Joseph Papp
May, 1972
"Success," writes Wall Street Journal reviewer Irma Heldman, "doesn't exactly bore Joseph Papp, he [just] manages to operate independently of it." The New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater will be 19 this year, and from humble beginnings--"An Evening with Shakespeare and Marlowe" at a church on Manhattan's Lower East Side--and with a boundless passion, producer Papp has almost singlehandedly built what New York Times critic Clive Barnes has called "the m...
