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 ...

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 ...

Synetic Theater's The Immigrant, Ada Limón, 90 years of Porgy and Bess, The Summer I Ate the Rich, and bacteria as art.