JOE PAPP IN FIVE ACTS, a feature-length documentary film, tells the story of New York’s indomitable, street-wise champion of the arts who introduced interracial casting to the American stage and created free Shakespeare in the Park, "Hair", and "A Chorus Line". From 1954 until his death in 1991, Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. In his eyes, art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. "We have public libraries", he would argue, "why not public theaters?"
"This wonderful account of the birth of the Public Theater and the zeal and scrappy verve of her creator, Joe Papp, is a testament to the power of one man, with no money, to make a populist miracle." (Meryl Streep)
European premiere
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