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A “woke” remake that peddles in symbolic representation is not the film Puerto Ricans deserve.

Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler star in the 2021 version of "West Side Story."

How will things end for Eve and Villanelle? Plus: a night of Mariah Carey ballads and bangers. Here’s what to watch this evening

Steven Spielberg reboots Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical, while Keira Knightley and Jessie Buckley plot to bring down the patriarchy

It may have struggled to find its audience whilst in cinemas, but West Side Story is Spielberg's best in years, writes Ian Freer. Read why at Empire.

The 2021 adaptation of West Side Story has just been released on Disney Plus and fans want to know if that is Ansel Elgort singing in the musical.

See for yourself as it lands on Disney+ (*whispers* but it totally is)

Jordan Strafer is a Brooklyn-based artist who works primarily in video. Her art has been featured in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe, including Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Red Tracy, Copenhagen; and Housing, New Museum, and SculptureCenter, all in New York. Between 2020 and 2021, she presented the web-based project No Bag for Participant Inc, New York. This year, Strafer staged her first solo exhibition, “PUNCHLINE,” at Participant Inc, centering on her ...

Oscar nominee Ariana DeBose on her portrayal of Anita in Spielberg's 'West Side Story' and why it's time to retire the term 'ethnically ambiguous.'

In 1957, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, and Stephen Sondheim debuted a modernized musical version of "Romeo and Juliet" called "West Side Story," which was set in New Yorks Upper West Side between rival gangs of different ethnicities. Robbins would then help Robert Wise adapt it into a film in 1961, which went on to win 10 Academy Awards — a record for a musical.