Rita Moreno, as she approaches her 80th birthday

The effervescent Rita will be 80 in December. She's still going strong with stage and television commitments. We've seen her go from the singing and dancing black-haired Anita in the film of  West Side Story, to the gritty realism of strong-willed grey-haired Sister Pete in tv's Oz.

A remarkable career, a remarkable woman, who tonight opens in an autobiographical show Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup for Berke­ley Rep­er­tory Theatre

Go for it girl!

Photo: Michael LaMon­ica. Image © Berke­ley Rep­er­tory Theatre. All rights reserved.

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Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.

His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.