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Popular Performance was awarded the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism and received an honorable mention for the John W. His book, Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. He is the author of The Latina/o Theater Commons 2013 National Convening, a narrative report.

Brian’s work, whether academic or artistic, examines the history of gender, sexuality, and race within and through US popular performance. Among her books and publications are Boriqua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture, The Latino Media Gap and Sovereign Arts: Contesting Colonialism in Native Nations and Latinx America.īrian Herrera is by turns a writer, teacher and scholar presently based in New Jersey, but forever rooted in New Mexico. So our guests are Frances Negrón-Muntaner, filmmaker, writer, scholar, and professor at Columbia University, where she’s also the founding curator of the Latino Arts and Activism Archive. We have three very distinguished professors, scholars, all of whom have written about West Side Story and we’re going to be talking about the revival of West Side Story, the new Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner affair, um, and about the tensions that have surfaced, I think, between Jewish communities and Latinx communities around this revival. Today, we’re gonna do something a little bit different than normal. I’m Arielle Angel, the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents and your host. Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated HaveĪrielle Angel: Hello, and welcome back to On the Nose, a Jewish Currents podcast. Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan “ The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate,” The New York Times “ West Side Story Can’t Be Saved” by Andrea González-Ramírez “ Let ‘West Side Story’ and Its Stereotypes Die” by Carina del Valle Schorske “ Why West Side Story Abandoned Its Queer Narrative” by Daniel Pollack-Pelznerĭisidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics by José Esteban Muñoz “ Compiling West Side Story’s Parahistories, 1949–2009” by Brian Eugenio Herrera “ Feeling Pretty: West Side Story and Puerto Rican Identity Discourses” by Frances Negrón-Muntaner Negrón-Muntaner, Herrera, and writer and scholar Daniel Pollack-PelznerĪbout the parallel resonances of West Side Story in Jewish and Latinx communities, and the tensions that emerge over questions of power and control.

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Of four gay Jews-Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents, and Latinx people bring to the work: West Side Story was the work Parallel also emerges in the different relationships that Jews and Histories”: as “masterpiece musical and racializing performance.” That Herrera has observed, West Side Story has two “parallel What was going on? As the theater historian BrianĮ. Negrón-Muntaner, who has been at the forefront of this conversation forĭecades, found herself accused of antisemitism for daring to criticize This time, however, filmmaker, writer, and scholar Frances Site of “Puerto Rican” representation, written and directed by white In response, Puerto RicanĬritics have revived a long-running discussion about the musical’sĮnduring shadow, which some argue has harmed the community as a primary

Stereotypical depictions of Puerto Ricans. Sought to bring the musical into the 21st century by updating its flat, I'm truly sorry.Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner’s recent remake of West Side Story Manuel recently responded to the criticism on social media by writing in part, 'In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. 'In the Heights,' a musical about a vibrant and diverse Latinx community in New York City, was released in theaters earlier this month. Moreno went on to add, 'I'm simply saying, can't you just wait a while and leave it alone? There's a lot of people who are puertorriqueño, who are also from Guatemala, who are dark and who are also fair. Her new documentary is called, 'Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It.' Lin-Manuel has done that, really single-handedly, and I'm thrilled to pieces, and I'm proud that he produced my documentary.' I mean, I would love to say I did, but I couldn't. 'This is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to America. 'It's like you can never do right it seems,' Moreno said.

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The actress appeared on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' Tuesday night and spoke about the controversy surrounding Miranda's new movie 'In the Heights,' in which he has been criticized for featuring dark-skinned Afro-Latinos in background and dance scenes but not in main roles. Rita Moreno is standing by her good friend Lin-Manuel Miranda.