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Joseph Papp (born Joseph Papirofsky; June 22, 1921 – October 31, 1991) was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals.
Jun 18, 2024 · Joseph Papp (born June 22, 1921, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died October 31, 1991, New York, New York) was an American theatrical producer and director, founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater.
May 23, 2022 · From 1954 until his death in 1991, Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. Read about his life.
Nov 1, 1991 · Joseph Papp, director of the New York Shakespeare Festival and one of the most influential producers in the history of the American theater, died yesterday at his home in Greenwich...
Nov 13, 2009 · A scrappy Brooklyn kid, the son of a Yiddish-speaking trunk maker, Papp, who never went to college, founded and ran for decades two of New York City’s signal cultural landmarks, the New York...
Sep 7, 2017 · It’s an approach that might well have warmed the heart of that prescient champion of multiculturalism in the arts — and son of Russian immigrants — Joseph Papp.
Jun 3, 2022 · Papp’s rise from the rough-and-tumble Brooklyn streets to free Shakespeare in a church basement to the largest nonprofit theater in America is told in Joe Papp in Five Acts, a new American Masters documentary airing on PBS on June 3, directed and produced by Holder and Thorsen.
Theatrical producer and director; founder in 1954 of the New York Shakespeare Festival and in 1967 of the Public Theatre. Through his efforts and foresight, "Hair" (1967) and "A Chorus Line" (1975), among other productions, came to the Broadway stage.
Nov 1, 1991 · Joseph Papp, a giant of the American stage who brought free open-air productions of Shakespeare to two generations of theatergoers, created the nation’s most important showcase for new...
Jun 6, 2022 · In the years after World War II, Papp was chief architect of an American theater culture that was radically accessible and profoundly civic. Papp’s storied career—a rags-to-riches arc that...
