In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina, Bess - a woman with a disreputable history - tries to break free from her brutish lover ...

Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

(Not to be confused with "Adventures of Gallant Bess", another film released two years later.) ...

That sentence is written in the same blunt spirit of the sobering, funny, provocative and totally engaging play that is Bess Wohl's "Liberation," which had its world premiere Thursday at ...

Bess Wohl has written 5 shows including Small Mouth Sounds (Playwright), Continuity (Playwright), Make Believe (Playwright), Grand Horizons (Playwright), Liberation (Playwright). What awards has ...

Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she is unhappily in love with admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of ...