West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”. The feuding families become two warring New York City gangs–the white Jets led by Riff and the Latino Sharks, led by Bernardo. Their hatred escalates to a point where neither can coexist with any form of understanding. But when Riff’s best friend (and former Jet) Tony and Bernardo’s younger sister Maria meet at a dance, no one can do anything to stop their love. Maria and Tony begin meeting in secret, planning to run away. Then the Sharks and Jets plan a rumble under the highway–whoever wins gains control of the streets. Maria sends Tony to stop it, hoping it can end the violence. It goes terribly wrong, and before the lovers know what’s happened, tragedy strikes and doesn’t stop until the climactic and heartbreaking ending.
Event Types: Event Cinema
Piccadilly – Silent Cinema with Live Music – POSTPONED
A special silent cinema screening with live music performance provided by The Lucky Dog Picture House. A young Chinese woman, Shosho, is a scullery maid in a fashionable London Piccadilly Circus nightclub. When owner, Valentine Wilmot, sees her dancing one day, he hires her to perform a Chinese dance and she is an instant success. Her rise in fame brings jealousy, fear and passion as she becomes the toast of London, which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.
Experience one of the pinnacles of British Silent Cinema! Piccadilly is a sumptuous show business drama seething with sexual and racial tension, starring the iconic Chinese-American movie star Anna May Wong
English National Opera: The Mikado – POSTPONED
Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum. Just one snag. She’s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the new Lord High Executioner. And Ko-Ko needs to find someone to execute – chop chop! Otherwise, it’s his own neck on the block.
Maybe Ko-Ko and Nanki-Poo can come to some arrangement… without anyone losing their head?
Globe On Screen: Twelfth Night – POSTPONED
Outrageous high comedy ensues as the pangs of unrequited love affect the unforgettable characters of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.
While the lovelorn Duke Orsino plots to win the heart of the mourning Olivia, an alliance of servants and hangers-on-scheme against the high-handedness of Olivia’s steward, the pompous Malvolio.
When Orsino engages the cross-dressed Viola, who has disguised herself as a young man under the name Cesario, to plead with Olivia on his behalf, a bittersweet and hilarious chain of events follows.