Newsday (Nassau Edition) from Hempstead, New York • 95

toward good writers from other countries We wB also do classics based on particular A structure fashioned after the Globa Theater of time win be built in The Fonmv where various companies sometimes working fat repertory will present plays Papp said feel this is an expansion of tin New York Shakespeare FeetivaL Rather it is a focusing inward making the best of our resources actors plays and In announcing the new Shakespeare Festival role yesterday Amyas Ames chairman of the board of Lincoln Center said are exdted and honored that Papp is with The tall reserved grayhaired Ames and the shorter long-haired Vudy Papp were sharply contrasting figures as titey stood before a battery of microphones They engaged fa gome good-humored banter over whether the Shakeepeare Festival or Lincoln Center would ultimately bear the responsibility for raising the $5000000 The question was not michard Clurman parks recreation and cultural affairs administrator for New York City expressed his and Mayor with new hrvoIvmenL He added however that the city was not anticipating making any special financial commitment to the Beaumont-Forum complex aft this time Ames said that the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center and its board now cease to exist though former members of that board can be expected to provide help in raising the neoessaxy funds Asked it this was a form of by the old board Ames said Papp added that there would be between Lincoln Center and the Public Theater He talked of the possibility of contemporary operas financed by the Metropolitan Opera being presented at the East Village complex He said his was not speaking of the housed at The Forum during its current first sear eon but searching for a permanent home Puffing on a cigar as he stood beneath a stern bust of Beethoven the 51-year-old East Village impresario began his remarks with customary nonconformity Joking about why he had accepted the invitation to make the New York Shakespeare Festival a constituent of Lincoln Center in the same way as the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic he said: aggrandizement To establish a cultural power base hoe in New York in order to take over other repertory companies in the country and establish liaisons with China and Russia And another reason: Ttis is closer to where I 98th Street end Broadway The principal reason at course is that a real a challenge that nobody yet has met satisfactorily Toward the end of its opening 1963-64 season the Repertory Theater lost its two chiefs Robert Whitehead a Broadway producer and Ella Kazan one of the American most celebrated directors They quit amid financial and artistic problems associated with criticism of the acting company and the quality of several productions Jules Irving and Herbert Blau came from San Francisco's Actors Workshop to replace them Problems persisted and Blau left after two seasons Last November after the board decided to cut off funds for The Forum Irving announced his resignation effective the end of this season Currently Menhant of is running at the Beaumont the third of four seasonal productions Streetcar Named opening April 26 is the old regimens last stop: JTL Hiimliy PtwCo tgr Tom MuiM Papp will bring his successful theatrical formula to the ailing Beaumont not raised Papp said it will be it was nice talking to The plain-speaking impresario who battled his way up from an Off-Off-Broadway nonentity about 20 years ago to become a major Broadway and Off-Broadway force today said after the press conference that around 1963 he proposed bringing his New York Shakespeare Festival to Lincoln Center -but was turned down This time Lincoln Center mum to him and dramatic entrance onto the Beaixnont stage coincides with the official exit of Lincoln repertory-theater concept which never worked anyhow Instead starting in October Papp plana to present the kind of theater he has done and will continue to do simultaneously at his Pdblic Theater in the East Village and at the summertime Shakespeare Festival in Central Park the Beaumont he said major thrust will be toward new works of American playwrights and second Leo Seligsohn dignified failure called the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center has been turned over to that irreverent suooeas named Joseph Papp At a press conference yesterday in the palatial purple-carpeted lobby of Lincoln Alice Tully HaH Fapp and his New York Shakespeare Festival were named heir apparent to 10 seasons of artistic and financial headaches at the 1140-seat Vivian Beaumont Theater and its 299-seat downstairs adjunct The Forum The actual creation of the new New York Shakespeare Festival at Lincoln Center must await the suooeas over the next six to eight weeks at raising $5000000 in pledges from private foundation and government sources' Fapp estimated the annual budget at $1500000 a year for the next five years with the additional $500000 coming from existing Repertory Theater donors If the money is tYfft a se i.