Tony Award-winning playwright and director Richard Nelson returns to the Public to reveal a forgotten chapter of the Public Theater’s own history.
... Read moreIt is 1958, and New York City is in the midst of a major building boom; a four-lane highway is planned for the heart of Washington Square; Carnegie Hall is designated for demolition; entire neighborhoods on the West Side are leveled to make room for a new 'palace of art.' And a young Joe Papp and his colleagues face betrayals, self-inflicted wounds, and anger from the city’s powerful elite as they continue their free Shakespeare productions in Central Park.
'Illyria' is a family drama about a different kind of family – one held together by the simple and incredibly complicated belief that the theater, and the city, belong to all of us.
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- Opens on October 22nd, 2017
- Public Theater / Anspacher Theater (East Village)
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