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...Sackler show is composed of pieces from the Roy and Marilyn Papp collection, predominately paintings, but also fans and leaves from books. Regardless of the medium, the exhibit focuses on the transmission and re-interpretation of conventional styles, rather than on innovation...
HENRY IV. Both parts of Shakespeare's chronicle play in rotation at Joseph Papp's Public Theater off-Broadway, in a fiercely idiosyncratic staging by Papp's heiress apparent, director JoAnne Akalaitis, featuring a multiracial cast and minimalist music by Philip Glass...
More recently, Denzel Washington portrayed royal white villain Richard III in this part summer's Central Park Shakespeare series, sponsored by The New York Public Theatre. "We have been casting across racial lines since producer Joseph Papp started the Theatre in 1954" explains a Theatre spokesperson. "Morgan Freeman appeared recently in our production of The Taming of the Shrew...
...setting up a process to investigate charges of obscenity from "any responsible source." At first blink, the procedure sounded so cumbersome and so fraught with potential for misuse by accusers seeking publicity that many in the arts said NEA money might no longer be worth having. Impresario Joseph Papp of the Public Theater, which spurned one $50,000 NEA grant and expects to reject another for $325,000, denounced the new procedure as "a kind of cultural vice squad with people ratting on one another...
...that is just what will happen if Mackintosh keeps his word. But greed -- or even common sense -- will surely rescue this farce. "There's so much money involved," says producer Papp, "that I can hardly believe it won't be done here in some way." Already Equity and Mackintosh are making murmurs toward compromise. Miss Saigon is scheduled to open April 11. Before then, the warring sides will probably find a way to make nice, make a buck and save face...