Chita Rivera’s Life and Career Are Honored at the Tonys

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Chita Rivera’s Life and Career Are Honored at the Tonys

Chita Rivera, who dazzled Broadway audiences for nearly seven decades, ***** in January at the age of 91. She “was a Broadway star as long as anyone — and maybe longer,” our chief theater critic, Jesse Green, wrote in an appraisal. Rivera, whose father was born in Puerto Rico, was best known for starring as Anita in “West Side Story” and Velma Kelly in “Chicago,” but had a long list of credits to her name. (She detailed her life in career in “Chita: A Memoir,” written with Patrick Pacheco, in 2023.)

The New York Times has extensively covered Rivera’s life and career. Here is a look at some of our recent work remembering her.

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