Broadway’s New ‘West Side Story’ Overstimulates as its Tragedy Runs Cold: REVIEW

There’s a sustained quality of attention intrinsic to live theatre. Generally, it’s cultivated through focusing on actors in a shared space (and please, yes, by all means put down your phone). Belgian director Ivo van Hove has conceived his new production of West Side Story, opening at the Broadway Theatre tonight, for a generation he … Continue reading Broadway’s New ‘West Side Story’ Overstimulates as its Tragedy Runs Cold: REVIEW