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Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s ‘West Side Story’ is keenly aware of the criticisms elicited by prior iterations and loudly raises questions that other stagings didn’t dare.

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0h, isee. ive not seen it on stage. ive not seen the film because i think of it as a stage musical. yeah, well, ive never seen the stage production. so, this is a new version, obviously was filmed in the �*60s by robert wise and jerome robbins. so, this is a new version by steven spielberg, which on the one hand, its a reimagining. there is centrally, in terms of the casting, it does away with a lot of the casting issues of the originalfilm. it has a couple of terrific performances. rachel zeg...

Yeah, well, ive never seen the stage production. so this is a new version, obviously was filmed in the �*60s by robert wise and jerome robbins. so this is a new version by steven spielberg, which on the one hand, its a reimagining. there is centrally, in terms of the casting, it does away with a lot of the colour casting issues it does away with a lot of the casting issues of the originalfilm. it has a couple of terrific performances. rachel zegler�*s terrific, ariana debose is really, reall...

What did you do to get authentic representation of characters in your film? i mean, you were quite fastidious in that respect, when she? it was just that... that was our casting director who did just an amazing job at putting together the cast for us for enough selection for me to be able to select from. the first thing i said was every single shark, boy and girl, needs to come from the latin communities without fail. because im never going to say that anything that happened with the robert wise...

Were so rife with reboots and remakes today that it can take a moment to gauge just what Steven Spielbergs “West Side Story” is. It isnt a papered-over modernizing or

Three criminologists say the 1961 film 'West Side Story' popularized fictions about gangs — and wrongly influenced public opinion and public policy.

The musical West Side Story is forever young. Leonard Bernstein's glorious music celebrates the yo ...

Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner’s remake allows for thoughtful adjustments to the original 1961 musical, but its central couple never really convince as do-or-die soulmates.

Our critics hash out Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 classic.