Illyria Review: a Scrappy Joe Papp and the Public Theater's Birth Pains
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park that he seemed destined to lose. That's the story in Illyria, a play written and directed by Richard Nelson, who tells his well-researched […] The post Illyria Review: a Scrappy Joe Papp and the Public Theater's Birth P…