Porgy and Bess Tickets

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy, in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received a National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the field—from President Barack Obama. In addition to her Tony-winning performances in Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End—she has appeared on Broadway in The Secret Garden; Marie Christine (Tony nomination); Henry IV; 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination); Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony nomination). A Juilliard-trained soprano, her opera credits include La voix humaine and Send at Houston Grand Opera, and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, where the resulting recording earned her two Grammy Awards. On television, she was seen by millions as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live! and played Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC’s Private Practice. She won an Emmy Award for her role as host of PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center and has received nominations for Wit, A Raisin in the Sun and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Having first appeared as Liz Lawrence on CBS’s The Good Wife, she stars in The Good Fight on Paramount+ as well as in Spectrum’s pandemic-themed drama, The Bite. On film, she has appeared in Seven Servants, The Object of My Affection, Cradle Will Rock, It Runs in the Family, The Best Thief in the World, She Got Problems, Rampart, Ricki and the Flash, Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, the movie-musical Hello Again, and MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. Her upcoming film projects comprise Higher Ground’s Rustin and FilmNation’s Down Low. McDonald has issued five solo albums on the Nonesuch label as well as Sing Happy with the New York Philharmonic on Decca Gold. She also maintains a major career as a concert artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world and with leading international orchestras. A founding member of Black Theatre United, board member of Covenant House International, and prominent advocate for LGBTQAI+ rights, her favorite roles are those performed offstage, as an activist, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother.

Norm Lewis can currently be seen starring in the SAG, Critics Choice, and NAACP Image Award-nominated Netflix film Da 5 Bloods by Spike Lee, and in the groundbreaking FX series, Pose. He was previously seen in the NBC television special, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper. He recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island and as Sweeney Todd in the off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance. In 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera’s first African American Phantom on Broadway. He has been seen on PBS in the Live From Lincoln Center productions of Showboat with Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, and New Year’s Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves, as well as American Voices with Renée Fleming and the PBS Special First You Dream – The Music of Kander & Ebb. He can be seen recurring in the VH1 series, Daytime Divas, also alongside Vanessa Williams. His additional television credits include Mrs. America, Better Things, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bull, Chicago Med, Gotham, The Blacklist and Blue Bloods, as well as in his recurring role as Senator Edison Davis on the hit drama Scandal. Mr. Lewis is a proud founding member of Black Theatre United, an organization which stands together to help protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in theatre and communities across the country. He received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. Other Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who’s Tommy. In London’s West End, he has appeared as Javert in Les Misérables and Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert, which aired on PBS. Off-Broadway, Mr. Lewis has performed in Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award), Shakespeare in the Park’s The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League nomination), Captains Courageous, and A New Brain. His regional credits include Porgy in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (A.R.T.), Ragtime, Dreamgirls (with Jennifer Holliday), First You Dream, Sweeney Todd and The Fantasticks. His additional film credits include Magnum Opus, Winter’s Tale, Sex and the City 2, Confidences, and Preaching to the Choir. Norm's albums The Norm Lewis Christmas Album & This is The Life can be found on Amazon.com as well as cdbaby.com.

Countless theater, television, film and comedic endeavors have pushed David Alan Grier’s career to remarkable heights. His ability to excel across all mediums and contexts is a testament to his inherent sense of comic timing and creative drive. The three-time Tony and Grammy Award nominee is trained in Shakespeare, receiving an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. Grier has received many accolades and awards throughout his career, not the least of which was his inclusion on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time. Although Grier’s acting career is rooted in live theater, he perhaps is best known for his television work. He starred in all three seasons of the Image Award-nominated comedy series The Carmichael Show. He also starred as the iconic Cowardly Lion in the Emmy Award-winning 2015 live television production of The Wiz Live!, earning him two Image Awards and two Critics’ Choice Award nominations. Grier’s television work is highlighted predominately by his turn as a principal cast member on the Emmy Award-winning In Living Color from 1990-1994, during which he created and portrayed some of the show’s most memorable characters. He starred in DAG from 2000-2001 and Life with Bonnie in 2003, which earned him Image Award and Golden Satellite Award nominations. In 2008, Grier created, wrote and starred in Comedy Central’s Chocolate News. He also starred in 2013 network comedy series Bad Teacher. Additionally, Grier hosts the cable game show Snap Decision, and can be seen recurring in the second season of streaming comedy A Series of Unfortunate Events. Grier starred in the 2013 feature Peeples, opposite Kerry Washington and Craig Robinson, and produced by Tyler Perry; he appeared in the Wayans Brothers’ 2009 spoof, Dance Flick; and he was seen in the 1995 fantasy adventure Jumanji. He made his film debut in Robert Altman’s 1983 film, Streamers, for which he won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. Grier began his professional career on Broadway as Jackie Robinson in The First, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award in 1981. He then joined the cast of Dreamgirls, before going on to star opposite Denzel Washington in A Soldier’s Play, for which both actors reprised their roles in the film adaptation in 1984. From 2009-2010, Grier starred in David Mamet’s acclaimed play, Race, opposite James Spader and Kerry Washington, for which he received his second Tony Award nomination. He received his third Tony nomination in 2012, for his performance in The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess. He received his first Grammy Award nomination in 2013, when the cast recording of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess was nominated for Best Musical Theater Album. Grier recently wrapped a nationwide comedy tour, during which he was joined by “In Living Color” co-star Tommy Davidson. He also portrayed Daddy Warbucks in a performance of Annie at the Hollywood Bowl. His recent films include Arizona, a dark comedy in which he stars opposite Danny McBride, Kaitlin Olson and Rosemarie DeWitt and Sprinter, about a Jamaican runner, in which he portrays the coach; and Native Son, the adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Richard Wright. He lives in Los Angeles with his daughter, Lulu.

Joshua Henry is a Grammy-nominated performer and recording artist best known for his Tony-nominated leading roles in Carousel, The Scottsboro Boys and Violet, as well as for his show-stopping performance as Aaron Burr in the cultural phenomenon Hamilton (Chicago/San Francisco/Los Angeles). Joshua’s debut album Grow is available worldwide on all streaming platforms. He is a BMG recording artist and his original symphony show Get Up, Stand Up premieres this fall with The Philly Pops orchestra. On screen, he starred as Roger Bart in the Academy Award-nominated film tick, tick… BOOM! directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He also starred as Jerlamarel opposite Jason Momoa in two seasons of Apple TV+’s show See. Other Broadway shows include In the Heights, Shuffle Along, American Idiot, Porgy and Bess, Bring It On: The Musical. Off-Broadway: In the Heights, The Wrong Man.

Phillip Boykin is a 2019 Grammy Award Nominee for the Tony Award Winning CD Once on This Island. He's a Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award Nominee for his work as Crown in The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. He received the 2012 Theatre World Award. Phillip is a native of Greenville, SC who now resides in NJ. Other performances include the Broadway revivals, On the Town and Sunday in the Park with George. National Tours of Showboat, several other Regional Theaters and performances including, Sondheim on Sondheim with the LA Philharmonic and Boston Pops, the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance with The NY City Center, Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Opera Porgy and Bess, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel and Smokey Joes Café to name a few. Phillip performed as Booker T. Washington in the Anniversary Concert of Ragtime at Lincoln Center. He also made his Carnegie Hall debut in Broadway Classics. Film: Freedom starring Cuba Gooding Jr.; Top Five starring Chris Rock; Caiaphas in Easter Mysteries. He was featured as the cover story in Classical Singer Magazine. He’s a graduate of the University of Hartford’s Hartt School of Music in CT, he also studied Jazz and Vocal Performance at SC State University, Howard University and the NC School of the Arts. Phillip has toured throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Russia, Poland and North America. Mr. Boykin is the Founder, Director and Manager of "The New York Gospel Brothers."

Nikki Renée Daniels was most recently seen as Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton in Chicago. Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi); The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Clara); Les Miserables (Fantine); Anything Goes; Promises, Promises; Aida; Nine; Little Shop of Horrors and Lestat. Daniels made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Rose Lennox in The Secret Garden at David Geffen Hall. On television she has appeared as a featured player on Chappelle's Show, Madam Secretary and The Sound of Music: Live. She has performed as a soloist with numerous symphony orchestras across the country, in Canada, and at Carnegie Hall.

Christopher Innvar has been seen on Broadway in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Snow Geese, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Victor/Victoria, Les Misérables, The Threepenny Opera, 110 in the Shade, The People In The Picture. Off-Broadway credits include Floyd Collins (Playwright’s Horizons), King Lear (Delacorte Theatre), Signature Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, Transport Group Theatre Company, Red Bull Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theater, Classic Stage Company. Directing credits include The Whipping Man with Clarke Peters and The Other Place with Marg Helgenberger at Barrington Stage Company. Plays: Turtles (Applause), Phantom Limb (YouthPLAYS). Film: The Post. Television: The Sinner.

Bryonha Marie Parham made her Broadway debut in the revival of Ragtime. She returns to Broadway as the pious Serena in Porgy and Bess, a role she created at Boston’s American Repertory Theater. As Serena, Parham sings the torch song “My Man’s Gone Now.” Her other theatre credits include Ragtime at the Kennedy Center, Ain’t Misbehavin’, A Streetcar Named Desire, Kiss Me Kate, Chicago, Once on This Island and Seussical.

Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Zelma), Chicken and Biscuits (Brianna), Waitress (Becky), Chicago (Mama Morton), A Night with Janis Joplin (Aretha, Joplinaire), The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Mariah), The Color Purple (Sofia). Selected TV/Film Credits: Harlem (Rebecca), FBI (Mrs. Adamu), New Amsterdam (Esther), The Good Fight. You can catch her in the historical thriller Alice (Ruth), the Disney+ movie Better Nate Than Never (Principal) and Fall 2022 on Netflix’s Partner Track. Follow Insta @Natashayvettewillliams. Proud Black Theatre United and Actor’s Equity Member.

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