In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves ...

Music Theater Heritage, the professional theater in residence at Crown Center, has released first look photos from its production of The Gershwin's PORGY and BESS, the third production in MTH's 2024 ...

For some — including myself, much of the time — the greatest moment in all of music is the clarinet glissando at the opening of “Rhapsody in Blue.” But lately, I have been getting even more of a ...

It was 5° above zero when the 85 members of the Porgy and Bess company got to Leningrad, the first American theatrical troupe ever to visit Russia. Jammed on the station platform to greet them with ...

Now playing in the Grand Theater at Crown Center is Music Theater Heritage’s production of Gershwin’s “PORGY AND BESS.” This is an example of MTH going “all in” on a very challenging show and ...

“Ain’t I done told you?” said a minor actor rehearsing for Sam Goldwyn’s Porgy and Bess movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) ...