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...casual stroller who would like to think of the world's greatest playwright as the bawd of Avon will find plenty of license at Joseph Papp's production of Measure for Measure in Manhattan's Central Park. "Hence shall...
Married. Raul Julia, 36, star of Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Threepenny Opera; and Merel Poloway, 26, dancer in the long-running Broadway musical Pippin; he for the second time, she for the first; in a Hindu ceremony performed by Swami Muktananda Paramahansa; in the Catskill Mountains near South Fallsburg...
With the heraldic pennants flying at Central Park's Delacorte Theater, Joseph Papp's production does not stint on pageantry. While the evening is workmanlike, it never truly evokes Shakespeare's "Muse of fire." Rudd's Henry seems apprenticed to his role rather than the master of it. Streep is a potent charmer as Katherine. Since I there is no admission charge, this is an enticing opportunity to follow Cole Porter's advice and "brush up your Shakespeare...
...English experience shows, wanting, or even legislating, a national theater is no guarantee of getting one. When Manhattan's Lincoln Center complex was erected, many U.S. playgoers half-supposed that they were getting a kind of prefabricated national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the indefatigable Joseph Papp demonstrate that without the framework of tradition, such hope was unrealistic. What is needed is the meshing of disparate elements into an organic whole. The salient factors are the physical plant, the guiding personality, common aesthetic purpose and access to the public purse, together with the mature seasoning of tradition...
...marketplace; Village Voice Writer Nat Hentoff presides over a course in investigative reporting. Comedian Alan King, who got his start in New York clubs, has lectured on the origins of ethnic humor. Other New York personalities who have taught at the New School: Senator Jacob Javits, Broadway Producer Joseph Papp, former Mayor John Lindsay and Comedian Woody Allen...