This image of the Neil Simon Theatre (formally the Alvin Theatre) is viewable in Times Square on the Membit app. The Warner Strand Theatre was a few blocks from the Warners’ Theatre where the Jazz ...

If there is one opera lost or won by its chorus and characters, it’s George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. In this perfect storm of a story, it’s all about the tight-knit fishing community that cradles, ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On this day in 1935, Porgy and Bess, ...

The Houston Grand Opera opened its 2025-26 Friday season with George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" in a performance that showcased an array of star-quality soloists, a superb chorus, and a gritty ...

A jazz interpretation of the American opera “Porgy and Bess” debuts this weekend at the New Vic Theater in Santa Barbara, starring actors Elijah Rock and Karole Foreman. Composed by George Gershwin, ...

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 ...

Gershwin's 'Porgy & Bess' via The Met's Nightly Opera Stream Mon, Feb. 1, 7:30PM via The Metropolitan Opera Opera may not be the first type of music you think of during Black History Month, but the ...

George Gershwin's time in the Carolinas launched the musician on such a spree of creativity that it led to what some critics call one of his finest works. Getty Images On June 16, 1934, George ...

Porgy is about a disabled beggar who falls in love with the troubled Bess— she dates abusive men, she’s addicted to drugs, and she eventually follows her dealer all the way up to New York City, ...

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 ...