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Article: A Bright Room Called Day. (Public Theater, New York, New York)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 18, 1991
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If there is a single theatrical institution that can be regarded as the prime example of Alternative Theater-i.e., all that is Off Broadway in spirit as well as topographically-it would surely be the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, whose five stages have been housed in the Astor Library in lower Manhattan since 1967.
Some few of the 400 plays produced there have moved to Broadway and become hits (notably, Hair, Drood, The Pirates of Penzance and A Chorus Line), while another considerable portion of its energies have perpetuated its founder Joseph Papp's original project of presenting free Shakespeare productions in Central Park as well as regular ...