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The Federal Theatre began in\n         1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and\n         only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the\n         United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was\n         a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during\n         the Depression. Jobs were provided for many people, including\n         actors, playwrights, scene designers, scene builders,\n         seamstresses, lighting experts, ushers, box-office men, and\n         stagehands.","Like many New Deal programs implemented by President\n         Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Federal Theatre Project was\n         intended not only to benefit its participants, but also to\n         enrich the condition of the nation. Theater was a\n         distinguished part of American popular culture, but the\n         economic downturn of the Depression had bankrupted the entire\n         theater industry. As the theater houses closed down, the\n         nation was left without an outlet for theatrical creativity.\n         According to Hallie Flanagan, this hurt the nation as much as\n         it hurt the theater industry - indeed, the nation was their\n         audience and the theater could provide entertaining\n         distractions from the effects of Depression as well as offer\n         commentary on present conditions.","But it was not enough to simply return to the\n         pre-Depression concept of theater. In the first meeting her\n         staff Flanagan expressed her willingness to follow Roosevelt's\n         experimental approach to public policy: \"In a changing world,\n         a world of experiment, the stage too must experiment - with\n         ideas, with the psychological relationship of men and women,\n         with color and light.... The theatre must grow up.\"","Flanagan pursued her ideal of developing the relationship\n         between the Federal Theatre and the federal government: \"Any\n         theatre sponsored by the government of the United States\n         should do no plays of a cheap, trivial, outworn or vulgar\n         nature, but only such plays as the Government can stand\n         proudly behind in a planned theatrical program, national in\n         scope, regional in emphasis, and American in democratic\n         attitude.\" To Flanagan, it was imperative that this new\n         theater should be progressive and experimental, yet within a\n         patriotic and informative framework.","The productions that best embodied Flanagan's views on\n         theater were the Living Newspapers. These hard-hitting,\n         poignant plays dealt with contemporary factual material,\n         dramatizing issues such as housing, agriculture, labor, and\n         destitution. Always ending on an upbeat note, Living\n         Newspapers underscored the importance of hard work and\n         morality in overcoming difficult times. Living Newspaper\n         titles include: Triple A Plowed Under, Injunction Granted, One\n         Third of a Nation, and Spirocheta.","The Federal Theatre was noted for employing black Americans\n         at a time when the Federal Government did not actively protect\n         the rights of minorities. The \"Negro Theater\" (as it was\n         called in the 1930s) was an established industry before the\n         Depression, and it greatly contributed to the success of the\n         Federal Theatre Project. Some of the most spectacular\n         productions were put on by black theater professionals, for\n         example: Macbeth, Haiti, Turpentine, Run Little Chillun, and\n         The Trial of Dr. Beck.","Processed by Special Collections and Archives staff.\n","Special Collections and Archives holds the Federal Theatre Project collection, which includes numerous personal and organizational records as well as oral histories.\n","The Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript\n         Collection \n         contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written\n         and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project.\n         Also included is a collection of 62 copied Federal Theatre\n         programs, handbills given to the audience at the beginning of\n         a production. There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a\n         book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre\n         Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in\n         the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles,\n         Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes.","Adelante, Battle Hymn, Beyond the Horizon, Big\n                     Blow, Black Empire, Both Your Houses, Children's\n                     Autum Festival, Class of '29, Cradle Will Rock,\n                     Dance of Death, The Devil Passes, Dr. Faustus,\n                     Emperor's New Clothes, Fantacy 1929, Frankie and\n                     Jonny, Fly Away Home, Green Grow the Lilacs, Hell\n                     Bent for Heaven, Help Yourself, Horse Eats Hat,\n                     How Long Brethren, Doris Humphrey-Charles Weidman\n                     Dance Program, It Can't Happen Here, Jonny\n                     Johnson, Judgement Day, Justice, Like Falling\n                     Leaves, The Lonely Man, Long Voyage Home, Madame\n                     X, The Man-The Tree, Merchant of Venice, The Milky\n                     Way, Night Must Fall, O Say Can You Sing, One\n                     Sunday Afternoon, One-Third of a Nation, Outward\n                     Bound, Pinocchio, Power, Prologue to Glory,\n                     Persuit of Happiness, Ready!Aim!Fire!, Redemption,\n                     Revolt of the Beavers, Sing for Your Supper, Six\n                     Characters in Search of an Author, Spirochete,\n                     Story of Ferdinand, Sun and I, Sun Rises in the\n                     West, Swing Parade, Taming of the Shrew, Theatre\n                     of the Southwest, Trojan Incident, Twelfth Night,\n                     Twilight of the Theatre, When Knighthood Was in\n                     Flower, Young Choreographers Laboratory, Young\n                     Tramps","by George H. Corey","by George H. Corey","by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play","by John Wiley; Suggested by a Story of Edgar\n                     Allen Poe's","by Virginia Yetes","by Thomas Hall-Rogers","by Thomas Hall-Rogers","A Peace Pageant for All Grades; The Catholic\n                     School Journal","by Alfred Kreymborg; A Mass Recital","by Langston Hughes; A One-Act Play of Negro\n                     Life","by Ben Heck and Eugene O'Heel; With a smirk at\n                     Irving Berlin and Moss Hart","by Porter Emerson Brown","by H. R. Hays","by Herb Meadow","by Herb Meadow; A Waterfront Tragedy; play\n                     reader reports","by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold","by Mary Dirnberger; Dramatized from the\n                     familiar fairy tale","by John W. Dunn; A play of early Oklahoma\n                     life","by Theodore Pratt; Dramatized from the Novel by\n                     Theodore Pratt","by Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy","by Christine Ames and Clarke Painter; A\n                     Drama","by Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen","by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford;\n                     A play of our time; Based on a story by Whittaker\n                     Chambers","by Geo. McEnlee","by German List Arzubide; Adapted from a story\n                     by Anton Chekhov; Translated by Angel Flores","by john Woodworth; A legend... about Belle\n                     Starr, Queen of the desperadoes","by John W. Dunn","by Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for\n                     Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw","by H. Jack Bates; A Negro Folk Play","by Rose Carlyn","by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings","by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings","by Paul Green; Music by Kurt Weill; A Legend of\n                     American Life","by A. Callen, M. Worthington, and I. Reuben","by Oliver Haserodt","by Marc Blitzstein","by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle","by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle","by Joaquin Miller","by Arnold Sundgaard; A History","by George Foss","by Grant Moss","by Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy","by Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living\n                     Newspaper Play","by Elizabeth McFadden","by Charlotte Kohler","by Arthur Arent; Th First \"Living Newspaper\";\n                     from Educational Theatre Journal, v. 10, # 1;\n                     Introduction by Dan Isaac","by Will T. Goodwin; Working Script","by Emmet Lavery; \"This book is a postscript to\n                     the history of Federal Theatre as recorded by\n                     Hallie Flanagan in Arena, published in December,\n                     1940 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. It\n                     carries on where Arena leaves off and should,\n                     consequently, be read as a companion volume to\n                     Mrs. Flanagan's book.\"","by Georgia Douglas Johnson","by Georgia Douglas Johnson","by Theodore Browne; Based on the Life and Times\n                     of Harriet Tubman","by Ridgely Torrence; A Play for the Negro\n                     Theatre","by Howard Koch; A Comedy of Recent Times","by Anna Friedman; A Roosevelt Play","by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries","by Abram Hill","by Paul Green","by Maria M. 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B. Chorpenning","by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin","by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin","by Maud Wood Park","by Theodore Browne; An \"African Version\"","by William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by\n                     Orson Welles; Complete Working Script","by William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by\n                     Orson Welles; Complete Working Script","by Oscar Saul","A Pageant of the New Deal","by W. S. Gilbert; The Town of Titifu","by Plautus; translated by Clarence P. Bill","by Hans Chlumberg","by Ramon Romero; An Historical Play","by Muriel Fox, Marie Reed, Suzette Telenga, and\n                     Jane Whitbread; A Musical Satire","by Theodore Brown; Based on the Legend of John\n                     Henry","by students of Commonwealth College;\n                     Commonwealth College Fortnightly","by Harold Igo.","by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspsper about\n                     Housing","by Grace H. 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Washington Porter; A Tragedy of Negro\n                     Life","by Richard Oliver; A Living Newspaper Play","by Margaret Lesueur and Momodu Johnson; a Drama\n                     of Native Africa","by Hall Johnson; Across the River","by Hall Johnson; Across the River","Living Newspaper","by Upton Sinclair; A Little Play for the White\n                     Collar Folks","by Christobel Morley Cordell","by Phyllis Clare Flannery; A Farce Satire","Dramatist Guild Contest Play #60","by George Savage","by Florence Clothier; A Play of the Labrador\n                     Coast","by Oliver Goldsmith; The Mistakes of a\n                     Night","by Fall River","by Janet Hartman and Hallie Flanagan","by Jo Basshe","Joseph Lawrence; A Comedy","by Grace Welsh Lutgen","by Eugene Deaderick, Cyrilla P. Lindner, Max\n                     Mansbach, Lorin Raker; A Living Newspaper","by Arnold Sundgaard; A History","by Robert Ardrey; A Comedy","by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play","by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play","by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play","by Countee Cullen and Arna Bontempa","by Otis Chatfield-Taylor","by Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama","by Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama","by David Pinsky; A Grotesque Comedy","by William dorsey Blake; A Living Newspaper\n                     Play","by Florine Schwartz; A Play for Children","by Anna M. Lutkenhaus","by Arthur A. Miller","by Arthur A. Miller","by Arthur A. Miller","by Gertrude Tonkonogy","by Myrtly Mary Moss and Burke Ormsby; A play on\n                     deforestation and reforestation","by marie Baumer; from the novel by Leane\n                     Zugsmith","by John Broome","by Robinson Jeffers; A Play in Poetic Form","by george Murray and David Pelts; A Living\n                     Newspaper on Pensions","by Jules Eckert Goodman","by Hughes Allison","by Ward Courtney; The Moon is Steel; Carnival\n                     for Bolt; North","Based on homer and Euripides","by Eleanor Phelps","by Langston Hughes","by J. A. Smith and P. 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Moyer; Oscar Wilde\n                     Cycle","Audition Program","by Benet Costa","by Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Georgia Fawcett;\n                     Ibsen Cycle","by Leo Fontaine; A Radio Series","There are no restrictions.\n","The Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript\n         Collection \n         contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written\n         and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project.\n","George Mason University.  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As the theater houses closed down, the\n         nation was left without an outlet for theatrical creativity.\n         According to Hallie Flanagan, this hurt the nation as much as\n         it hurt the theater industry - indeed, the nation was their\n         audience and the theater could provide entertaining\n         distractions from the effects of Depression as well as offer\n         commentary on present conditions.","But it was not enough to simply return to the\n         pre-Depression concept of theater. In the first meeting her\n         staff Flanagan expressed her willingness to follow Roosevelt's\n         experimental approach to public policy: \"In a changing world,\n         a world of experiment, the stage too must experiment - with\n         ideas, with the psychological relationship of men and women,\n         with color and light.... 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There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a\n         book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre\n         Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in\n         the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles,\n         Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdelante, Battle Hymn, Beyond the Horizon, Big\n                     Blow, Black Empire, Both Your Houses, Children's\n                     Autum Festival, Class of '29, Cradle Will Rock,\n                     Dance of Death, The Devil Passes, Dr. Faustus,\n                     Emperor's New Clothes, Fantacy 1929, Frankie and\n                     Jonny, Fly Away Home, Green Grow the Lilacs, Hell\n                     Bent for Heaven, Help Yourself, Horse Eats Hat,\n                     How Long Brethren, Doris Humphrey-Charles Weidman\n                     Dance Program, It Can't Happen Here, Jonny\n                     Johnson, Judgement Day, Justice, Like Falling\n                     Leaves, The Lonely Man, Long Voyage Home, Madame\n                     X, The Man-The Tree, Merchant of Venice, The Milky\n                     Way, Night Must Fall, O Say Can You Sing, One\n                     Sunday Afternoon, One-Third of a Nation, Outward\n                     Bound, Pinocchio, Power, Prologue to Glory,\n                     Persuit of Happiness, Ready!Aim!Fire!, Redemption,\n                     Revolt of the Beavers, Sing for Your Supper, Six\n                     Characters in Search of an Author, Spirochete,\n                     Story of Ferdinand, Sun and I, Sun Rises in the\n                     West, Swing Parade, Taming of the Shrew, Theatre\n                     of the Southwest, Trojan Incident, Twelfth Night,\n                     Twilight of the Theatre, When Knighthood Was in\n                     Flower, Young Choreographers Laboratory, Young\n                     Tramps\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby George H. Corey\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby George H. Corey\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Wiley; Suggested by a Story of Edgar\n                     Allen Poe's\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Virginia Yetes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Thomas Hall-Rogers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Thomas Hall-Rogers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Peace Pageant for All Grades; The Catholic\n                     School Journal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Alfred Kreymborg; A Mass Recital\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Langston Hughes; A One-Act Play of Negro\n                     Life\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ben Heck and Eugene O'Heel; With a smirk at\n                     Irving Berlin and Moss Hart\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Porter Emerson Brown\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby H. R. Hays\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Herb Meadow\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Herb Meadow; A Waterfront Tragedy; play\n                     reader reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Mary Dirnberger; Dramatized from the\n                     familiar fairy tale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John W. Dunn; A play of early Oklahoma\n                     life\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Theodore Pratt; Dramatized from the Novel by\n                     Theodore Pratt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Christine Ames and Clarke Painter; A\n                     Drama\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford;\n                     A play of our time; Based on a story by Whittaker\n                     Chambers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Geo. McEnlee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby German List Arzubide; Adapted from a story\n                     by Anton Chekhov; Translated by Angel Flores\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby john Woodworth; A legend... about Belle\n                     Starr, Queen of the desperadoes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John W. Dunn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for\n                     Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby H. Jack Bates; A Negro Folk Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Rose Carlyn\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Paul Green; Music by Kurt Weill; A Legend of\n                     American Life\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby A. Callen, M. Worthington, and I. Reuben\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Oliver Haserodt\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Marc Blitzstein\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Joaquin Miller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arnold Sundgaard; A History\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby George Foss\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Grant Moss\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living\n                     Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Elizabeth McFadden\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Charlotte Kohler\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur Arent; Th First \"Living Newspaper\";\n                     from Educational Theatre Journal, v. 10, # 1;\n                     Introduction by Dan Isaac\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Will T. Goodwin; Working Script\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Emmet Lavery; \"This book is a postscript to\n                     the history of Federal Theatre as recorded by\n                     Hallie Flanagan in Arena, published in December,\n                     1940 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. It\n                     carries on where Arena leaves off and should,\n                     consequently, be read as a companion volume to\n                     Mrs. Flanagan's book.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Georgia Douglas Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Georgia Douglas Johnson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Theodore Browne; Based on the Life and Times\n                     of Harriet Tubman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ridgely Torrence; A Play for the Negro\n                     Theatre\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Howard Koch; A Comedy of Recent Times\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Anna Friedman; A Roosevelt Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Gertrude Worthington Jeffries\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Abram Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Paul Green\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Maria M. Coxe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Noah Elstein\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis; #1 Script\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John McGee\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby H. L. Fishel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby H. L. Fishel\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Frank B. Wells; Tracking Down a Negro\n                     Legend, a Saga\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Living Newspaper Presents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Living Newspaper Presents\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby George Sklar\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby C. B. Chorpenning\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Lawrence and Sylvia Martin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Lawrence and Sylvia Martin\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Maud Wood Park\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Theodore Browne; An \"African Version\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by\n                     Orson Welles; Complete Working Script\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by\n                     Orson Welles; Complete Working Script\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Oscar Saul\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Pageant of the New Deal\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby W. S. Gilbert; The Town of Titifu\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Plautus; translated by Clarence P. Bill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hans Chlumberg\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ramon Romero; An Historical Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Muriel Fox, Marie Reed, Suzette Telenga, and\n                     Jane Whitbread; A Musical Satire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Theodore Brown; Based on the Legend of John\n                     Henry\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby students of Commonwealth College;\n                     Commonwealth College Fortnightly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Harold Igo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur Arent; A Living Newspsper about\n                     Housing\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Grace H. Swift; A Pageant\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hughes Allison\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eadapted by Yasha Frank\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robert Russell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robert Whitehand\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Albert Maltz; Anti-Fascist Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Howard Lawson\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Friedrich Wolf\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Claudia Hatch\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robert Sturgis\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby P. Washington Porter; A Tragedy of Negro\n                     Life\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Richard Oliver; A Living Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Margaret Lesueur and Momodu Johnson; a Drama\n                     of Native Africa\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hall Johnson; Across the River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hall Johnson; Across the River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Upton Sinclair; A Little Play for the White\n                     Collar Folks\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Christobel Morley Cordell\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Phyllis Clare Flannery; A Farce Satire\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDramatist Guild Contest Play #60\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby George Savage\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Florence Clothier; A Play of the Labrador\n                     Coast\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Oliver Goldsmith; The Mistakes of a\n                     Night\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Fall River\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Janet Hartman and Hallie Flanagan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Jo Basshe\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJoseph Lawrence; A Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Grace Welsh Lutgen\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Eugene Deaderick, Cyrilla P. Lindner, Max\n                     Mansbach, Lorin Raker; A Living Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arnold Sundgaard; A History\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robert Ardrey; A Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Countee Cullen and Arna Bontempa\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Otis Chatfield-Taylor\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Shotwell Callvert; a Musical Drama\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby David Pinsky; A Grotesque Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby William dorsey Blake; A Living Newspaper\n                     Play\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Florine Schwartz; A Play for Children\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Anna M. Lutkenhaus\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur A. Miller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur A. Miller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Arthur A. Miller\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Gertrude Tonkonogy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Myrtly Mary Moss and Burke Ormsby; A play on\n                     deforestation and reforestation\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby marie Baumer; from the novel by Leane\n                     Zugsmith\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Broome\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Robinson Jeffers; A Play in Poetic Form\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby george Murray and David Pelts; A Living\n                     Newspaper on Pensions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Jules Eckert Goodman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hughes Allison\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ward Courtney; The Moon is Steel; Carnival\n                     for Bolt; North\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBased on homer and Euripides\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Eleanor Phelps\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Langston Hughes\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby J. A. Smith and P. Morell; A folk drama of\n                     the Florida Pine woods\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife Among the Lowly\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Eden White; A Rollicking Comedy\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlay Reader Report\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving Newspaper\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Frances Gordon Strunsky\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003etranslated from the Yiddish by Julius Schmerler\n                     and Isidore Edelman\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Elmer Rice\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Clemence Dane\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Samuel Jesse Warshawsky\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Molly Day Thacher\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby maxine Schiel; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Fleming; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Fleming; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Fleming; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Jack Barefield; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Oscar Wilde; adapted by Donald Macfarlane;\n                     Oscar Wilde Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hendrik Ibsen; adapted by Harry Goldsmith;\n                     Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Hendrik Ibsen; Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Oscar Wilde; adapted by Donald Macfarlane;\n                     Oscar Wilde Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Harry Goldsmith;\n                     Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Georgia Backus; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Donald Macfarlane;\n                     Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Maxine Schiel; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Howard Koch; adapted by Lawrence Levey;\n                     Federal Theatre of the Air\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Ben Hawthorne; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby John Fleming; Mystery Dramas\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Charles Crumpton;\n                     Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eadapted by Lewis W. Moyer; Oscar Wilde\n                     Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudition Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Benet Costa\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Henrik Ibsen; adapted by Georgia Fawcett;\n                     Ibsen Cycle\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eby Leo Fontaine; A Radio Series\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["The Federal Theatre Project Playscript and Radioscript\n         Collection \n         contains over 200 copied playscripts and radioscripts, written\n         and performed in the 1930s for the Federal Theatre Project.\n         Also included is a collection of 62 copied Federal Theatre\n         programs, handbills given to the audience at the beginning of\n         a production. There is also a copy of The Flexible Stage, a\n         book by Emmet Lavery about the history of the Federal Theatre\n         Project. And there are the works of several noted authors in\n         the collection, including Upton Sinclair, Orson Welles,\n         Sinclair Lewis, Arthur Arent, and Langston Hughes.","Adelante, Battle Hymn, Beyond the Horizon, Big\n                     Blow, Black Empire, Both Your Houses, Children's\n                     Autum Festival, Class of '29, Cradle Will Rock,\n                     Dance of Death, The Devil Passes, Dr. Faustus,\n                     Emperor's New Clothes, Fantacy 1929, Frankie and\n                     Jonny, Fly Away Home, Green Grow the Lilacs, Hell\n                     Bent for Heaven, Help Yourself, Horse Eats Hat,\n                     How Long Brethren, Doris Humphrey-Charles Weidman\n                     Dance Program, It Can't Happen Here, Jonny\n                     Johnson, Judgement Day, Justice, Like Falling\n                     Leaves, The Lonely Man, Long Voyage Home, Madame\n                     X, The Man-The Tree, Merchant of Venice, The Milky\n                     Way, Night Must Fall, O Say Can You Sing, One\n                     Sunday Afternoon, One-Third of a Nation, Outward\n                     Bound, Pinocchio, Power, Prologue to Glory,\n                     Persuit of Happiness, Ready!Aim!Fire!, Redemption,\n                     Revolt of the Beavers, Sing for Your Supper, Six\n                     Characters in Search of an Author, Spirochete,\n                     Story of Ferdinand, Sun and I, Sun Rises in the\n                     West, Swing Parade, Taming of the Shrew, Theatre\n                     of the Southwest, Trojan Incident, Twelfth Night,\n                     Twilight of the Theatre, When Knighthood Was in\n                     Flower, Young Choreographers Laboratory, Young\n                     Tramps","by George H. Corey","by George H. Corey","by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play","by John Wiley; Suggested by a Story of Edgar\n                     Allen Poe's","by Virginia Yetes","by Thomas Hall-Rogers","by Thomas Hall-Rogers","A Peace Pageant for All Grades; The Catholic\n                     School Journal","by Alfred Kreymborg; A Mass Recital","by Langston Hughes; A One-Act Play of Negro\n                     Life","by Ben Heck and Eugene O'Heel; With a smirk at\n                     Irving Berlin and Moss Hart","by Porter Emerson Brown","by H. R. Hays","by Herb Meadow","by Herb Meadow; A Waterfront Tragedy; play\n                     reader reports","by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold","by Mary Dirnberger; Dramatized from the\n                     familiar fairy tale","by John W. Dunn; A play of early Oklahoma\n                     life","by Theodore Pratt; Dramatized from the Novel by\n                     Theodore Pratt","by Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy","by Christine Ames and Clarke Painter; A\n                     Drama","by Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen","by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford;\n                     A play of our time; Based on a story by Whittaker\n                     Chambers","by Geo. McEnlee","by German List Arzubide; Adapted from a story\n                     by Anton Chekhov; Translated by Angel Flores","by john Woodworth; A legend... about Belle\n                     Starr, Queen of the desperadoes","by John W. Dunn","by Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for\n                     Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw","by H. Jack Bates; A Negro Folk Play","by Rose Carlyn","by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings","by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings","by Paul Green; Music by Kurt Weill; A Legend of\n                     American Life","by A. Callen, M. Worthington, and I. Reuben","by Oliver Haserodt","by Marc Blitzstein","by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle","by John Hunter Booth; An American Chronicle","by Joaquin Miller","by Arnold Sundgaard; A History","by George Foss","by Grant Moss","by Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy","by Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living\n                     Newspaper Play","by Elizabeth McFadden","by Charlotte Kohler","by Arthur Arent; Th First \"Living Newspaper\";\n                     from Educational Theatre Journal, v. 10, # 1;\n                     Introduction by Dan Isaac","by Will T. Goodwin; Working Script","by Emmet Lavery; \"This book is a postscript to\n                     the history of Federal Theatre as recorded by\n                     Hallie Flanagan in Arena, published in December,\n                     1940 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. It\n                     carries on where Arena leaves off and should,\n                     consequently, be read as a companion volume to\n                     Mrs. Flanagan's book.\"","by Georgia Douglas Johnson","by Georgia Douglas Johnson","by Theodore Browne; Based on the Life and Times\n                     of Harriet Tubman","by Ridgely Torrence; A Play for the Negro\n                     Theatre","by Howard Koch; A Comedy of Recent Times","by Anna Friedman; A Roosevelt Play","by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries","by Abram Hill","by Paul Green","by Maria M. Coxe","by the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper","by the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper","by the Editorial Staff of the Living\n                     Newspaper","by Noah Elstein","by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis","by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis","by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis","by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the\n                     novel by Sinclair Lewis; #1 Script","by John McGee","by H. L. Fishel","by H. L. Fishel","by Frank B. Wells; Tracking Down a Negro\n                     Legend, a Saga","by Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy","by Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy","The Living Newspaper Presents","The Living Newspaper Presents","by T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale","by T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale","by George Sklar","by C. 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