Joe Papp in Five Acts

Joe Papp in Five Acts

🎞️ Movie 82 min US
โ˜… 7.4 /10 2012

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.

Cast

Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis
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Self
David Hare
David Hare
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Self
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David Henry Hwang
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Self
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
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Self
Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer
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David Rabe
Self
Self
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep
Self
Self
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken
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George C. Wolfe
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Self
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Don Byron
Composer
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Toshiaki Ozawa
Cinematographer
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis