Gallery
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Gail moving into her office at the Public Theater, 1966. (Photo: Gail Papp)
Playwright Ntozake Shange (center) with, to her left, her parents, Eloise and Dr. Paul T. Williams; to her right, her husband, jazz musician David Murray, Joe and Gail, 1977. (Photo: Papp Estate)
Gail and Joe walking home from the Public Theater, 1973. (Photo: Papp Estate)
Joe and Gail outside the Choral Synagogue in Moscow, 1979. (Photo: Papp Estate)
The Joseph Papp Yiddish Theater Group,” 1995. From left, Barbara Carroll (Joe’s former Executive Assistant), JPYT Founder-director Avi Hoffman, JPYT Board member Gail, Founder-playwright Miriam Hoffman, supporter Sonya Staff, and Founder-playwright Rena Borow. (Photo: Papp Estate)
Joe and Gail at the cast recording of A Chorus Line, 1975. (Photo: Frederic Ohringer)
Composer Elizabeth Swados with Joe and Gail, 1978. (Photo: Public Theater)
President of the Czech Republic and playwright Vaclav Havel and Gail at a Public Theater reception honoring him in 2006. (Photo: Public Theater)
Joe directing the Mobile Theater’s Henry V with Robert Hooks, Ellen Holly, and Lynn Hamilton, 1965. (Photo: Paul DeMaria-New York Daily News-Getty Images)
Gail and Joe with Ramon “Mungo” Castro, one of Fidel’s older brothers, at his collective dairy farm in Cuba in 1984. (Photo: Papp Estate)
Revelers at 2011 Delacorte Theater Gala. From left, Mandy Patinkin, Estelle Parsons, Kathryn Grody, Rosemary Jordan, Gail, Rosemarie Tichler, Nancy Piccione. Gail was honored with a Playwright Fellowship in her name. (Photo: Anita & Steve Shevett)
The Joseph Papp Public Theater flag outside the Public Theater. (Photo: Public Theater)
Joe and Gail in 1978 (Photo: Adam Scully/PHOTOlink/MediaPunch)
Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Chair of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center, Producer George C. Wolfe, Gail, and Mandy Patinkin with the Center’s Cultural Medallion honoring Joe and the Public Theater, 1996. (Photo: Papp Estate)
Joe and Gail Papp working at home
Photo © Estate of Barbra Walz
Exterior of the Public Theater
Photo © Afton Merrifield Rodriguez