Complete Casting Announced for The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess on Broadway

Complete casting has been announced for the Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. Directed by Diane Paulus, the production will run December 17 – June 24, with an official opening on January 12.

The show, which features revisions from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks and Obie Award-winning composer Diedre Murray, is set in Charleston’s fabled Catfish Row, where the beautiful Bess struggles to break free from her scandalous past, and the only one who can rescue her is the crippled but courageous Porgy.

In addition to the previously announced Audra McDonald as Bess, Norm Lewis as Porgy and David Alan Grier as Sporting Life, the company will feature Phillip Boykin as Crown, Nikki Renée Daniels as Clara, Joshua Henry as Jake, Christopher Innvar as Detective, Bryonha Marie Parham as Serena and NaTasha Yvette Williams as Mariah.

The ensemble will include Allison Blackwell, Roosevelt André Credit, Trevon Davis, Joseph Dellger, Wilkie Ferguson, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Heather Hill, David Hughey, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Alicia Hall Moran, Cedric Neal, Phumzile Sojola, Nathaniel Stampley, Julius Thomas III, J.D. Webster, and Lisa Nicole Wilkerson.

The creative team includes choreographer Ronald K. Brown, set designer Riccardo Hernandez, costume designer ESosa, lighting designer Christopher Akerlind, and sound by Acme Sound Partners.

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