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...Broadway is also attracting top stars and prestige playwrights. This month Vanessa Redgrave opens in Vita and Virginia and the Joseph Papp Public Theater premieres Sam Shepard's Simpatico. In December the Public has a new Hal Prince musical, The Petrified Prince. January brings a trio of one-acters by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. Neil Simon, a Broadway pillar for a third of a century, made news recently when he said that mainstem plays had become too expensive to produce. Now even he is off-Broadway bound...
Blacks are also increasingly playing the unaccustomed roles of director and producer. Three years after the death of Joe Papp, who established New York City's Public Theater, George C. Wolfe has become the artistic leader of one the nation's most influential stages. Kenny Leon, a former law student turned actor and director, runs Atlanta's Alliance Theater, the most prominent stage in the South, and Tazewell Thompson heads the Syracuse Stage, where he has produced new plays by both black and white dramatists. All believe their role is to transform theater in ways that help audiences understand America...
...Lopatka 8 (Papp...
...Drouin, P.C. 19 6 12 18 2 30 Scollan, Mark 21 5 11 16 2 11 Chartrand, Brad 28 4 12 16 1 44 Wilson, Steve 28 3 13 16 0 38 Hannah, Shaun 24 5 5 10 1 18 Lopatka, Geoff 28 6 3 9 0 48 Papp, Jamie 19 6 2 9 3 6 Dufresne, Dan 27 0 6 6 0 76 Bergin, Tony 25 2 3 5 1 18 Ettles, Blair 14 0 5 5 0 20 Shean, Tim 17 0 4 4 0 4 Weber, Jason 13 3 0 3 0 2 Doll, Andre...
...Well, I interviewed Joe Papp years and years ago and he was worried about it, he said, "You know, when I started working here, a person could graduate college and afford to come to New York and take a junky job till they could work in the theater." He was concerned that people wouldn't come because it was too expensive, that they would go off to Seattle or someplace else that was more conducive to a life in the arts. And I thought, that's true, even when I got out of Yale, I moved to New York...