When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a misdiagnosed brain tumor, his friend and colleague ...
As Houston performing arts ventures grow for the 2025-26 season, Houston Grand Opera surpasses them all with a thrilling 50th ...
As Porgy, the disabled beggar who falls in love with Bess in a Charleston slum, Sumuel has been practicing his limp along ...
Nearly 50 years ago, Houston Grand Opera staged a pioneering production of George Gershwin's 'Porgy and Bess' that traveled ...
Houston Life’s Melanie Camp takes us behind the curtain for an inside look at the artistry, music, and costumes bringing it ...
In the third or fourth phase of his illustrious career, Miles Davis recorded an album called Porgy and Bess. The title didn’t indicate that he was playing the music that George Gershwin had created ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. PORGY AND BESS is one of those shows that deserves a little explanation. It has ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Orchestra is kicking off the month of March with George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, set in the slums of 1930's Charleston, South Carolina. "Gershwin himself went ...
A.R.T. artistic director Diane Paulus, a Tony Award nominee for the 2008 revival of Hair, is staging the Broadway-bound production, which re-imagines the traditionally sung-through, four-hour opera, ...
Many people know “Porgy and Bess” as the grand George Gershwin opera which debuted on Broadway in 1935, but director Diane Paulus has since re-invented the popular tale of Southern black life as ...
Here's the question people always ask about Porgy and Bess: Back in 1933, when George Gershwin sat down at his piano, did he create a musical, an operetta, a quaint period piece, or a white-boy ...