Research Catalog

Title

Oral history interview with Kathryn Grody, 1987-06-04 [sound recording].

Author

Grody, Kathryn

Publication

1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Patinkin, Mandy
• Turan, Kenneth.

Description

2 sound cassettes : analog.

Summary

American actress/writer Kathryn Grody discusses her career at the Public Theater. She talks about her experience working with Joseph Papp, first as an actress and later as a playwright and performer in her autobiographical play "A mom's life" (1990) during the New York Shakespeare Festival. She speaks about her relationship with Papp and about his personality. She also reminisces about the conflict between Papp and Bernie Gersten that led to Papp firing Gersten from his job at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1978. After Mandy Patinkin joints the interview, they both criticize Papp for firing many of their co-workers who helped Papp to create the New York Shakespeare Festival and worked with him for many years. They also mention that Papp never gave them a second chance to work with him producing their plays and never re-hiring them for any other theatrical positions.

Alternative Title

• Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.
• Joseph Papp oral history interviews.

Subjects

• Grody, Kathryn > Interviews
• Actors > United States > Interviews
• Dramatists, American > Interviews
• Interviews (Sound recordings)
• Patinkin, Mandy > Interviews
• Public Theater (New York, N.Y.)
• Actresses > United States > Interviews
• Women dramatists, American > Interviews
• Oral histories
• Musical theater > Production and direction > United States > History > 20th century
• Women in the theater
• Grody, Kathryn > Friends and associates
• Grody, Kathryn > Mom's life

Genre/Form

• Oral histories.
• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• Interview by Kenneth Turan, originally recorded for the book "Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told" which was published in 2009.
• A track ID has been inserted every five minutes within this interview for reference purposes.
• Actor Mandy Patinkin [Grody's husband] joints the second part of the interview for last 23 min.

With (note)

• Part 1 of the interview on CD 2 with an Oral history interview with Gretchen Cryer (CD 1); part 2 of the interview on CD 2 with an Oral histrory with Robert Woodruff (pt. 2) and Anna Sokolow.
• Part 1 of the interview (side A) on original cassette with part 1 of an Oral history interview with Gretchen Cryer (side B).

Access (note)

• Access to original items restricted.

Event (note)

• Recorded [in New York?], June 4, 1987.

Additional Formats (note)

• Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) begins on *LDC 51648, CD 2, tracks 1-10; concludes on *LDC 51649, CD 2, tracks 5-9.

Contents

CD 1. Interview with Kathryn Grody (45:19) -- CD 2 (contd.) Interview with Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin [Grody's husband] (23:19).

Call Number

*LDC 51648, CD 2, tracks 1-10

OCLC

782920693

Author

Grody, Kathryn, interviewee.

Title

Oral history interview with Kathryn Grody, 1987-06-04 [sound recording].

Imprint

1987.

Event

Recorded [in New York?], June 4, 1987.

Access

Access to original items restricted.

Additional Formats

Service compact discs (2 sound discs : digital, mono. ; 4 3/4 in.) begins on *LDC 51648, CD 2, tracks 1-10; concludes on *LDC 51649, CD 2, tracks 5-9.

With:

Part 1 of the interview on CD 2 with an Oral history interview with Gretchen Cryer (CD 1); part 2 of the interview on CD 2 with an Oral histrory with Robert Woodruff (pt. 2) and Anna Sokolow.

Part 1 of the interview (side A) on original cassette with part 1 of an Oral history interview with Gretchen Cryer (side B).

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Added Author

Patinkin, Mandy, interviewee.

Turan, Kenneth. Interviewer

Papp, Gail Merrifield. Donor

Added Title

Free for all: Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest story ever told.

Joseph Papp oral history interviews.

Research Call Number

*LDC 51648, CD 2, tracks 1-10

*LDC 51649, CD 2, tracks 5-9

*LTC-A 684

*LTC-A 780