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Mondo Latino Nueva York.

Title: Mondo Latino Nueva York. [Latin Americans in New York theater] [videorecording] / produced for Univisión [Television Network].
Publication: New York, 1987.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (25 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Program about Latin Americans in New York theater. Includes clips of the New York Shakespeare Festival's Belasco Project with extensive footage of its production, Romeo and Juliet. Actors Bertila Damas and Rene Rivera are interviewed.

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

Alternative Title

Mondo Latino Nueva York. 1) Broadway II. 2) Footage of Shakespeare play

Subject

Genre/Form

Television.

Note

This video separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.

Access (note)

Preservation pending. Appointment and tape transfer required prior to viewing.

Event (note)

First broadcast Univisión, Channel 41, New York, N.Y, June 7 to 13, 1987.

Biography (note)

The Belasco Project, also known as Shakespeare on Broadway, was started by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival in cooperation with the New York City Board of Education and the Shubert Theater. The Festival initially put up $1.5 million for the project, which was later funded with a $500,000 grant from the Long Island newspaper Newsday. During the mid-1980s, plays such as Macbeth, As you like it and Romeo and Juliet were performed at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway for hundreds of thousands of junior and senior high school students, teachers and parents by a multi-racial company of actors, directed by Estelle Parsons. The program also incorporated discussion sessions between actors and students, held in classrooms and in the theater.

Language (note)

In Spanish.

Call Number

NCOX 5411

OCLC

NYPG06-F319

Title

Mondo Latino Nueva York. [Latin Americans in New York theater] [videorecording] / produced for Univisión [Television Network].

Imprint

New York, 1987.

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 prior to viewing.

Event

First broadcast Univisión, Channel 41, New York, N.Y, June 7 to 13, 1987.

Biography

The Belasco Project, also known as Shakespeare on Broadway, was started by Joseph Papp and the New York Shakespeare Festival in cooperation with the New York City Board of Education and the Shubert Theater. The Festival initially put up $1.5 million for the project, which was later funded with a $500,000 grant from the Long Island newspaper Newsday. During the mid-1980s, plays such as Macbeth, As you like it and Romeo and Juliet were performed at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway for hundreds of thousands of junior and senior high school students, teachers and parents by a multi-racial company of actors, directed by Estelle Parsons. The program also incorporated discussion sessions between actors and students, held in classrooms and in the theater.

Language

In Spanish.

Added Author

Damas, Bertila, performer, interviewee.

Rivera, Rene, performer, interviewee.

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, producer.

Univisión (Television network), producer.

Research Call Number

NCOX 5411

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