SOMEWHERE : THE LIFE OF JEROME ROBBINS by Amanda Vaill Weidenfeld,

Amanda Vaill opens her absorbing biography of the choreographer Jerome Robbins with an all too familiar psychological diagnosis: he was, she writes, 'a man of contradictions', in search of 'a haven of love and acceptance' he never quite found. 'If in his professional, creative life "he was always right" ... in ...

Fifty years young and still staking a genuine claim to be the greatest Broadway musical of all time, West Side Story arrives in London for a UK tour at a time when there's been a rash of Romeo and Juliets like a bad outbreak of the measles. With music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book ...

Whether you’re seeing Gypsy for the first (or fourth or fifth) time, you’ll want to catch Arthur Laurents’ revival starring Patti LuPone at the St. James Theatre. For one thing, Gypsy is among the very best musicals ever written, and we assume that by now the 90-year-old Mr. Laurents—who created the masterly book in 1959, and is ...