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CBS news nightwatch.
- Title
- CBS news nightwatch. Interview with Joseph Papp [videorecording] / produced for WCBS-TV.
- Publication
- New York, 1986.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Moving image | By appointment only | NCOX 5134 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (DVD) (30 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Interview segment with theatrical producer and director Joseph Papp, aired WCBS-TV. Papp discusses his educational program in theater for New York City high school students; the economics of producing shows on Broadway; Broadway's current preference for musicals over dramatic plays; more on his program, operated in conjunction with the Schubert Organization, to expose high school students to Shakespearean plays; his goal of making the theater affordable to audiences; his early appreciation of Shakespeare; Shakespeare's appeal to the Spanish speaking and multicultural audiences for Papp's free plays in Central Park; government support of the theater; New York Shakespeare Festival productions currently being presented off-Broadway; his plan to start a group of not-for-profit Broadway theaters for the staging of plays; his views on the Tony Awards; the difficulty of making a living as a playwright on Broadway; and what he believes the theatergoer should get from the experience of seeing a play.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
- Series Statement
- Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
- Uniform Title
- Nightwatch (Television program)
- Subjects
- Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
- Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
- Papp, Joseph > Views on Broadway
- Federal aid to the theater > United States
- Theater > New York (State) > New York
- Government aid to the theater > United States
- Interviews
- Off-Broadway theater
- Papp, Joseph > Interviews
- Theater > Economic aspects
- Television
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Television.
- Note
- Taped off air.
- No credits on tape; title derived from label on cassette.
- This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
- Contains brief clips of the New York Shakespeare Festival production, As you like it.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewer: Charlie Rose.
- Event (note)
- Broadcast on WCBS-TV, Channel 2, May 29, 1986, 2:00 a.m.
- Call Number
- NCOX 5134
- OCLC
- NYPT04-F87
- Title
- CBS news nightwatch. Interview with Joseph Papp [videorecording] / produced for WCBS-TV.
- Imprint
- New York, 1986.
- Series
- Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection
- Performer
- Interviewer: Charlie Rose.
- Event
- Broadcast on WCBS-TV, Channel 2, May 29, 1986, 2:00 a.m.
- Added Author
- Papp, Joseph, interviewee.Rose, Charlie, interviewer.New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.WCBS-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.) producer.
- Added Title
- Nightwatch (Television program)
- Research Call Number
- NCOX 5134