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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05PM on October 30, 2017