Word: papp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English experience shows, wanting, or even legislating, a national theater is no guarantee of getting one. When Manhattan's Lincoln Center complex was erected, many U.S. playgoers half-supposed that they were getting a kind of prefabricated national theater. The recent Napoleonic efforts of the indefatigable Joseph Papp demonstrate that without the framework of tradition, such hope was unrealistic. What is needed is the meshing of disparate elements into an organic whole. The salient factors are the physical plant, the guiding personality, common aesthetic purpose and access to the public purse, together with the mature seasoning of tradition...
...beginning to seem as if Mrs. Warren's Profession is as old as Mrs. Warren's profession. Still, after 70 years, the market for both remains strong. Producer Joseph Papp's new mounting at Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater is an opportunity to see again Shaw's comedy about a fallen woman who is as prosperous and self-justified as any other successful capitalist...
Married. Joseph Papp, 54, theatrical impresario and producer of Hair, That Championship Season, Much Ado About Nothing and A Chorus Line; and Gail Merrifield, 40, great-great-granddaughter of Actor-Assassin John Wilkes Booth and director of play development at Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Manhattan...
...with a hauteur that resembled his own. Unrepentant, he set up shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when the Rockefeller Foundation offered to be his angel. New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp volunteered free space at the Estelle Newman Theater in downtown Manhattan. Eighteen months ago, the new Eliot Feld Company opened for business...
...board of faculty advisors from the Fine Arts, English, Music and Visual and Environmental Studies departments has chosen an advisory committee that included Leonard Bernstein. Dave Brubeck, Joseph Papp. Mstislav Rostropovich and Beverly Sills, to choose the visiting artists, and in many cases to appear themselves...