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: 2012
Rating: 4.5
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 84 min
Country: United States of America
Production: The Papp Project
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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