Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012, English. Directed by Karen Thorsen & Tracie Holder.
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.
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- 1h 24m
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- 30 April 2012
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- United States of America
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- Tracie Holder, Karen Thorsen
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Joe Papp in Five Acts (2012) was directed by Karen Thorsen and Tracie Holder and stars Joseph Papp, James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline.