Joe Papp in Five Acts 2012

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Documentary

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.

Homepage http://tjff.com/film-info.php?id=1056&sortby=&filterby=33,32,31,34,35
Release Date 2012-04-30
Runtime 1h 24m
Directors Karen Thorsen, Tracie Holder
Producers Daniel Childers, Tracie Holder, Julia Mintz, Mary Recine, Karen Thorsen
Writers Tracie Holder, Karen Thorsen