Read the lyrics to timeless Porgy and Bess songs, including Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', and more from the acclaimed ...

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 ...

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz just attended two productions of Porgy and Bess: an operatic performance at Tanglewood and a musical-theater version in Cambridge, Mass. He says it can work ...

Overall, Music Theater Heritage has achieved its overall design for PORGY AND BESS. I have not seen the-four hour version of PORGY AND BESS, but purists have branded this version PORGY Lite.

But Porgy and Bess is the legacy he wanted, and one which still sets the standard in musical theatre. 'Porgy and Bess', previewing now, opens at the Savoy Theatre, London WC2 on 9 November (08701 ...

That Bess’ music sounds, reasonably enough, like Bareilles’ — a brand of piano-based balladry that has been popular in our world for nigh on a couple of decades — does not make her seem ...

George Gershwin had an ambition to compose an American opera. "Porgy and Bess" opened to mixed reviews and a disappointingly short run -- huge for an opera, but meager for a Broadway musical.