When Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater, first read “The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer’s sprawling 1985 play about the early days of the AIDS crisis, he thought it was a mess. “This is one of the worst things I’ve ever read,” Papp said. But the pla

The final commission by legendary producer Joseph Papp, whose death shortly after the work was completed caused it to remain unperformed, HAMLET Soundtheater/Opera is interwoven with spiritual and sexual conflicts. It challenges boundary lines, and is mu

New York actor Steel Burkhardt has been making a living singing, dancing and stripping in Diane Paulus' revival of the Broadway musical "Hair" since he graduated from college in 2007. First he was cast as a member of the ensemble in the Delacorte Theatre

In the flesh, she does not have an aura. She's not lit from within. Heads do not snap in her direction when she walks through a hotel lobby in a baggy maxi-dress and brown calf-high boots, flanked by her dutiful make-up artist of 35 years and her imperio

During his dissident years, Vaclav Havel was a critical favorite Off-Broadway. Joseph Papp's Public Theater was a particular champion of the Czech writer's work, producing The Memorandum in 1968, as well as Audience in 1983, Largo Desolato in 1986 and Te

Actor and musician Thomas Martell Brimm, who appeared on Broadway in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" and onstage across the world and also worked to broaden access to the arts, died from kidney failure in Los Angeles on Nov. 30. He was 75. Brimm dev