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King Lear

Title: King Lear [videorecording] / New York Shakespeare Festival ; produced by Joseph Papp ; directed by Edwin Sherin ; produced for television by Virginia Kassel ; film by Gene Searchinger ; executive producer for Theater in America, Jac Venza ; [originally produced for WNET-TV, Theater in America]
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Broadway Theatre Archive, [2000]

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Description

2 videocassettes (180 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Live telecast of the 1974 New York Shakespeare Festival production of Shakespeare's King Lear, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The program, originally produced for WNET's Theater in America, is introduced by Hal Holbrook. The performance is introduced by its producer Joseph Papp.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Series Statement

Theater in America

Uniform Title

Theater in America (Television program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Drama.
Television.

Note

Credits on tape.

Credits (note)

Production designer, Santo Loquasto ; costumes, Theoni V. Aldredge ; original music, Charles Gross ; lighting, Martin Aronstein ; production supervisor, David Eidenberg ; production manager, Jason Steven Cohen ; stage manager, Elizabeth Holloway ; associate producer, Bernard Gersten ; production assistant, Janis Wain Klein ; production managers, Roy DeNunzio, Mark Goldberg ; executive producer [for] Theater in America, Jac Venza.

Performer (note)

James Earl Jones (as Lear), Raul Julia, George Addison, Tom Aldredge, Rene Auberjonis, Rosalind Cash, Lee Chamberlin, Anthony Chisholm, Frederick Coffin, George Dzundza, Frankie Faison, J. W. Harper, William Hart, Ellen Holly, Redvers Jeanmarie, Robert Lanchester, Jose Machado, Simpson Markson, Kevin Maung, Gregory Mosher, Charles Pegues, Lou Quinones, John Salat, Franklyn Seales, Paul Sorvino, Robert Stattel, Jean-Pierre Stewart, John R. Tobinski, Douglass Watson, James West III.

Event (note)

Originally broadcast WNET-TV, New York, N.Y. on Jan. 29, 1974. Remastered for Broadway Theatre Archive.

Call Number

NCOX 1078

OCLC

43675000
NYPG06-F649

Title

King Lear [videorecording] / New York Shakespeare Festival ; produced by Joseph Papp ; directed by Edwin Sherin ; produced for television by Virginia Kassel ; film by Gene Searchinger ; executive producer for Theater in America, Jac Venza ; [originally produced for WNET-TV, Theater in America]

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Broadway Theatre Archive, [2000]

Series

Theater in America

Credits

Production designer, Santo Loquasto ; costumes, Theoni V. Aldredge ; original music, Charles Gross ; lighting, Martin Aronstein ; production supervisor, David Eidenberg ; production manager, Jason Steven Cohen ; stage manager, Elizabeth Holloway ; associate producer, Bernard Gersten ; production assistant, Janis Wain Klein ; production managers, Roy DeNunzio, Mark Goldberg ; executive producer [for] Theater in America, Jac Venza.

Cast

James Earl Jones (as Lear), Raul Julia, George Addison, Tom Aldredge, Rene Auberjonis, Rosalind Cash, Lee Chamberlin, Anthony Chisholm, Frederick Coffin, George Dzundza, Frankie Faison, J. W. Harper, William Hart, Ellen Holly, Redvers Jeanmarie, Robert Lanchester, Jose Machado, Simpson Markson, Kevin Maung, Gregory Mosher, Charles Pegues, Lou Quinones, John Salat, Franklyn Seales, Paul Sorvino, Robert Stattel, Jean-Pierre Stewart, John R. Tobinski, Douglass Watson, James West III.

Event

Originally broadcast WNET-TV, New York, N.Y. on Jan. 29, 1974. Remastered for Broadway Theatre Archive.

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Added Author

Papp, Joseph, producer.

Papp, Joseph, host.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Lear.

Holbrook, Hal, host.

Sherin, Edwin, director.

Kassel, Virginia, producer.

Gross, Charles, 1934- composer.

Searchinger, Gene, director.

Loquasto, Santo, set designer.

Aldredge, Theoni V., costume designer.

Aronstein, Martin, 1936-2002, lighting designer.

Eidenberg, David, production personnel.

Cohen, Jason Steven, production personnel.

Holloway, Elizabeth, stage manager.

Gersten, Bernard, producer.

Klein, Janis Wain, production personnel.

DeNunzio, Roy, production personnel.

Goldberg, Mark, production personnel.

Venza, Jac, producer.

Addison, George, actor.

Aldredge, Tom, actor.

Auberjonois, René, 1940-2019, actor.

Cash, Rosalind, actor.

Chamberlin, Lee, actor.

Chisholm, Anthony, actor.

Coffin, Frederick, 1943-2003, actor.

Dzundza, George, actor.

Faison, Frankie, actor.

Harper, J. W, actor.

Hart, William, actor.

Holly, Ellen, actor.

Redvers, Jeanmarie, actor.

Jones, James Earl, actor.

Julia, Raul, actor.

Lanchester, Robert, actor.

Machado, Jose, actor.

Markson, Simpson, actor.

Maung, Kevin, actor.

Mosher, Gregory, actor.

Pegues, Charles, actor.

Quinones, Lou, actor.

Salat, John, actor.

Seales, Franklyn, 1952-1990, actor.

Sorvino, Paul, actor.

Stattel, Robert, actor.

Stewart, Jean-Pierre, 1946- actor.

Tobinski, John R, actor.

Watson, Douglass, 1921-1989, actor.

West, James, III, actor.

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

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, production company.

Added Title

Theater in America (Television program)

Research Call Number

NCOX 1078

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