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CapFilm: West Side Story (1961) ~ Free Hispanic Heritage Month Film Series

at Appell Center for the Performing Arts

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Downtown York's grandest room isn't one room — it's two. The Appell Center runs the 1,262-seat Strand and the more intimate 450-seat Capitol, a pair of restored 1920s movie palaces on North George Street that have been the city's big stage for a century (the Strand just hit its 100th birthday this season). One night it's a national touring act or a comedian, the next it's the York Symphony or a classic on the big screen through the CapFilm series. It's the kind of place with real history in the walls — it reopened in 1980 with Ella Fitzgerald on the bill and hasn't stopped booking since. Grab tickets, dress up a little if you feel like it, and remember that a proper night out doesn't always start at a bar. Sometimes the best seat in York has a curtain in front of it.

September 24, 2026

One-time

When

7:00 PM – 9:33 PM

Where

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and a Leonard Bernstein score that's never left the American songbook — West Side Story's 1961 film adaptation is as good as it gets for a free community screening, and the Appell Center's Hispanic Heritage Month Film Series brings it to the Capitol Theatre on Thursday, September 24 at 7:00 PM. Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, and Russ Tamblyn anchor Romeo and Juliet reimagined against 1950s New York gang violence, with choreography and music that still hold up as one of the genre's high-water marks. Delma Rivera-Lytle, a longtime advocate for education and equity in York County, opens the evening with remarks on the film's place in the series. It's free programming inside a theater with its own century of history on North George Street — the kind of night that makes a historic movie palace feel like it belongs to the whole community. NR (PG-equivalent), 2 hours 33 minutes.

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