- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 streaming file (53 min.): sound, color.
- Summary
- Restaurateur Joe Allen, owner of Manhattan eateries that cater to theater professionals and theatergoers alike, is interviewed by food critic Alex Witchel. He discusses his early life, his career, and the changes in the midtown theater district he has observed since opening his first restaurant in 1965. He reminisces about theater people he has known, such as Chita Rivera, as well as his famous collection of posters celebrating infamous Broadway flops.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Note
- Title from opening credits.
- This interview can be accessed via physical media (DVD) in the screening room of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive: call number NCOW 413.
- Access (note)
- Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Joe Allen's Restaurant, New York, N.Y., March 29, 2016.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- NCOW 413
- OCLC
- 1308956489
- Title
Interview with Joe Allen / conducted by Alex Witchel ; March 29, 2016 ; Joe Allen's Restaurant, New York, N.Y. ; [video prod. company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Production
New York: Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, [2016]
- Copyright Date
©2016
- Type of Content
spoken word
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
- Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at Joe Allen's Restaurant, New York, N.Y., March 29, 2016.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Allen, Joe, interviewee.
Witchel, Alex, interviewer.
Hoffman, Patrick.
Parker/Hodges Productions.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Other Form:
digital transfer of (videodisc): 1 videodisc ; 4 3/4 in. (OCoLC) 1023812425 Interview with Joe Allen. New York:2016
- Research Call Number
NCOW 413