Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Wilkie Ferguson, III, currently performing in the ten-time Tony Award nominated ...

Breezy tunes, breakneck pace and plenty of Jazz Age swagger make Gershwin’s Concerto a firm audience favorite, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet lends his individual style and interpretive flair to this ...

George Gershwin was insecure. He never showed it at high-society parties, where he could always be found perched at the nearest piano like a king on his throne. (He played incessantly. Once, when ...

Soprano Angel Blue as Bess and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as Porgy in HGO's productionof Porgy and Bess. Credit: Michael Bishop When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a ...

Music Theater Heritage has announced the cast and creative team for The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. One of the first regional presentations of the acclaimed Broadway adaptation, the MTH production is ...

As the curtain fell after the fourth round of applause for the American Repertory Theater’s highly anticipated and highly controversial revival of “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess,” which opened on ...

Between 1956 and 1964, at least 16 jazz interpretations of Porgy & Bess were recorded and released. Why the frenzy? Part of the reason was the opera's global popularity by 1955. In 1952, Robert Breen ...

The only way I can do justice to Porgy and Bess is to let Leontyne Price introduce it herself. The opera is not just gorgeous, lush, and quintessential to the American arts; it is a hotbed of debate ...