'West Side’ revival at D.C.'s National Theatre

In August 1957, a musical made its world premiere on the stage of Washington’s National Theatre. The show traveled to Philadelphia and opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre about a month later.

The rest is history. And history is returning to Washington as a new production of “West Side Story” again makes its debut at the National.

Several decades in the making, this project is a tribute to the three men who created the musical theater take on the “Romeo and Juliet” story: the late composer Leonard Bernstein, the lyricist Stephen Sondheim and the writer Arthur Laurents.