Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012)
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.
Release Date: 2012-04-30
Runtime: 84 minutes
Director: Tracie Holder
Top Cast
- Olympia Dukakis as Self
- David Hare as Self
- David Henry Hwang as Self
- James Earl Jones as Self
- Larry Kramer as Self
- Joseph Papp as Self
- David Rabe as Self
- Meryl Streep as Self
- Christopher Walken as Self
- George C. Wolfe as Self
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