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...lively arts yield multiple blessings: fun to watch, fun to read about - and to write about. This week's issue offers an unusually full stage. Our cover subject is Woody Allen, the one-man comedy conglomerate. The Theater section takes a long look at Producer Joseph Papp, who practices a kind of populist theater. In Dance we review the ballet festival that celebrates Igor Stravinsky's music...
...Papp creates his own brand of surprises, which Associate Editor Gerald Clarke describes in his article. Papp has made subsidized theater an innovative force in artistic terms, in part by discovering a number of new playwrights who otherwise would have no forum for their plays. The man who first produced Hair back in 1967 and who now has seven plays running simultaneously in New York City, Clarke believes, is more than a talented promoter. "He is that rare creature, the good editor, who brings out what the writer wants to say." Papp also has much to say about himself...
...plays ye shall know me," says Joseph Papp. He has never written a play but he has given life to many, and as an innovative impresario he exerts enormous influence. Each of the works produced in the Downtown Manhattan beehive called the Public Theater bears the Papp stamp. "That's my job," he says. "Oh, yes, that's my job! I'm very good at saving plays, you know." Some would add, at saving the American stage. He himself observes with characteristic modesty: "I am the most important producer on Broadway, off-Broadway...
...possible, even bigger than his ego, and he is now talking about taking theater-his kind of rough, tough, he-man theater-to national audiences, even those that think that Manhattan is an island halfway between Sodom and Gomorrah. Beyond that, there is of course TV, and if Papp has his way, the ether will soon be saturated with drama in the Papp manner. A greasepaint Napoleon, he encompasses the theatrical world. As he opens New York City's 16th annual Shakespeare Festival in Central Park this week with a production of Hamlet starring Stacy Keach, congratulations-even self...
...year when Broadway has been suffering from an acute attack of the blahs, Papp's Public Theater has aroused and moved audiences with such plays as David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, Jason Miller's That Championship Season and Richard Wesley's The Black Terror. In a season when even the tune seems to have gone out of other musicals, Papp's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a high-spirited rock romp, has been a huge success. A kind of joke among his more profit-conscious colleagues a few years ago, Papp...