“What struck me very strongly is that it’s a well-made play,” says Chris Alexander, stage director for the upcoming Porgy and Bess for Seattle Opera (at McCaw Hall from July 30 to August 20; tickets $25-$241: 206-389-7676). Alexander saw the opera live for the first time in Dayton, Ohio, last year.

He has been working with theater all his adult life. “Coming from stage theater, it’s like a home game to direct Porgy. It’s remarkable how much of the original well-made play (by DuBose and Dorothy Heyward) is here,” he says. Continue reading Seattle Opera’s Porgy & Bess as a “Well-Made Play”