Porgy & Bess ***1/2
Back in New York: 'The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess' By Isa Goldberg/Chief Theater Critic Set in fictional Catfish Row, South Carolina in the late 1930s, the opera "Porgy and Bess," returns to Broadway for the first time in decades. Updated and streamlined, it's now a mere 2 ½ hours instead of 4. With major cuts to the music, recitative transformed to spoken dialogue, characters eliminated, and substantive change…