Joseph Papp

Berlin Film Festival: Meryl Streep honored with Golden Bear

2012-02-14 16:39:27

<![CDATA[Berlin Film Festival: Meryl Streep honored with Golden Bear]]>

Theater review: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in Griffith Park

2011-07-03 16:33:02

<![CDATA[Theater review: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' in Griffith Park]]>

Theoni Aldredge dies at 78; costume designer

2011-01-22 00:00:00

Theoni V. Aldredge, a preeminent costume designer in theater and film who created wardrobes for more than 300 productions over nearly 50 years, died Friday at a Connecticut hospice, said her husband, actor Tom Aldredge. She was 78. Know for her...

Theater review: 'Hair' at the Pantages Theatre

2011-01-07 21:32:52

Nan Martin dies at 82; prolific actress

2010-03-05 00:00:00

Nan Martin, a stage, TV and film actress who played Ali MacGraw's snobbish mother in "Goodbye, Columbus" and was a mainstay on the Southern California theater scene for decades, has died. She was 82. Martin, who suffered from emphysema, died Thursday...

Southern California's big theaters need fresh, dramatic thinking

2010-03-28 00:00:00

Southern California is famous for being ahead of the national curve -- in styles, fads and unenviable crises. And right now, the region's largest institutional theaters are serving as a crystal ball for leadership concerns affecting nonprofit theaters...

Dixie Carter dies at 70; star of 'Designing Women'

2010-04-12 00:00:00

Dixie Carter, who gained television fame as Julia Sugarbaker on the long-running CBS sitcom "Designing Women," has died. She was 70. Carter died Saturday morning at a Houston hospital of complications from cancer, said Steve Rohr, publicist for Carter...

Martin Sheen comes full circle with 'The Subject Was Roses'

2010-02-14 00:00:00

A man many Americans still think of longingly as President Josiah Bartlet is waiting for a light to change at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Hughes Avenue in Culver City. He is on foot and in conversation with a companion, on his way to...

'Free for All' by Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp

2009-11-14 00:00:00

The apt title of this juicy oral history, based on more than 160 interviews, simultaneously expresses a principle that guided producer-provocateur Joe Papp and the theatrical ruckus that ensued. "Free for All" is how Papp presented Shakespeare in Central...

Thomas Babe: An actor's playwright worth remembering

2010-02-16 16:32:50

Kenneth Turan to discuss New York's Public Theater on KCRW

2010-03-30 16:32:59

'New': Rock out to post-apocalyptic neon fashionistas while supporting free local theater

2010-04-22 16:35:52

Actor Ron O'Neal in an undated file photo released by his family. O'Neal, whose role as cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest in the 1972 film Superfly epitomized the so-called "blaxploitation" film genre of that era, has died. He was 66. O'Neal died Wednesday evening, Jan.

2004-01-16 00:00:00