Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

Show more George Gershwin's 1935 opera is a compendium of standards: Summertime, It Ain't Necessarily So, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin' and I Loves You Porgy among them. This production, the first ...

George Gershwin's classic opera, Porgy and Bess, has finally come to Boston (it opens today at the Astor), heralding, it claims, "a new era in motion pictures." This may be something of an ...

The great opera singer Sir Willard White recalls his experiences on the first televised production of George Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess. Show more The great opera singer Sir Willard ...

Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

What is the Story of Porgy and Bess? Set in the 1930s in an African-American Charleston neighborhood known as Catfish Row, Porgy and Bess centers on the tragic love story of the cripple beggar ...