Topic: Jerome Robbins

Own This Town: This Weekend's Arts Picks 2hr

We're in the thick of the season, and there are plenty of things to do around town this weekend, but here are your best bets:. . Jennifer Holliday ...

The Concert, Lincoln Center, New York

Drawn from his Broadway haunts to the rarefied clime of New York City Ballet, Jerome Robbins sometimes succumbed to self-restraint, banning from ...

Best (and worst) Dance of 2011

THE BEST Sarah Michelson Devotion is an act. In an art form with few rewards, faith isn't just a loose term in dance, it's what draws you back to...

West Side Story

They're all killers . . . I wanted to do a much tougher West Side Story," said book writer Arthur Laurents of the 2009 Broadway revival he...

'Rita' entertains

0 . . . Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup: By Tony Taccone. Directed by David Galligan. Through Oct. 30. Berkeley Repertory's Roda Theatre, 2015...
The sense of humour that the Vienna Ballet displayed at the start of the season is here to stay, if Tuesday's "Homage to Jerome Robbins" is anything to go by."The Concert," a brief one-act choreography brilliantly merging comedy and ballet ...

West Side Story

But the chief glories remain Leonard Bernstein's score and Jerome Robbins's truculent-balletic choreography. Book writer and director Arthur Laurents pilots his infamous gang members, the Jets, out of lovable-ruffian territory in a revival of this 1957 classic. But the chief ...
Her achievements include a Tony Award, the Handel medallion, and the National Medal of Arts. In his lifetime, he won the Best Director Oscar for the film version of West Side Story, five Tony Awards, two Academy awards, the National Medal of ...
Bernstein and Sondheim's familiar tunes of West Side Story and Arthur Laurents' treatment of the classic plot of young love explode on the Orpheum stage with this touring Broadway production brought to town by Shorenstein Nederlander Hays. Kevin McCollum and company ...

Biography: Jerome Robbins

A veritable incarnation of the American dream in practice, Jerome Robbins was a talented and successful director of stage and film as well as a very gifted choreographer. Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins changed his name because he felt that it labeled him ...