The 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story won 10 Academy Awards and helped cement the musical in the zeitgeist. Credit: Courtesy Photo / United Artists

The San Antonio Broadway Theatre is presenting a cultural-touchstone adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays, Romeo & Juliet, this Wednesday through Friday at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

Unfolding live in technicolor on the Upper West Side instead of Verona, Italy, this third-generation incarnation of one of the most popular musicals ever, West Side Story, features Jerome Robbins’ original choreography and bold vocals accompanying Leonard Bernstein’s award-winning score.

An iconic story that substitutes rival local gangs for lofty Montagues and Capulets, West Side Story is a tale of forbidden teenage love and avoidable tragedy incarnate.

$62.50-$72.50, 7 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, June 24-26, Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org.


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