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How Papp got it right: theatre's lineage--traced through Thespis, Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Joe Papp--is inextricably linked to democracy.(ANTECEDENTS)(Viewpoint essay)
American Theatre, January, 2007 by Eustis, Oskar
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I want to start with a story that is the founding myth of the institution I now lead, New York City's Public Theater. It's the story of Joseph Papp's struggle with Robert Moses. Moses was the most powerful man in New York City--one of the most powerful men in the country, in fact, during the 1950s, when the New York Shakespeare Festival was founded.
He was commissioner of parks and chairman of the Triborough Bridge Authority. Nothing got built, nothing public happened in this city in the way of capital projects, without going through Moses. He's more responsible for the look and ...
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