Porgy and Bess

2002 • 2h33m Music

Popularity

2

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.

Details

Director

Tazewell Thompson

Screenplay

Dorothy Heyward

DuBose Heyward

Cast

Marquita Lister

Alvy Powell

Timothy Robert Blevins

Release date

3/20/2002

Status

Released

Origin country

US