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 ...

Nikki Renée Daniels, a talented vet of eight Broadway musicals (including Aida, Anything Goes, Promises, Promises, Les Miserables and Nine), is back on the Rialto as luminous young mother Clara in ...

This Theater Loop Showcase video is soprano Adina Aaron from “Porgy and Bess” at Lyric Opera. In George and Ira Gershwin’s 1935 opera set in South Carolina, the title characters have led turbulent ...

“PORGY AND BESS” is the greatest American opera. You will know at least a couple of its songs, even if you’ve never seen it. “Summertime” began as an aria but has become a jazz standard. So has Bess’s ...

Among the handful of artists who have left a permanent mark on 20th-century American music, George Gershwin stands apart. Capable of writing successfully in multiple idioms, he insisted on striving ...

A concert performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic of “Porgy and Bess” began at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday night as the opera always does, with “Summertime.” Nicole Cabell sang the lullaby with ...

From the first chords of “Porgy and Bess,” you just know this will be a different sort of opera experience. The jaunty brass section pounds out its slightly syncopated phrases as a xylophone – and ...

Operatic aspirations are replaced with the accessibility, theatricality and showbiz savvy of a Broadway musical in Diane Paulus' bright, beautiful and tuner-centric re-envisioning of "Porgy and Bess." ...

2 REVIEW: In the constellation that is the Australian musical theatre scene, there is one BRIGHT STAR. 3 REVIEW: RENT Returns To Sydney with a Large Scale Production for the Joan Sutherland Theatre at ...

Gershwin purists, this “Porgy and Bess” is probably not for you, even though its official title is “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.” The cast album of the current Broadway production is a streamlined ...