Word: papp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best things in life may be free, but so are some of the worst. Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival is offering Hamlet for nothing at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, and it is worth nothing...
...blameworthy director is Michael Rudman, but the greater responsibility lies with Papp. A public subsidy is a public trust. So is a private grant. These ought to be regarded as incentives to dramatic excellence, not as an opportunity to fob off shoddy aesthetic goods on the gullible...
...Scheider, 39, got an Oscar nomination for playing Gene Hackman's buddy in The French Connection. The role in Jaws gave him a shot at shaking the sidekick image that had attached itself since then. A solid, working New York actor who did time with Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival and the Lincoln Center Repertory, Scheider keeps his roots firmly in the East. He has a farm in upstate New York and a part interest in Joe Allen's, an actors' hangout near Broadway...
...beautifully modulated performance, Hilary Jean Beane makes an acting debut of striking promise. Dropping her real middle name is the only improvement one can think of. Adeyami Lythcott plays Monty with swaggering ease and power, and the entire supporting cast is exemplary. This is an auspicious beginning for Joseph Papp's plan to bring fresh plays into Lincoln Center's Newhouse Theater, some by black and Hispanic playwrights. · T.E. Kalem
...been considered the best of it, with other works like Medal of Honor Rag being placed by critics "in the tradition of Sticks and Bones." The play is about the psychic warping of a blind Vietnam veteran and the havoc he creates back home with his family. In Joseph Papp's original Public Theater version a few years ago the play had a hypnotically entrancing effect, but there really isn't that much analysis to it. It's a play about Vietnam as a pretext and not an event. That's okay, I guess--just don't expect that...