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.

• PBS
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Marquita Lister
• Alvy Powell
• Timothy Robert Blevins
• Sabrina Elaine Carten
• Dwayne Clark
• David Aron Damane
• Darryl Reuben Hall
• Wynn Harmon