Porgy and Bess
Contributors: Soudeikine, Serge; Steinert, Alexander, 1900-1982; Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983; Gershwin, George, 1898-1937; Heyward, DuBose, 1885-1940; Heyward, Dorothy, 1890-1961; Theatre Guild; National Theatre Corporation (Washington, D.C.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1936
Language: eng
Description: National Theatre, direction, Rapley Theatre Corporation, S.E. Cochran, manager, The Theatre Guild, Inc. presents "Porgy and Bess," an American folk opera (founded on the play "Porgy" by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward), music by George Gershwin, libretto by DuBose Heyward, lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin, production directed by Rouben Mamoulian, settings designed by Sergei Soudeikine, orchestra conducted by Alexander Steinert.
Notes: National Theatre, week beginning Monday, March 16, 1936.

"The Playgoer. A magazine for the Theatre, March 16, 1936"--Cover.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: Ford L. Buck, Abbie Mitchell, John W. Bubbles, Edward Matthews, Georgette Harvey, Olive Ball, Helen Dowdy, Ruby Elzy, Henry Davis, Jack Carr, Gus Simons, Todd Duncan, Warren Coleman, Anne Brown, Alexander Campbell, Harold Woolf, Charles Holden, John Garth, J. Rosamond Johnson, George Lessey, Ray Yeates, George Carleton.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).