&;Richard Nelson uses the stage not as a pedestal but as a field of whispered dreams.&; &;Michael Schulman, New YorkerIt is 1958. In the midst of a building boom in New York City, Joe Papp and his colleagues are facing pressure from the city&;s elite as they continue their free Shakespeare in Central Park. From the creator of the most celebrated family plays of the last decade comes a drama about a different kind of family&;one held together by the belief that the theater, and the city, belong to all of us.