Broadway has been on life support for the past couple of years, so the belated arrival of the documentary “Joe Papp in Five Acts” is a well-timed tribute to one of the more influential figures of the ...

3 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere As the first production of GableStage's 23rd season, The Price, draws to a close after being met with rave reviews, the award-winning theatre is ...

What awards has Joseph Papp been nominated for? Joseph Papp has been nominated for several awards throughout his career. These include Special Citations for his courageous stand against censorship at ...

This morning we're looking back at a Brooklyn boy who grew up in poverty in a Yiddish speaking household. He never went to college, but he went on to bring the finest writer in the English language to ...

The Brooklyn-born Jewish theatrical producer and director Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky) died of prostate cancer almost exactly eighteen years ago, and has never been more missed, as “Free for ...

When developing Free Shakespeare in the Park, Joe Papp wanted people to feel represented. When developing Free Shakespeare in the Park, it was important to Joe Papp that people felt represented in the ...

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Joe Papp was best known as an adventurous producer of new work and his particular gifts are on display in the story of “That Championship Season,” a Pulitzer-winning play about the troubled reunion of ...

He brought the Bard full circle — and back to the public. On the the 60th anniversary season of Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, a long-awaited documentary on the life ...

Early in my career, long before I had any inkling that I would become a drama critic, I had the privilege of being a fly on the wall at the center of the theatrical universe. At the time, I was ...

FAIRFIELD — Joe Papp, a Fairfield resident, baseball coach and "larger than life" presence died this week, a friend said. In a GoFundMe page for the family, Steve Bowley said Joe Papp died on Tuesday ...