Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford first met and began to collaborate while students at DePauw University in Indiana. Later, they created a musical which was produced at Boston University while Miss Cryer was working on her Master's degree at Radcliffe. Now Is The Time For All Good Men, which was mounted at the Theatre de Lys in 1967, (in which Miss Cryer played the leading role and Miss Ford understudied all the women's roles) was their first New York production. It was followed by the off-Broadway hit The Last Sweet Days Of Isaac, which starred Austin Pendleton and whihc won ... read more
Joseph Papp was an American theatrical producer and director. He established The Public Theater in what had been the Astor Library Building in Lower Manhattan. There Papp created a year-round producing home to focus on new plays and musicals. ... read more
