Sixty years ago West Side Story swept the board at the Academy Awards, winning ten Oscars, a record number for a musical that still stands. But Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins masterpiece, nominated for seven this year, had to settle for just one on Sunday night. As expected, hot favourite Ariana DeBose took the […]
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Oscars Preview: Will West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose walk away a winner?
The red carpet rolls out for Hollywood’s big night on Sunday when all will be revealed at the 94th Oscars and the good news for lovers of musicals is that the fat lady is ready to sing for West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose. She’s the hottest of favourites in the Best Supporting Actress category for […]
West Side Story wins two BAFTAs including Ariana DeBose for Best Supporting Actress
West Side Story – Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the 1961 ten-Oscar winning musical – picked up two BAFTAs at London’s Royal Albert Hall with Ariana DeBose, as expected, taking the Best Supporting Actress gong for her thrillingly exuberant performance as Anita. But she lost out to No Time To Die actress Lashana Lynch for Rising […]
Musical theatre lovers are baffled by the BAFTA nominations
Musical theatre lovers are baffled and shocked by the BAFTA nominations just announced – West Side Story (tipped as a close third favourite to win the Oscar) has been ignored in the Best Picture category, while the movie’s director Steven Spielberg and star Rachel Zegler have missed out on Best Director and Best Actress nominations. […]
Exclusive! Rita Moreno is in line for an Oscars West Side Story double
Sixty years after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anita in West Side Story, 90-year-old Rita Moreno has the chance to pull off a unique Oscars double in Steven Spielberg’s electrifying remake of the 1961 movie classic. With nominations for the Oscars due to be announced on 8 February 2022, Moreno is quoted at […]
Film Review: West Side Story
West Side Story opens nationwide on 10 December 2021. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated – and, in some quarters, much dreaded – movie of West Side Story has finally reached cinemas. It’s the film I’ve been eagerly waiting for since about 1984: a full-blown musical by one of the […]
Stage version of TV show Smash in development
Superstar filmmaker Steven Spielberg will follow his eagerly-anticipated big screen re-working of West Side Story by making his debut as a lead producer on a Broadway musical with the stage version of hit TV show Smash. Spielberg is part of the high-powered team of producers (with Neil Meron and Robert Greenblatt) who developed the original […]
Lynn Cohen – A Tribute
The American actress LYNN COHEN had a long career encompassing theatre both on and off Broadway, in films by Woody Allen, Louis Malle, Tim Robbins, Morgan J. Freeman and Steven Spielberg among many others, and appearances on television in such iconic series as Sex and the City and Law and Order. Michael Darvell looks back […]
