Transcript: Public Theater Brings Diversity to New York City

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: A year ago this month, George C. Wolfe became head of the New York Shakespeare Festival, the producing organization that is based at the Public Theater in Manhattan. Wolfe says before he got that job he was always George C. Wolfe, black director. Anything he did, writing and directing Jelly's Last Jam on Broadway, writing, directing, or producing for Joseph Papp at the Public, it was George C. Wolfe, black director. Then, Wolfe was asked to run the Public Theater, and he directed the much acclaimed Angels in America. Since then, he's been known as George C. Wolfe, period. NPR's Susan Stamberg visited the Public Theater to meet ...

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