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...There are public libraries," says Joseph Papp. "Why not public theaters?" One of the most creative producer-directors of the American stage, Papp has done his best to make good drama as accessible to New Yorkers as a good book...
This week Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival begins its twelfth three-month season in Central Park, where the top price in the 2,300-seat Delacorte Theater is-nothing. Next month Papp-trained Mobile Theaters will be taking free productions of Hamlet, with an all-black cast, and a children's musical based on The Pied Piper to New York's slums. In a partially refurbished 117-year-old building that once housed the Astor Library, Papp is completing a successful first season of contemporary plays at the Public Theater, where tickets are only $2.50. This...
...Menu Theater. The Papp who is papa of all this theatrical enterprise was born Joseph Papirofsky 47 years ago in the tough Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, where his father was a trunkmaker from Poland and his mother a seamstress from Lithuania. After high school and some 20 miscellaneous jobs, including short-order cook and sheet-metal worker, he served a four-year hitch in the Navy and used the G.I. bill to join the Actors Laboratory Theater in Hollywood. In 1954, back in Manhattan as stage manager for CBS-TV, Papp organized an unsalaried Shakespeare workshop in the basement Sunday...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office manager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...
...MEMORANDUM. Joseph Papp's latest production is a harrowing parable on the perils of conformity and cowardice. Czech Playwright Vaclav Havel has written a nonsensical narrative about an office man ager who delivers himself into the clutches of bureaucracy when an official language is introduced into his firm...