Research Catalog

Title

New York Shakespeare Festival : related television coverage, June 16, 1985 to June 24, 1988 [videorecording]

Publication

New York, 1985-1988.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Boesky, Ivan F
• Kramer, Larry
• Myerson, Bess
• Cohenour, Patti, 1952-
• Rial, José Antonio, 1911-2009
• Binkley, John
• Wilson, Arthur
• McGovern, Maureen
• Smith, Liz, 1923-2017
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
• WNBC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.
• WNYC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.) producer.
• Terebi Tōkyō, Kabushiki Kaisha
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

Description

• 1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
• 11 videocassettes (VHS) (415 min.) : sd., col. ;
• 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (35 min.) : sd., col. ;

Summary

Compilation of television and other coverage related to the New York Shakespeare Festival. Fourteen segments aired or dated June 16, 1985 to June 24, 1988.

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

Subject

• Kramer, Larry
• Myerson, Bess
• Cohenour, Patti, 1952-
• Piñero, Miguel
• Piñero, Miguel > Friends and associates
• Rial, José Antonio, 1911-2009
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. Shakespeare Marathon
• Boesky, Ivan F
• McGovern, Maureen
• Dramatists > Interviews
• Actresses > Interviews
• Theater > New York (State) > New York
• Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York > 1981-1990
• AIDS (Disease) and the arts > New York (State) > New York
• Poets, Puerto Rican
• Hispanic Americans in the performing arts

Genre/Form

• Television.
• Interviews.

Note

• These videos separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
• Dubbed compilation of segments mostly taped off air. Segments are compiled on thirteen videocassettes.
• Broadcast, credit and content information gathered from New York Shakespeare Festival inventory list.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Videocassettes contain extraneous material.
• Videocassette one (ca. 30 min.): Adam Smith's money world, aired WNET-TV, Channel 13, 6/16/85. With guest Ivan Boesky, re: Arbitrage. Boesky was a New York Shakespeare Festival board member.
• Videocassette two (ca. 60 min.): Do not enter: the visa war against ideas. PBS Documentary, aired WNET-TV, Channel 13, 1/6/87. Includes New York Shakespeare Festival playwright Dario Fo.
• Videocassette three (ca. 60 min.): Phil Donahue show, aired WNBC-TV, Channel 4, 4/1/87. New York Shakespeare Festival playwright Larry Kramer re: AIDS.
• Videocassette four (ca. 16 min.): West 57th Street, Miss America under siege, aired WCBS-TV, Channel 2, 11/7/87. Segment on New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Commissioner and former Miss America Bess Myerson who has recently been indicted on charges of bribery. Features interview with Myerson. Segment begins at 17 min. Produced by Michael Rubin.
• Videocassette five (ca. 23 min.): Hello v.i.p., aired TV Tokyo, 2/16/88. Feature on New York Shakespeare Festival performer Patti Cohenour. In Japanese; includes brief clip of Cohenour.
• Videocassette six (ca. 31 min.): Eye on dance, aired cable television Channel 23, 3/3/88. ARC Videodance presentation. Includes clip of A midsummer night's dream from the New York Shakespeare Festival's Shakespeare Marathon #1. Interview with Garth Fagan and Carl Lumbly.
• Videocassette seven (ca. 28 min.): Broadway magazine with David Anthony, show no. 113, aired WNYC-TV, Channel 31, 4/4/88. Lengthy review of the New York Shakespeare Festival production Wenceslas Square with clips from show.
• Videodisc eight (103 min.): Memorial service for Puerto Rican born poet, playwright and actor Miguel Piñero (1946-1988) held at the Public Theater on June 6, 1988. Pinero's play Short eyes, about prison society inside New York City's Tombs, was staged at the Public Theater in 1974. Rough Cut. Video: Jorge A. González.
• Videocassette nine (ca. 31 min.): Nueva York ahora, aired Channel 41, 7/6/88. Interview with Jose Antonio Rial, author of The death of Garcia Lorca. The play was produced by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public Theater in 1988.
• Videocassette ten (ca. 14 min.): Binkley sampler for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 3/6/87. Sample reel with five segments featuring the work of television producer John Binkley. Includes excerpts from a The Perkins Family, a soap opera in which kids play all of the roles from children to adults.
• Videocassette eleven (ca. 3 min.): NBC nightly news, aired WNBC-TV, Channel 4, 9/20/87. Three-minute arts feature with shot of A chorus line marquee.
• Videocassette twelve (ca. 60 min.): Maureen McGovern on stage at Wolf Trap, 5/20/88. McGovern sings At the ballet from the musical A chorus line and mentions the New York Shakespeare Festival production The pirates of Penzance.
• Videocassette thirteen (ca. 30 min.): Yesterday meets today, aired Manhattan Cable, Channel D, 2/9/88 and Channel C, 2/11/88. Presented by Creative Programs Designs for Paragon Cable of Manhattan. Hostess Lea Scott interviews Arthur Wilson. Wilson ran the New York Shakespeare Festival's Playwriting in the School's Program.
• Videocassette fourteen (ca. 5 min.): Live at five, aired WNBC-TV, Channel 4, 11/17/87. "Liz Smith mentions the inception of the Shakespeare Marathon--all of Shakespeare's plays to be presented by the New York Shakespeare Festival over six years."--New York Shakespeare Festival inventory.

Access (note)

• Preservation pending. Appointment and tape transfer required before viewing.

Language (note)

• Segment five in Japanese; segment nine in Spanish.

Call Number

NCOX 5063

OCLC

NYPG05-F11211

Title

New York Shakespeare Festival : related television coverage, June 16, 1985 to June 24, 1988 [videorecording]

Imprint

New York, 1985-1988.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Access

Preservation pending. Appointment and tape transfer required before viewing.

Language

Segment five in Japanese; segment nine in Spanish.

Added Author

Boesky, Ivan F, interviewee.

Kramer, Larry, interviewee.

Myerson, Bess, interviewee.

Cohenour, Patti, 1952- interviewee.

Rial, José Antonio, 1911-2009, interviewee.

Binkley, John, producer.

Wilson, Arthur, interviewee.

McGovern, Maureen, performer.

Smith, Liz, 1923-2017, reporter.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

WNBC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.), producer.

WNYC-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.) producer.

Terebi Tōkyō, Kabushiki Kaisha

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater.

Research Call Number

NCOX 5063