A Place for Us: "West Side Story" and New York

by Julia L. Foulkes

From its Broadway debut to the Oscar-winning film to countless amateur productions, West Side Story is nothing less than an American touchstone--an updating of Shakespeare vividly realized in a rapidly changing postwar New York.

That vision of postwar New York is at the heart of Julia L. Foulkes's A Place for Us. A lifelong fan of the show, Foulkes became interested in its history when she made an unexpected discovery: scenes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022630180X
• ISBN13: 9780226301808
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"