Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Audra McDonald won. 2012 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Actor in a Musical : Norm Lewis was nominated but did not win. Outstanding Actress in a Musical : Audra ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Since the 1935 world premiere production of ...

What is the Story of Porgy and Bess? Set in the 1930s in an African-American Charleston neighborhood known as Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess centers on the tragic love story of the cripple beggar ...

Richard Wright’s favorite albums are about as good as you'd expect from the powerhouse keyboardist behind Pink Floyd.

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them ...

In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with ... her shelter is the crippled Porgy. Their relationship is ...

“One day you will hear Porgy and Bess as we both want it to be ... to a man whose achievements then obscured her worth, a musical variation on Dorothy Wordsworth, say – albeit one recognised ...

As screen entertainment, Porgy and Bess retains most of the virtues and ... The handling of the music by conductor Andre Previn, including a three-minute overture before the story opens, is ...