Porgy and Bess

03/20/2002

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2hrs 33min

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Music

STORY

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 the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Marquita Lister
  • Alvy Powell
  • Timothy Robert Blevins
  • Sabrina Elaine Carten
  • Dwayne Clark

    Director

  • Tazewell Thompson

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • PBS
  • Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English