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...York City, Central Park: Joseph Papp's excellent Shakespeare Festival with A Midsummer Night's Dream...
...larger type. The Stratford company has often before hurt itself with guests, the most notable case being the deplorable Miss Hepburn, apparently because they believe that good Shakespeare, well-acted, cannot attract audiences in this country without a name-star. (This is a demonstrably false proposition--Joseph Papp's New York productions refute it every summer...
...does not stay to see it resolved. And so, one complaint about the Phoenix Theatre productions of the second and third parts of the tetralogy is external to the productions themselves--they are not preceded by Richard II and, short of a trip to Central Park for Joseph Papp's production, one cannot see Henry V after Part II. In these circumstances, it is all the more remarkable that Stuart Vaughan has achieved balanced and memorable productions of the great chronicle plays...
Green Thumb. In Detroit, police found longtime Drug Addict J. Papp standing on the grass in the center strip of the Willow Run Expressway holding a shovel, some fertilizer, and a cigarette package full of marijuana seeds...
...Joseph Papp, né Papirofsky, 37, floor manager for I've Got a Secret and other CBS-TV programs, founder and producer of New York City's nonprofit Shakespeare Festival, balked at saying whether he was a party member before February 1955. CBS fired...