Film at Lincoln Center celebrates theatrical composer Jeanine Tesori, Lincoln Center Visionary Artist for the 2025–26 season, with a special screening of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. Tesori produced the musical numbers for the film, adapting them from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway score. The event will include a screening of the film, followed by an in-depth discussion with Jeanine Tesori at the Francesca Beale Theater about her experience composing and producing music for the screen, aimed at a 21st-century audience.

West Side Story with Jeanine Tesori

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.