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...In the mid-1950s, Joseph Papp began staging free open-air Shakespeare plays in New York parks....
...The non-profit Public Theater, created in 1954 by Joseph Papp, has played a particularly crucial role in fostering this season’s successes....
...Miranda knew that by initially mounting his show, with director Thomas Kail, at New York’s Public Theater, he was placing himself in the lineage of the Public’s founder Joe Papp, who pioneered the practice...
...The classic model for the hands-on, tastemaking impresario in the performing arts may be Joseph Papp, who founded New York’s Public Theater (as The Shakespeare Workshop) in 1954 and ran it until his death...
...The show had a good initial run at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater in New York, but lasted less than a fortnight when it transferred to Broadway in 1984....
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