Articles about The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
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Like many contemporary plays and films, Porgy and Bess was originally a novel before it was adapted into a straight play, and then, into an opera, and THEN, into a musical.
In a word. Go! PORGY AND BESS, the 1935 iconic and revered four hour folk opera by George and Ira Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward has undergone a “nip and tuck’ proc…
Gritty and passionate and powerful with classic songs that are gorgeously sung charged with the varied emotions of love, loss and revenge. The casting is perfection.
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess on Broadway is a "Crap Game:" When I read Stephen Sondheim's critique of "Porgy and Bess," I wondered what all the fuss was about until I witnessed last night's…
Celebrities attend the opening night of The Gershwin’s PORGY AND BESS on Broadway, January 12th, 2012.
Highlights From "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" on Broadway, Part 2
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Broadway gets a new look at Catfish Row, with fresh dramatic persp…
Highlights From "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" on Broadway, Part 1
http://www.playbill.com/multimedia/video Broadway gets a new look at Catfish Row, with fresh dramatic persp…
I've seen many versions of Porgy and Bess, from the 1959 Sidney Poitier-Dorothy Dandridge film to the 1970s' full operatic production by the Houston Grand Opera, from the 1980s' Metropolitan…
Diane Paulus and her collaborators have created a fantastically, even giddily entertaining Porgy and Bess that has enough merits to make all the controversy about ill-conceived tampering mel…
Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis Perform “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” from Broadway’s “Porgy and Bess”.
Producers of the Broadway revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, starring Norm Lewis and Audra McDonald, have announced the launch of a student rush ticket policy beginning Jan. 18.
Review of the Saturday, January 14 evening performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City, NY. An American Repertory Theatre production. Starring Audra McDonald,…
Suzan-Lori Parks, who wrote a reworked book for “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” now on Broadway, talks about some of the changes in the show and in the number “I Got…
"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was streamlined to make the original opera more accessible and realistic, but we're left with something slighter.
Meet the first-nighters at the Broadway opening of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.
It seems the insistent grumbling is for naught. Diane Paulus's revised Porgy and Bess, by most accounts, delivered a more than worthy interpretation and celebration of the opera, first produ…
Have critics got plenty of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess"?
Composer Stephen Sondheim will probably be appeased when he sees The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, the reconceived revival of the classic opera by George and Ira Gershwin and, oh yes, lib…
The Gershwins’ PORGY AND BESS opened this Thursday, January 12, 2012, at The Richard Rodgers Theatre. Here’s a first preview of some of the songs in the landmark new Broadway rev…
Audra McDonald brings thunder to "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," a stripped-down version of the original opera, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
David Rooney Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and David Alan Grier head a superlative ensemble in this streamlined reinterpretation for Broadway of the 1935 Gershwin folk opera.read more
"... revulsion is not just a sometime thing."
Broadway gets a new look at Catfish Row, with fresh dramatic
perspective and a cast boasting Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald and David Alan Grier, in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Directe…
Broadway gets a new look at Catfish Row, with fresh dramatic perspective and a cast boasting Norm Lewis, Audra McDonald and David Alan Grier, in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. Directed by Di…
The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS now comes to Broadway in a stunning and stirring new staging, featuring such legendary songs as "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So," and "I Got Plenty of No…
