Recent posts
Sacha Wares, director of the upcoming adaptation of Jung Chang's memoir Wild Swans, recently led a workshop in the UK to explore preliminary staging ideas.
The National Center for Race Amity, Students Organized Against Racism, Brandeis University and the A.R.T. teamed up for a special post-show discussion on race and the legacy of Porgy and Bess.
Yesterday's matinee was teeming with high schoolers from around Mass.; needless to say, it was an awesome show.
Recently, Ron K. Brown led an awesome community workshop at the Harvard Dance Center on the movement of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.
Jabari Asim, Editor-in-Chief of NAACP's The Crisis magazine and associate professor of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College, will moderate the post-show discussion following this Saturday's matinee performance of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.
Audio described perfomances of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess!
YWCA Boston and the A.R.T community participated in a discussion on race and Porgy and Bess on Sunday, 9/18.
On September 6th, the A.R.T. had its first American Sign Language (ASL) interpreted performance of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.
Continuing in an annual tradition of interstate collaboration, the A.R.T. Institute is proud to present the most recent product of its work with our neighbors to the South (as in...Providence).
This week, the A.R.T. welcomed its first Community Connections group to The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess! Thirty incredible young artists and their mentors from Artists for Humanity attended the first preview on Wednesday.
This is the story of how the creative team and principal cast members made the photo promoting The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess that appears in Vanity Fair's September issue.
The Boston Globe recently visited the American Repertory Theater to chat with the cast and creative team about the production.
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at the A.R.T. features fresh, new arrangements by OBIE award-winning and Pulitzer Prize nominee Diedre Murray (composer of Best of Both Worlds). Not to say that this is the first time the music of Porgy and Bess has been revisited; parts of the Gershwins’ iconic score have been covered, sampled, remixed, re-arranged, re-tooled and reworked countless times.
On March 23, 2011, the A.R.T. co-presented a panel discussion with the Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies on the process of ushering Porgy and Bess into a 21st-century cultural context.
When we talk about “the Gershwins” as the musical masterminds behind Porgy and Bess, we’re talking about brothers and lifelong collaborators Ira (1896-1983) and George (1898-1937).
The cast of Porgy and Bess is a veritable supergroup of musical theater stars.
As rehearsals continue at the A.R.T., Assistant Director of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Mia Walker, fills us in on the show’s progress...and some of the fun the cast and crew’s been having.
Assistant Director Mia Walker's second post from rehearsals of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess is brimming with exclusive tidbits on the upcoming production.
Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald, Bess in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, recently appeared on The View.
The director of this season's upcoming production of As You Like It helms a special workshop production of Hamlet in NYC next week-- featuring a cast comprised solely of A.R.T. Institute alumni!
