Today in Theatre History: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on January 12, 2012. In 2010, the Gershwin family, along with the estate of DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, approved a new musical theatre adaptation developed by the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus, the production premiered at A.R.T. in August 2011, nearly 76 years after the original opera debuted at Boston’s Colonial The