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Joseph Papp

Date of Death: October 31, 1991 (70)

Birth Place: Brooklyn, NY, USA

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BIO

Joseph Papp 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.

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Productions

Tis Pity She's a Whore
 
[Off-Broadway, 1992]
Producer
Homo Sapien Shuffle
 
[Off-Broadway, 1992]
Producer
Before it Hits Home
 
[Off-Broadway, 1992]
Producer
No Shame
 
[Off-Broadway, 1992]
Producer
The Home Show Pieces
 
[Off-Broadway, 1992]
Producer
Reno Once Removed
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Producer
Pericles
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Producer
In the Jungle of Cities
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Producer
The Tempest
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Founder
Othello
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Founder
Dead Mother
 
[Off-Broadway, 1991]
Producer
A Bright Room Called Day
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
The Big Funk
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
The Fever
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Gonza the Lancer
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Machinal
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Through the Leaves
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Romeo and Juliet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Indecent Materials
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
The Tragedy of Richard III
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Artistic Director
The Taming of the Shrew
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Ice Cream with Hot Fudge
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Spunk:Three Tales by Zora Neale Hurston
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Jonah
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
One of the Guys
 
[Off-Broadway, 1990]
Producer
Macbeth
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Kingfish
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Kate's Diary
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Up Against It
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
The Secret Rapture
 
[Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Carnage, A Comedy
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
My Big Land (Sailor's Silence)
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Titus Andronicus
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Twelfth Night or What You Will
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Romance in Hard Times
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Producer
Cymbeline
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
The Forbidden City
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Director
Producer
Tempation
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
The Winter's Tale
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Songs of Paradise
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
Love's Labor's Lost
 
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Producer
For Dear Life
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Genesis: Music and Miracles
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Coriolanus
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
A Celebration of Paul Robeson
 
[Broadway, 1988]
Producer
What Did He See?
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Stranger Here Myself
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
King John
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Much Ado About Nothing
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
The Death of Garcia Lorca
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
The Imperialist at the Club Cave Canem
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Miracolo D'Amore
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Romeo and Juliet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Zero Positive
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Wenceslas Square
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
American Notes
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Julius Caesar
 
[Off-Broadway, 1988]
Producer
Serious Money
 
[Broadway, 1988]
Producer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
Serious Money
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
La Puta Vida Trilogy
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
Old Business
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
Henry IV Part I
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Director
Producer
Two Gentlemen of Verona
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
Richard II
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Director
Producer
Talk Radio
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
The Knife
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
Producer
My Gene
 
[Off-Broadway, 1987]
Producer
As You Like It
 
[Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Macbeth
 
[Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Romeo and Juliet
 
[Broadway, 1986]
Producer
The Colored Museum
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Medea
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Twelfth Night or What You Will
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Vienna: Lusthaus
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Cuba & His Teddy Bear
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Largo Desolato
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
Rum and Coke
 
[Off-Broadway, 1986]
Producer
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
 
[Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Aunt Dan and Lemon
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
A Map of the World
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Producer
Measure for Measure
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Director
Producer
Rat in the Skull
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
The Normal Heart
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Salonika
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Virginia
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Tom and Viv
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Coming of Age in Soho
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
Tracers
 
[Off-Broadway, 1985]
Producer
La Boheme
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
The Ballad of Soapy Smith
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
The Golem
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Henry V
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Ice Bridge
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Found a Peanut
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
The Nest of the Wood Grouse
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Director
Producer
Young Playwrights Festival (1984)
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
The Human Comedy
 
[Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Pieces of Eight
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Fen
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
Cinders
 
[Off-Broadway, 1984]
Producer
The Human Comedy
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Producer
Lenny and the Heartbreakers
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
A Private View
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Sound and Beauty
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
My Uncle Sam
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Non Pasquale
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Orgasmo Adulto Escapes From the Zoo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
King Richard III
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Goodnight Ladies!
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Fen
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Egyptology: My Head was a Sledgehammer
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Buried Inside Extra
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Director
Producer
Top Girls
 
[Off-Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Plenty
 
[Broadway, 1983]
Producer
Top Girls
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Director
Producer
Plenty
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Don Juan
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Red and Blue
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Goose and Tomtom
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Three Acts of Recognition
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Lullabye and Goodnight
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Zastrozzi
 
[Off-Broadway, 1982]
Producer
Twelve Dreams
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Family Devotions
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Ballad of Dexter Creed
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Laundry Hour
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Henry IV Part I
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Dance and the Railroad
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Tempest
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
How It All Began
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Waiting for Godot
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Il Campiello, a Venetian Comedy
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Haggadah, a Passover Cantata
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Long Day's Journey Into Night
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Mary Stuart
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Penguin Touquet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1981]
Producer
The Pirates of Penzance
 
[Broadway, 1981]
Producer
Alice in Concert
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Director
Producer
True West
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
Dead End Kids
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
The Seagull
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
The Pirates of Penzance
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
FOB
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
Mother Courage and Her Children
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
The Haggadah, a Passover Cantata
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
Salt Lake City Skyline
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
Marie and Bruce
 
[Off-Broadway, 1980]
Producer
Sorrows of Stephen
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
The Art of Dining
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Tongues
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Mercier & Camier
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Spell # 7
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Othello
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Coriolanus
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Happy Days
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Wake Up, It's Time to Go to Bed
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
The Woods
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Dispatches
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Sancocho
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Taken in Marriage
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Julius Caesar
 
[Off-Broadway, 1979]
Producer
Drinks Before Dinner
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
The Taming of the Shrew
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Spring Awakening
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Wings
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Mango Tango
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Producer
Runaways
 
[Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Runaways
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Curse of the Starving Class
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
Museum
 
[Off-Broadway, 1978]
Producer
A Prayer for My Daughter
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
The Water Engine
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
The Mandrake
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
The Dybbuk
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
A Photograph
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Producer
Tales of the Hasidim
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
The Misanthrope
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Miss Margarida's Way
 
[Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Landscape of the Body
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Agamemnon
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Miss Margarida's Way
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
The Threepenny Opera
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Agamemnon
 
[Broadway, 1977]
Producer
On the Lock-In
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Hagar's Children
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Ashes
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Marco Polo Sings a Solo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1977]
Producer
Henry V
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Director
Producer
A Chorus Line
 
[US Tour, 1976]
Producer
Rebel Women
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
So Nice, They Named it Twice
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
The Threepenny Opera
 
[Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Streamers
 
[Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Streamers
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Woyzeck
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
The Shortchanged Review
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Jinxs Bridge
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Rich and Famous
 
[Off-Broadway, 1976]
Producer
Jesse and the Bandit Queen
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
A Chorus Line
 
[Broadway, 1975]
Producer
The Comedy of Errors
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
The Taking of Miss Janie
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
A Chorus Line
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Alice in Wonderland
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Ghosts
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Fishing
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Kid Champion
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Our Late Night
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
The Seagull
 
[Off-Broadway, 1975]
Producer
Black Picture Show
 
[Broadway, 1975]
Producer
In the Boom Boom Room
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Mert & Phil
 
[Broadway, 1974]
Director
The Last Days of British Honduras
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Richard III
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Where Do We Go From Here?
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
The Measures Taken
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
The Merry Wives of Windsor
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
The Killdeer
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Les Femmes Noires
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
The Tempest
 
[Off-Broadway, 1974]
Producer
Barbary Shore
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
More Than You Deserve
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
Troilus and Cressida
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
Boom Boom Room
 
[Broadway, 1973]
Director
Producer
Lotta
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
King Lear
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
As You Like It
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Director
Producer
The Orphan
 
[Off-Broadway, 1973]
Producer
The Cherry Orchard
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
The Children
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
Wedding Band
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Director
Producer
Much Ado About Nothing
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
Ti-Jean and His Brothers
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
The Corner
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
That Championship Season
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
Black Visions
 
[Off-Broadway, 1972]
Producer
Wedding of Iphigenia and Iphigenia in Concert
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
The Black Terror
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Sticks and Bones
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
The Tale of Cymbeline
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Two Gentlemen of Verona
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Two Gentlemen of Verona
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Timon of Athens
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Dance Wi' Me
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Underground
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Candide
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Blood
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Here Are Ladies
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Slag
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Subjects to Fits
 
[Off-Broadway, 1971]
Producer
Jack MacGowran in the Works of Samuel Beckett
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
Trelawney of the 'Wells'
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
The Happiness Cage
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
Sambo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
Richard III
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
The Chronicles of King Henry VI, Part 2
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
The Chronicles of King Henry VI, Part 1
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Producer
Mod Donna
 
[Off-Broadway, 1970]
Director
Producer
Sambo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
Stomp
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
Twelfth Night
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Director
Producer
Peer Gynt
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
No Place To Be Somebody
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
Invitation to a Beheading
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
Cities in Bezique
 
[Off-Broadway, 1969]
Producer
Huui Huui
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Director
Producer
Romeo and Juliet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Director
Producer
Henry IV Part 2
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Producer
Henry IV Part 1
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Producer
The Memorandum
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Director
Producer
Ergo
 
[Off-Broadway, 1968]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1967]
Director
Producer
Hair
 
[Off-Broadway, 1967]
Producer
Troilus and Cressida
 
[Off-Broadway, 1965]
Director
Producer
Coriolanus
 
[Off-Broadway, 1965]
Producer
Love's Labor's Lost
 
[Off-Broadway, 1965]
Producer
Othello
 
[Off-Broadway, 1964]
Producer
Hamlet
 
[Off-Broadway, 1964]
Director
Producer
Electra
 
[Off-Broadway, 1964]
Producer
Othello
 
[Off-Broadway, 1964]
Producer
Twelfth Night
 
[Off-Broadway, 1963]
Director
Producer
Macbeth
 
[Off-Broadway, 1962]
Producer
King Lear
 
[Off-Broadway, 1962]
Director
Producer
The Merchant of Venice
 
[Off-Broadway, 1962]
Director
Producer
Julius Caesar
 
[Off-Broadway, 1962]
Director
Comes a Day
 
[Broadway, 1958]
Stage Manager
As You Like It
 
[Off-Broadway, 1958]
Producer
Richard III
 
[Off-Broadway, 1957]
Producer

Movies

Such Good Friends
[ 1971 ] His Shakespeare Theatre
The Mind Snatchers
[ 1972 ] producer
The Pirates of Penzance
[ 1983 ] producer
Plenty
[ 1985 ] producer

Awards and Nominations


winner
Obie Awards - 1990 - Special Citations for his courageous stand against censorship

Joseph Papp


winner
Drama League Awards - 1989 - Unique Contribution to the Theatre

Joseph Papp


winner
Tony Awards - 1986 - Best Musical

Joseph Papp, The Mystery of Edwin Drood


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1984 - Special Awards

Joseph Papp


winner
Drama Desk Awards - 1984 - Special Awards

Joseph Papp

Tony Awards - 1983 - Best Play

Joseph Papp, Plenty


winner
Tony Awards - 1981 - Best Revival

Joseph Papp, The Pirates of Penzance


winner
Theatre World Awards - 1978 - Performance

Joseph PappSpecial Award

Tony Awards - 1978 - Best Musical

Joseph Papp, Runaways

Tony Awards - 1977 - Best Play

Joseph Papp, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Tony Awards - 1977 - Best Play

Joseph Papp, Streamers

Tony Awards - 1977 - Most Innovative Production of a Revival

Joseph Papp, Threepenny Opera


winner
Tony Awards - 1976 - Best Musical

Joseph Papp, A Chorus Line


winner
Obie Awards - 1975 - Special 20--year Obies

Joseph Papp

Tony Awards - 1974 - Best Play

Joseph Papp, The Au Pair Man

Tony Awards - 1974 - Best Play

Joseph Papp, Boom Boom Room


winner
Tony Awards - 1972 - Best Musical

Joseph Papp, Two Gentleman of Verona


winner
Outer Critics Circle Awards - 1958 - Special Citation

Joseph Papp

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Tony and Emmy- Winner Mandy Patinkin Takes the Stage at Cobb Great Hall in October Photo
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Broadway's master songman, Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by Adam Ben-David on piano, will bring his newest theatre concert Mandy Patinkin in Concert: BEING ALIVE, to Wharton Center for one night only on Tuesday, October 22, at 7:30PM.
GOOD BONES by James Ijames Extends at The Public Through Late October Photo
GOOD BONES by James Ijames Extends at The Public Through Late October

The Public Theater will begin performances for the New York premiere of GOOD BONES, written by Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames. The production has been extended. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Circle Theatre to Present THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY Next Month Photo
Circle Theatre to Present THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY Next Month

Circle Theatre will present The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Obie Award-winning playwright Kristoffer Diaz from October 3 through 26th.
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Top Off-Broadway Shows for September 2024

What's happening off-Broadway? BroadwayWorld is here to guide you through the top picks for theatre in the month of September.
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Westport Country Playhouse Script In Hand Playreading Of SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING

Westport Country Playhouse will present a Script in Hand playreading of SATCHEL PAIGE AND THE KANSAS CITY SWING on September 9.
Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh To Lead TWELFTH NI Photo
Peter Dinklage, Lupita Nyong'o, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Sandra Oh To Lead TWELFTH NIGHT At Shakespeare in the Park

Peter Dinklage (Malvolio), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Andrew Aguecheek), Lupita Nyong’o (Viola), and Sandra Oh (Olivia) will lead Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT, directed by The Public’s Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director Saheem Ali, which will reopen the revitalized Delacorte Theater in August 2025.
Cast Announced For James Ijames' GOOD BONES At The Public Theater Photo
Cast Announced For James Ijames' GOOD BONES At The Public Theater

The Public Theater has announced casting for the long-anticipated New York premiere of GOOD BONES written by Pulitzer Prize winner James Ijames and directed by Public Theater Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director Saheem Ali.
Full Casting Announced For A Chorus Line at Festival Theatre Photo
Full Casting Announced For A Chorus Line at Festival Theatre

Full cast announced for the UK tour of the Curve production of A Chorus Line.
West Boca Community Theatre To Celebrate The Legacy of Joe Papp This June Photo
West Boca Community Theatre To Celebrate The Legacy of Joe Papp This June

Join the West Boca Community Theater on June 22nd for a musical celebration honoring the legacy of Joe Papp, a pivotal figure in American theater.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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 the Obie Awards, Unique Contribution to the Theatre at the Drama League Awards, Best Musical for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at the Tony Awards, Special Awards at the Drama Desk Awards, Best Play for "Plenty" at the Tony Awards, Best Revival for "The Pirates of Penzance" at the Tony Awards, Performance at the Theatre World Awards for Special Award, Best Musical for "Runaways" at the Tony Awards, Best Play for "for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf" at the Tony Awards, Best Play for "Streamers" at the Tony Awards, Most Innovative Production of a Revival for "Threepenny Opera" at the Tony Awards, Best Musical for "A Chorus Line" at the Tony Awards, Special 20-year Obies at the Obie Awards, Best Play for "The Au Pair Man" at the Tony Awards, Best Play for "Boom Boom Room" at the Tony Awards, Best Musical for "Two Gentleman of Verona" at the Tony Awards, and a Special Citation at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

What awards has Joseph Papp won?

Joseph Papp has won several awards throughout his career. These include Special Citations for his courageous stand against censorship at the Obie Awards, Unique Contribution to the Theatre at the Drama League Awards, Best Musical at the Tony Awards for The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Special Awards at the Drama Desk Awards, Best Revival at the Tony Awards for The Pirates of Penzance, Performance at the Theatre World Awards for Special Award, Best Musical at the Tony Awards for A Chorus Line, Special 20-year Obies at the Obie Awards, Best Musical at the Tony Awards for Two Gentleman of Verona, and a Special Citation at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

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