By: Jennifer McAndrew, Vice Consul at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel
Two rival gangs circle in anticipation of a fight as the lights come up on the stage of Anis Theater in Jaffa, Israel. The setting is gritty, 1950s New York. The music is quintessential Leonard Bernstein. The production is the Broadway classic “West Side Story” (1957), and it is at once both familiar and strange…
