The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess—which is to say, the 2011 opera-into-musical re-engineering by the playwright of Top Dog/Underdog and others—may indeed be a bastardization of a towering American classic, like Stephen Sondheim said it is, but I wouldn't know. This Tony-winning gloss on the Gershwins' (and the less famous Heywards) groundbreaking 1935 opera about life [...]
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:56PM on December 27, 2013