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When writers' names are part of the title

February 2, 2012 6:51 PM By LINDA WINER linda.winer@newsday.com

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Photo credit: Ari Mintz | Audra McDonald and David Alan Grier in “The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess.”

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Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

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When Jeffrey Richards says, "I only do things with authors' names in the titles," he is being playful -- sort of.

As lead producer of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," Richards has been fielding questions -- mostly impolite -- about the estate-ordered identification slapped like a designer label on the title of the classic 1935 folk opera.

However one feels about Broadway's wildly controversial,...

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