West Side Story explores the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks. The Jets are made up of working-class white teenage boys from broken homes and the Sharks consist mainly of Puerto Ricans.

So dramatic are the changes that the romanticized “West Side Story” characterization of ... white-ethnic neighborhood-based gangs like the Jets no longer really exist. Ethnonational conflict ...

marking the end of the Jets versus the Sharks gang warfare and introducing the world to West Side Story and the original West Side Story cast. The 1961 film, an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway ...

Steven Spielberg directing "West Side Story" remake in Manhattan's Harlem Neighborhood. Ariana DeBose is seen as Character ...

Their vision for West Side Story is decidedly contemporary ... accented with fiercely rhythmic Latino angularity, while the Jets, a gang now mixing black with white, are looser, with more swagger ...

From the Jets to the Sharks ... and an original cast member from the 1961 movie, the West Side Story cast is full of stars. Here is where you might have seen them before, and what they’re ...

“West Side Story” will run at the M.P. Bush Fine Arts Auditorium from April 4-6. There will be evening shows at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and an encore matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Sunda ...

From Rachel Zegler to Ansel Elgort, meet the 2021 'West Side Story' cast compared to their 1961 counterparts West Side Story first graced the big screen in 1961. In 2021, Steven Spielberg became ...

Bobby Banas, who played Jets member Joyboy in 1961’s West Side Story, appeared in other film musicals and had a long career as a choreographer, died Monday. He was 90. His official Instagram ...

Gangs have changed in the decades since West Side Story first came out—they are deadlier ... The soul of the street gang hasn’t changed much since the days of the Jets and the Sharks—but the world ...

So dramatic are the changes that the romanticized "West Side Story" characterization of gangs ... white-ethnic neighborhood-based gangs like the Jets no longer really exist. Ethnonational conflict ...