Experience The Musical Theatre Classic

Two rival gangs. One forbidden romance. Something's coming... and it's heading to the National Theatre in a major new revival for 2027! This new production of the great American romance will be co-directed by Marianne Elliott and Miranda Cromwell, reuniting the pair following their award-winning West End and Broadway revival of Death of a Salesman, whilst using Jerome Robbins' original choreography, reproduced and adapted by Julio Monge, who also worked as an artistic collaborator and consultant on Steven Spielberg's 2021 film adaptation.

Cast and further details to be announced.

About West Side Story

In 1957, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Jerome Robbins solidified their musical theatre legend status when the dazzling West Side Story leaped onto Broadway. Fusing mounting tensions of artfully danced street warfare and an arresting Romeo-and-Juliet-esque romance, the all-singing, all-dancing spectacular went on to become one of the greatest musicals ever to grace the Great White Way and the world over.

Called a 'sneaker ballet' thanks to the original sneaker-and-jeans-clad cast, a creative decision used to elicit the gritty realism of New York, West Side Story chronicles the warfare between two rival gangs - the Sharks (white Americans) and the Jets (Puerto Rican Americans). When two young associates of each gang meet and fall in love, they inflame the tensions to boiling point. Battling bloodshed and condemnation, the young lovers are determined to be together, although tragedy waits around every street corner.