In 1943, two 25 year olds — Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein — were about to rock the ballet world. The dance they collaborated on was Fancy Free — about three sailors in a bar, trying to meet ...

Wendy Lesser, in her well-researched analysis of Jerome Robbins, writes in her introduction, "He may well have been the most hated man on Broadway. 'Mean as a snake,' said Helen Gallaher, a performer ...

Los Angeles Opera opens James Conlon's final season as music director with 'West Side Story' in Francesca Zambello's ...

Dancers gradually donned or discarded the ruffles, flounces, doublets and knee breeches that allude to a bygone era in which ...

There has not been a more entertaining evening in the Opera House for years than last week's Jerome Robbins show danced by the San Francisco Ballet. A mixed bill with a serious piece, a scandalous, ...

Curator Julia Foulkes culled the show from the New York Public Library’s Jerome Robbins Dance Division, which holds the ...

His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

This triple bill from William Forsythe, Jerome Robbins and Stephanie Lake is quite unlike anything the Australian Ballet has ...

NEW YORK — Sometime in the early 1940s, before he became the choreographer who shaped American movement, Jerome Robbins made a little home movie on a New York rooftop. He’s goofing around, trying out ...

2.When it came time to do chemistry reads for potential Tony, Maria, Anita, Riff, and Bernardo casting choices, six scenes were chosen to use. They were the bridal shop scene with Maria, Tony, and ...

Steven Spielberg called it the most daunting film of his career. Stephen Sondheim said his own lyrics made him cringe. When talking about West Side Story - among the most enduring stage and screen ...