Release Date

30 Apr, 2012

Runtime

01:24: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—is profiled in this documentary that neither sanctifies nor vilifies him. He brought us free Shakespeare in the Park, Hair and A Chorus Line, and nurtured many of America’s greatest playwrights, directors and actors. His complex personality and mercurial behavior are much in evidence and spoken of with frankness through interviews with some of America’s most celebrated artists, including Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Kevin Kline, and James Earl Jones.

Original Title

Joe Papp in Five Acts

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Actors

Olympia Dukakis

David Hare

David Henry Hwang

James Earl Jones

Larry Kramer

Joseph Papp

David Rabe

Meryl Streep

Christopher Walken

George C. Wolfe

Crew

Don Byron

Daniel Childers

Toshiaki Ozawa

Sam Pollard

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Julia Mintz

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Mary Recine

Karen Thorsen

Karen Thorsen

Deborah Peretz

Brad Fuller

Karen Thorsen

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