Joe Papp in Five Acts
Joe Papp in Five Acts

Joe Papp in Five Acts

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2012
1h 24m
4.5(2 votes)
Documentary

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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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10 members
Acting

Olympia Dukakis

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Olympia Dukakis
Writing

David Hare

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David Hare
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David Henry Hwang

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David Henry Hwang
Acting

James Earl Jones

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James Earl Jones
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Larry Kramer

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Larry Kramer
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Joseph Papp

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David Rabe

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Meryl Streep

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Meryl Streep
Acting

Christopher Walken

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Christopher Walken
Directing

George C. Wolfe

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George C. Wolfe

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