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Film · 2002
Porgy and Bess
2h 33mDirected by Tazewell Thompson
- Music
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.
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Cast
- Marquita ListerBess
- Alvy PowellPorgy
- Timothy Robert BlevinsCrown
- Sabrina Elaine CartenMaria
- Dwayne ClarkSportin' Life
David Aron DamaneJake- Darryl Reuben HallCompany
- Wynn HarmonThe Detective
- Charles MandracchiaPoliceman
- Angela Renée SimpsonSerena
- Martin SolaNelson
Details
- Director
- Tazewell Thompson
- Writer
- Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward
- Release
- March 20, 2002
- Runtime
- 2h 33m
- Language
- English
- Studio
- PBS, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
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