The production of the George Gershwin work is propelled by a strong cast, including Michael Sumuel and Angel Blue.

When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a misdiagnosed brain tumor, his friend and colleague ...

As Houston performing arts ventures grow for the 2025-26 season, Houston Grand Opera surpasses them all with a thrilling 50th ...

In the third or fourth phase of his illustrious career, Miles Davis recorded an album called Porgy and Bess. The title didn’t indicate that he was playing the music that George Gershwin had created ...

The Gershwin and Heyward estates enlisted Tony-winning Hair and Pippin director Diane Paulus to help bring new context to Porgy and Bess for contemporary audiences, whittling the American folk opera ...

Awash in the hard light of a summer afternoon in South Carolina, the opening scene of Washington National Opera’s “Porgy and Bess” bears the muted sepia glow of an old photograph — one that springs to ...

Tony nominee Lewis (Sondheim on Sondheim, Side Show, Les Miserables) stars as the crippled beggar Porgy opposite four-time Tony Award winner McDonald (Ragtime, Marie Christine, Master Class) as Bess.

There was nothing secondary about the second cast of Washington National Opera's "Porgy and Bess," which took the stage Saturday night at the Kennedy Center Opera House. The four singers, all making ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. PORGY AND BESS is one of those shows that deserves a little explanation. It has ...

Many people know “Porgy and Bess” as the grand George Gershwin opera which debuted on Broadway in 1935, but director Diane Paulus has since re-invented the popular tale of Southern black life as ...

Semi-staged shouldn’t necessarily mean semi-skimmed, as the Philharmonia demonstrated earlier this month with Wozzeck, but unfortunately this acclaimed Cape Town Opera production of Porgy and Bess ...

George Gershwin called Porgy and Bess an opera. Yet he chose to debut the work at the Alvin Theatre in New York in October of 1935 because he wanted people who would never get to an opera house to be ...