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West Side Story: Spielberg's First Musical Has Moves, Energy and Heightened Storytelling

West Side Story: Spielberg's First Musical Has Moves, Energy and Heightened Storytelling

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekDecember 8, 2021West Side Story, Steven Spielberg, 1957 Broadway hit, Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Movie musicals return, Justin Peck, Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Ariana DeBose, Rita Moreno Comments

Tick, Tick...Boom!: Lin Manuel Miranda Honours the Late 'Rent' Author, Breathing Life into Earlier Work

Tick, Tick...Boom!: Lin Manuel Miranda Honours the Late 'Rent' Author, Breathing Life into Earlier Work

By Thom Ernst

ReviewJim SlotekNovember 12, 2021Movie musicals return, Tick, Tick…Boom!, Jonathan Larson, Rent, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp Comment