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Great Performances: Merry Wives
Experience Shakespeare’s comedic masterpiece set in South Harlem telling the story of the trickster Falstaff and the wily wives who outwit him in a celebration of Black joy, laughter and vitality.
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Support for American Masters is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, AARP, Rosalind P. Walter, Judith & Burton Resnick, The Cheryl & Philip Milstein family, Vital Projects Fund, Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, Philip & Janice Levin Foundation, Ellen & James S. Marcus, The André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation, The Ambrose Monell Foundation,The Leslie and Roslyn Goldstein Foundation and public television viewers.
Major funding for American Masters: Joe Papp in Five Acts is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation and LusEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Additional funding provided by National Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York State Council for the Arts, The Better Angels Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Estate of Roland Karlen, The Henry and Marilyn Taub Foundation, Humanities New York, Ettinger Foundation, Inc., Vital Projects Fund.
Major funding for American Masters – Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road is provided by National Endowment for the Arts.
Series funding for Great Performances was provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Jody and John Arnhold, the Abra Prentice Foundation LLC, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, the Seton Melvin Charitable Trust, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, the Jack Lawrence Charitable Trust and Ellen and James S. Marcus. Additional funding for Great Performances: Merry Wives was made possible by the Estate of Roland Karlen.