2002Music2h 33m

Porgy and Bess

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.

10.0
Score

Information

StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

drug addictionmusicalsouth carolinabased on play or musicalpoverty rowcharleston1900s20th centuryromantic drama

Production

PBS
PBS
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts