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Steven Spielberg, Rita Moreno on making a more socially aware 'West Side Story' with Latinx cast
Director Steven Spielberg and cast members Rita Moreno, Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort and more talk new "West Side Story" musical.
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Here's why Steven Spielberg's 'West Side Story' reimagined a key character as transgender
The new film version of "West Side Story" firmly establishes that one of the classic musical's characters is transgender — a move that has led to the film's ban in several Middle Eastern countries.
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Broadway review: 'Angels in America' with Andrew Garfield, Nathan Lane
The National Theater production of Tony Kushner's phenomenal 1993 epic work doesn't feel like a historical artifact that won the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, an Olivier Award, an Emmy, and the National Medal of Arts for its author.
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Steven Spielberg to Tackle 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara' as Next Film
Steven Spielberg will tackle his long-gestating religious period drama The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara after he wraps Ready Player One, setting his Bridge of Spies co-star Mark Rylance to star in the Amblin Entertainment project. Tony Kushner, who worked on Spielberg’s Lincoln and Munich, wrote the script adapting the David Kertzer novel, which has been in development with the filmmaker since 2008. The true story centers on a 6-year-old Jewish boy who, in 1858, was seized by the police and rem