West Side Story

Tacoma Musical Playhouse
7116 Sixth Avenue Tacoma

Driven by an innovative Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim score featuring all-time favorites like "Something's Coming," "Maria," "America," "Somewhere," "Tonight" and "I Feel Pretty," West Side Story takes the most famous romantic drama of all time, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and sets it loose on the streets of 1950s New York. This Tacoma Musical Playhouse production finds the ill-fated courtship of star-crossed lovers Tony and Maria playing out against the fierce racial rivalry between street gangs the Sharks and the Jets, in a truly timeless story of passion and prejudice. The famed film adaptation won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and the latest Broadway revival was in 2009.