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A radically reworked West Side Story comes to Broadway: Review

by Leah Greenblatt

How do you solve a problem like a remake? Play it too faithfully and you're just doing karaoke, or community theater; stray too far and you risk losing the thread of the original text " or worse, insulting it. Much of Belgian-born director Ivo van Hove's career has sprung from bringing his particular sensibility to plays already long settled in the public imagination: foundational classics like The Crucible, Hedda Ga…

SOURCE: Entertainment Weekly at 8:00pm on February 20, 2020