kushner, “West Side Story” tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City. This reimagining of the beloved musical stars Ansel Elgort (To...
Spielberg, and Kushner’s screenplay does that over and over; recontextualizing Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents’ initial production to tease out the ideas that were always there under the surface. The fight between the Jets and Sharks, for example, is now less about territory than ...
Spielberg, and Kushner’s screenplay does that over and over; recontextualizing Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents’ initial production to tease out the ideas that were always there under the surface. The fight between the Jets and Sharks, for example, is now less about territory than ...
The single most transforming element is Tony Kushner’s screenplay. Ernest Lehman’s original script was more or less a vehicle for getting from one song to the next, sometimes by the corniest route possible. Kushner’s screenplay not only explains motivations, but it also does...
"West Side Story" opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, December 10. Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award® winner Tony Kushner, "West Side Story" tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York...
Spielberg, and Kushner’s screenplay does that over and over; recontextualizing Robbins, Bernstein, Sondheim, and Laurents’ initial production to tease out the ideas that were always there under the surface. The fight between the Jets and Sharks, for example, is now less about territory than ...