Joseph Papp

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Joseph Papp

Engineering

#3866

World Rank

#5001

Historical Rank

#1046

USA Rank

Architecture

#762

World Rank

#1362

Historical Rank

#216

USA Rank

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Why Is Joseph Papp Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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. Among numerous examples of these were the works of David Rabe, Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody , and Papp's production of Michael Bennett's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical A Chorus Line. Papp also founded Shakespeare in the Park, helped to develop other off-Broadway theatres and worked to preserve the historic Broadway Theatre District.

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