Chita Rivera catapulted to fame playing Anita in the 1957 musical “West Side Story” on Broadway. But please don’t confuse the 90-year-old diva with the actress Rita Moreno, who played the ...

An admirer once said Chita Rivera had "the fastest feet on Broadway." At age 90, she's a legendary dancer and proved it in the big musicals of her day — Bye Bye Birdie, Can Can, Chicago ...

She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected] Broadway icon Chita Rivera, best known for her role as Anita in the original 1957 Broadway cast of ...

Broadway actress Chita Rivera waited 90 years to tell her story. And if it wasn’t for the pandemic, which made it impossible for her to perform, she may not have gotten to it. Dance steps became ...

Rivera was most known for starring in "West Side Story" and "Chicago." Chita Rivera, the Broadway legend and trailblazing Latina actress, has died. She was 91 years old. Lisa Mordente, Chita ...

NEW YORK — Chita Rivera, the dynamic dancer, singer and actress who garnered 10 Tony nominations, winning twice, in a long Broadway career that forged a path for Latina artists and shrugged off ...

Ariana DeBose, remembering the late West Side Story star, presented a Chita Rivera tribute at the Tony Awards. At the end of the homage, the awards show host would take the stage and recreate the ...

Chita Rivera, who died on Tuesday at 91 ... she always “hung back” when cast members went out after shows to drink and flirt and belt out show tunes. But while she was on tour with “Call ...

“When you work with somebody like that,” the composer John Kander said of developing characters with Chita Rivera, “there’s nothing you can’t write.”Credit...Philip Montgomery for The ...

Chita Rivera, the chorus dancer who became a bona fide Broadway star, wielded her body with divine grace. Her physical technique was magical even well into her 80s. But the spark that illuminated ...