PORGY AND BESS And The Top 10 Everything of 2011 (TIME)
Stephen Sondheim launched a theatrical tempest by complaining in advance about this "reworking" of the revered but rarely staged Gershwin-Heyward opera, which opened at Boston's American Repertory Theater prior to a Broadway run scheduled for January 2012. Actually, it's a triumph. Director Diane Paulus and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks have tinkered with the book, though not terribly, and tailored the s…