Prince Music Theater to Present The West Side Story Project

Prince Music Theater’s Youth Arts Corps will bring The West Side Story Project back to the theater’s mainstage, March 10-15, with public performances March 13-15.

For the production, 40 members of the Prince Music Theater’s Youth Arts Corps — performers, musicians, stage crew, and front of house staff — ages 13-18 will weave songs from the Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim classic West Side Story with original poems and spoken word.

First performed during the 2008 Prince Summer Studio, the Youth Arts Corps explored the 1957 landmark musical West Side Story and music by Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, and others. They learned the music and history of West Side Story and as they worked, participants wrote their own personal monologues and poems about violence, gangs, and peer pressure.

For more information, call 215-569-9700 or visit princemusictheater.org.