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The Oscar winner and Tony winner will reunite in fall 2027 after co-starring in the Off-Broadway premiere of the play, which Hanks co-wrote, in fall 2025.

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Get to know the "Four Horsemen" in the illusion spectacle based on the hit film franchise, two of whom perform on Broadway for the first time.

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Get into the holiday spirit by seeing a production of Charles Dickens's classic tale about a miser who finds Christmas cheer with the help of three ghosts.

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Miranda and Eisa Davis co-wrote the new musical, which reimagines the 1979 action film, premiering at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in early March.

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The Sharks and the Jets go head to head in “West Side Story,” the classic 1957 musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. As a race war between the dueling gangs brews over turf on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Tony and Maria meet at a school dance and fall in love at first sight. Standing in the way of their budding romance, however, is that Maria is the brother of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks, while Tony stands with the Jets.
 
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet” and adapted for the screen in 1961, the musical masterpiece receives a makeover for the 21st century. Helmed by acclaimed Belgian-born artists director Ivo van Hove (the Tony Award-winning director of 2015’s “A View From the Bridge”) and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (celebrated for her work with the dance company Rosas), the 2020 Broadway revival will be the first major New York staging to deviate from original director Jerome Robbins’ iconic choreography.

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## What to watch for
Director Ivo van Hove says the reason for changing Jerome Robbins’ choreography is to offer a “new take” aligned with the 21st century. “If you want to make a production now for today,” he told Deadline, “we need also to integrate [new] choreography.”

Though this is the first New York production featuring new choreography, the 2009 Broadway revival of “West Side Story” included Spanish translations of certain lyrics written by “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

Director van Hove and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker have admired each other’s work since the 1980s, but “West Side Story” marks their first collaboration.

Lyricist Stephen Sondheim wanted “West Side Story” to be the first Broadway musical to use the F-word (in the song “Gee, Officer Krupke”), but it was changed after the song was played for producers.

The musical is also being re-envisioned for the screen, with a film adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg slated to be released on Dec. 18, 2020 — with a handful of actors appearing in both.

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West Side Story&nbsp;will not return to Broadway.&nbsp;West Side Story&nbsp;played its final performance at the Broadway Theatre on March 11, 2020."Something's Coming..." Tony Award winner Ivo van Hove directed&nbsp;a brand new production of the timeless Bernstein/Laurents/Sondheim musical&nbsp;West Side Story, featuring -&nbsp;for the first time ever in the United States -&nbsp;all-new choreography by the internationally acclaimed Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.West Side Story changed the face of musical theatre forever when it debuted on the Great White Way in 1957 and, over six decades later, its score (featuring music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim in his Broadway debut) still features some of the most iconic and best known standards in Broadway history, including the likes of "Maria," "Tonight," "America,"&nbsp;and "Somewhere."Inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Arthur Laurents' book follows two star-crossed lovers in the Upper West Side neighborhood of New York City in the 1950s, where tensions are rising between two rival gangs of different ethnic backgrounds - the Jets and the Sharks. Tony is a former member of the Jets (an&nbsp;American gang) and best friend of its leader, Riff, whilst Maria is the sister of Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks (a gang of Puerto Rican heritage). Tony and Maria fall in love despite the backdrop of social issues, spurred on by racism and violence, and the romantically tragic story unfolds.This production marked&nbsp;the fifth Broadway revival of the epochal tuner and delivered&nbsp;a unique&nbsp;West Side Story. Ever since its genesis and its legendary 1961 film adaptation, the musical has been synonymous with the choreography of Jerome Robbins (who also conceived and directed the Broadway premiere). Introducing American audiences to all-new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a bold move that hopefully re-invents the essence of West Side Story for a new generation of theatregoers. And speaking of re-invention, when it comes to theatrical innovation, the visionary director Ivo van Hove excels in his field. If his imaginative takes on the Arthur Miller classics A View from the Bridge and The Crucible or the 1976 Paddy Chayefsky film "Network" are anything to go by, then West Side Story is in for a makeover of a lifetime.The lyric "There's a place for us / Somewhere a place for us..." couldn't resonate any louder than it does in the current American political and social climate. Yes, "Something's Coming" for sure. Are you ready for it, America?(Photos by Julieta Cervantes /&nbsp;Jan Versweyveld​)

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After mamboing into musical theater history in 1957,&nbsp;<a href="/show/west-side-story">West Side Story</a>&nbsp;has rumbled back again in a reimagined revival by Belgian director Ivo van Hove so packed with wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling video that it's like a new hybrid. Call it a Broadway vidsical.While you're at it, call this provocative yet mixed production at the <a href="/theatres/broadway-theatre">Broadway Theatre</a> wildly visceral, ultra gritty and at times frustratingly at odds with itself.This musical— created by Jerome Robbins (choreography and concept), Leonard Bernstein (music), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), and Arthur Laurents (book) —is one that virtually everyone knows, which makes it ripe for a fresh take. The plot is the same: Star-crossed, blood-spattered sweethearts Tony and Maria— based on&nbsp;Romeo &amp; Juliet&nbsp;—face love and war on New York City's mean streets. Those surroundings are meaner than ever. The Sharks and Jets punks are rougher, more violent, and, as dressed in costumes by An D'Huys, practically interchangeable. Presumably that's a choice: They're not offing each other, they're killing themselves.It's no wonder "I Feel Pretty" has been jettisoned— there's no place in this harsh wasteland for a flighty fantasy. The soaring "Somewhere" remains, but exactly where this vision unfolds is unclear. The west side of ...The Bronx? A Gerard Avenue&nbsp;sign suggest that, while grim, vacant streets throw off a horror-movie vibe. Projected time stamps— 10pm... Midnight —drum up dread like "The Shining."As the action unfolds, actors are seen in and around Jan Versweyveld's boxy little drugstore, bridal shop and bedroom sets situated at the back of the stage. They're also seen in magnified video projected simultaneously onto a screen taking up the whole rear wall of the theatre. Designed by Luke Halls, the video, live and recorded, looms so large that a gang member's flaring nostrils can be seen from the nosebleeds seats, if not from space. Where to look? At the video? At the actors? It's like watching a drive-in movie indoors, with people interacting on a huge screen.As a result, intimacy, especially in the essential love story, gets lost. Fortunately, Isaac Powell and Shereen Pimentel, as Tony and Maria, are strong actors and singers and still put their own stamps on the parts. As rival gang leaders, Dharon E. Jones and Amar Ramasa, a controversial casting choice due to his involvement in a #MeToo-style scandal, bring required intensity.Van Hove (<a href="/show/network">Network</a>,&nbsp;The Damned)&nbsp;has become synonymous with video effects. It's tempting to dismiss his go-to device as having totally jumped the Sharks--and the Jets. But not quite. Video imagery turns the intricately constructed, elaborately textured "Tonight" into a thrilling multilayered highlight. If only all of the video worked so well.It doesn't. "Gee, Officer Krupke," a silly number thumbing its nose and diminishing authority in comic fashion, fights with footage highlighting police brutality. During "America," led by Anita (Yesenia Ayala), a montage of images of a tattered U.S. flag, stormy Puerto Rican beaches, and so on, distracts from the choreography, a high-octane blend of ballet and angry street moves by Anne Teresa De Keesmaeker.Even with issues, the 2020 vision of&nbsp;West Side Story&nbsp;reveals the durability of the musical, depth and beauty of the songs and the stubbornly evergreen message. When it comes to life's hard realities, this show is more apt to offer a reminder than a diversion.(Photo by&nbsp;Jan Versweyveld)<div class="block block-block contextual-links-region " id="block-block-9"><div class="block-inner clearfix"><div class="block-title"><h2>WHAT THE OTHER CRITICS SAID</h2></div></div></div>"No one should be surprised to hear that Ivo van Hove has blown up West Side Story.&nbsp;This industrious, experimental director is celebrated, after all, for taking an artistic detonator to sacred classics — by authors like Shakespeare, Molière, Miller and O'Neill — and letting the pieces fly. But the blowing up I'm talking about in this curiously unaffecting reimagining of a watershed musical, which opened on Thursday night at the Broadway Theater,&nbsp;is the kind associated with photography, the process by which a picture is enlarged to outsize proportions." Ben Brantley&nbsp;for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/20/theater/west-side-story-review-sharks-vs-jets-vs-video.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a>"Van Hove's&nbsp;West Side Story&nbsp;is likely to divide admirers of the show into warring camps. But the revival approaches the show with the confidence of knowing that it does not need to be definitive. There will be other&nbsp;West Side Storys, including Stephen Spielberg's film later this year. Meanwhile, if Broadway is to be a place where artistic risk is valued, there's a place for this." Adam Feldman&nbsp;for <a href="https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/west-side-story-broadway-review-revival-ivo-van-hove" target="_blank">Time Out New York</a>"In Belgian director Ivo van Hove's finger-snapping-free staging, there's a gigantic video wall behind a mostly spare stage, modern clothes and a ferocity not seen since the musical's 1957 premiere, when The Post's Richard Watts Jr. called it the story of "the ugliness and horror of a war to the death between the boys." With that in mind, van Hove's visceral take is spot-on for 2020. As long as kids are still being born into a "lousy" world, West Side Story&nbsp;shouldn't be a trip down memory lane — it should be raw and real." Johnny Oleksinski&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/20/west-side-story-broadway-review-radical-revival-is-a-triumph/" target="_blank">New York Post</a>"It says something about the supreme power of flesh-and-blood people portraying raw human feeling onstage, without the filter of another medium, that the most emotionally devastating and visually stunning moment in the radical new Broadway revival of&nbsp;West Side Story&nbsp;occurs when its extensive video elements are stripped away. That happens in the&nbsp;coup de théâtre&nbsp;at the musical's climax, as a torrential downpour fills the immense darkness of the stage while a shattered young woman cradles her dead lover's body. Like many big-swing experimental bids to reimagine a canonical work, director Ivo van Hove's vigorously youthful take on the 1957 classic comes with losses and gains, but the latter are what you'll remember." David Rooney&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/west-side-story-theater-1280016" target="_blank">Hollywood Reporter</a>"Whittled down to one hour and forty-five minutes, West Side Story&nbsp;- with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim,&nbsp;and choreography by Jerome Robbins — has grown exceedingly dark and mislaid some of its moving parts in the new Broadway revival from edgy Belgian director Ivo van Hove.&nbsp;(Can you bear to lose "I Feel Pretty"?) But the plot of this beloved musical remains intact:&nbsp;We are still witnessing the deadly ethnic-fueled violence of two rival street gangs destroy the Romeo-and-Juliet romance of those immortal young lovers, Maria and Tony." Marilyn Stasio&nbsp;for&nbsp;<a href="https://variety.com/2020/legit/reviews/west-side-story-review-broadway-ivo-van-hove-1203507979/" target="_blank">Variety</a>&nbsp;

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