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FREE FOR ALL: Joe Papp, The Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told
by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp New York: Doubleday (2009). Contains publisher's first printing number code sequence 10 through 1. Warmly inscribed, dated 11/7/09, and SIGNED by Kenneth Turan to the title page. Turan is the renowned Los Angeles Times and NPR film critic who was featured in the documentary FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES in which he discussed his public quarrel with director James Cameron, who requested the LA Times fire Turan, after a negative review of Cameron's film TITANIC. Enhanced with numerous photographs on striking black-and-white plates. An oral history of the Public Theater, the New York Shakespeare Festival and Shakespeare In The Park, that Joseph Papp founded and continued, in order to make theater and Shakespeare accessible to the public. Papp, a director and producer established Public Theater in a building in lower Manhattan creating a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals, from where he produced the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, CHORUS LINE. In this work Turan interviewed one-hundred-sixty famous actors, directors and playwrights, forty of which passed away before this book was published. An important cultural and theater history told through the testimonies of those who witnessed and participated in it. Some of the luminaries included are Meryl Streep, George C. Scott, Peter Rabe, Martin Sheen, James Earl Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Coleen Dewhurst, John Guare, Tommy Lee Jones, and so many more. This highly acclaimed book is rather scarce SIGNED by Turan. Upper spine edge slightly bumped else near fine in red cloth over burnished-burgundy boards with gilt embossed titles and decorative rules to the spine; in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight fading to the spine panel; original $39.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 593 pages; Cast of Characters; Afterword; Index. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |