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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Every Told

Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Every Told

Turan, Kenneth
Papp, Joseph

Paperback

Entertainment & Performing Arts21st Century United States HistoryTheater History

ISBN10: 0767931696
ISBN13: 9780767931694
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Nov 2 2010
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Free for All is an irresistible behind-the-scenes look at one of America's most beloved and important cultural institutions.

Under the inspired leadership of founder Joseph Papp, the Public Theater and the New York Shakespeare Festival brought revolutionary performances to the public for decades. This compulsively readable history of those years--much of it told in Papp's own words--is fascinating, ranging from a dramatic early showdown with Robert Moses over keeping Shakespeare in the Park free to the launching of such landmark productions as Hair and A Chorus Line. To bring the story to life, film critic Kenneth Turan interviewed some 160 luminaries--including George C. Scott, Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Kevin Kline, James Earl Jones, David Rabe, Jerry Stiller, Tommy Lee Jones, and Wallace Shawn--and masterfully weaves their voices into a dizzyingly rich tale of creativity, conflict, and achievement.

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