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- Saint stands in front of the new Arthur Laurents Theater at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, his artistic home of 23 years.
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- Saint reviewing a script with theatre legend and mentor Arthur Laurents.
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- Saint, Dowd, author Chris Bohjalian and actor Lou Diamond Phillips in a 2019 reading of Bohjalian’s “Midwives,” a George Street Playhouse production.
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- Saint’s Tokyo production of “West Side Story” featured a 360-degree stage and audience seat banks that rotate, allowing a completely new adaptation of the stage and screen classic.
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- Talking with “West Side Story” director Steven Spielberg and producers during the film’s rehearsal period at Lincoln Center.
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- Celebrating Saint’s birthday in 2019, with cupcakes courtesy of Spielberg, on location in an old, unused New York City subway station that was transformed into 1956 for the film.
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- Saint with Rachel Zegler and Ariana De Bose, who play Maria and Anita in the upcoming “West Side Story” film.
Saint stands in front of the new Arthur Laurents Theater at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, his artistic home of 23 years.
In spring 1975, theater legend Arthur Laurents received a Tony Award nomination for directing the revival of “Gypsy,” the 1959 classic often referred to as the quintessential Broadway musical. In that same time—and some 200 miles away—David Saint was graduating magna cum laude from Holy Cross, wondering what a career in New York might look like. Fortunately for the American theater, their paths would cross soon enough.