"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As screen entertainment, Porgy and Bess retains most of the virtues and some of the libretto traits of the folk opera. As screen entertainment, Porgy and Bess retains most of the virtues and some ...