Joe Papp in Five Acts

April. 30,2012

Rating：

4.5

Genre：

Documentary

Keywords：

Woman Director

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Olympia Dukakis as Self

David Hare as Self

David Henry Hwang as Self

James Earl Jones as Self

Larry Kramer as Self

Meryl Streep as Self

Christopher Walken as Self

George C. Wolfe as Self

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Reviews

Gurlyndrobb

2012/04/30

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Lollivan

2012/05/01

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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filippaberry84

2012/05/02

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Erica Derrick

2012/05/03

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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