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Federal Theatre Project collection

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Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library MS2FL

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

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Email: speccoll@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-2220

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Preferred citation:: Federal Theatre Project collection, C0002, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 185 Linear Feet 371 boxes
Creator:: Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
Abstract:: The Federal Theatre Project collection contains administrative records, play service and research records, library records, production records, and costumes created or collected by the Federal Theatre Project from 1935 to 1939. A few items in the collection were created before or after this time period but directly relate to the 1930s material. This collection consists of original materials with some duplicates and photocopies.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: Federal Theatre Project collection, C0002, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

Content Warning: Some materials contain racist language and slurs, including play titles.

The Federal Theatre Project collection contains administrative records, play service and research records, library records, production records, and costumes created or collected by the Federal Theatre Project from 1935 to 1939. A few items in the collection were created before or after this time period but directly relate to the 1930s material. This collection consists of original materials with some duplicates and photocopies.

Series 1 contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, inventories, reorganization plans, briefs, and speeches relating to the background organization, policies, services, and procedures of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). Publications featuring articles on productions and organizational activities such as Federal Theatre are included in this series. Personnel file information such as biographical and employee tests are also included, as is research studies of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Federal Art Project (FAP) and the Historical Records Survey (HRS). This series is arranged alphabetically.

Series 2 is titled Play Service and Research Records and comprises two subseries. Subseries 2.1 contains research on drama, theatre technique, and theatre operations. This subseries is arranged alphabetically. Subseries 2.2 is titled Play Reader Reports and contains thousands of reports completed by the Federal Theatre for possible production or inclusion in play lists. This subseries is loosely arranged alphabetically by play title. Some duplicate material.

Series 3 is titled Library Records and consists of three subseries: Playscripts, Radio scripts, and Play lists. Subseries 3.1 includes hundreds of playscripts from over 900 productions performed or considered for production from around the United States. Most of the scripts are in English but some are in Yiddish or Italian. Some duplicate material. Arranged alphabetically by title. Subseries 3.2 includes radio scripts. Series of shows include topics such as art, children's shows, mysteries, health, music, history, and science. Arranged alphabetically by series and single broadcast title. Subseries 3.3 consists of play lists. These lists were created to aid play selection among the various units of the Federal Theatre. Lists are arranged alphabetically by subject categories such as children's plays, historical drama, holidays, minstrel shows, operettas, puppet plays, and vaudeville.

Series 4 is titled Production Records and consists of three subseries: Production Title File, Playbills and Programs, and Music File. Subseries 4.1 includes memoranda, production bulletins, publicity, and reports relating to play productions. Each production bulletin contains some or all of the following: synopsis, director's report, set and costume designs, lighting scheme, blueprints, photographs, program, reviews, royalty information, and a script. Arranged alphabetically by title. Subseries 4.2 includes programs, heralds, handbills, and other announcements of FTP productions on different sized and colored paper. The first section of this subseries is arranged alphabetically by state in which the performance was produced and then it is arranged alphabetically by play title. The second section is arranged alphabetically by play title. There may be duplicates between the two arrangements. Subseries 4.3 includes manuscript scores and parts for multiple Federal Theatre productions. Resource material used for reference purposes for play productions and Federal Theatre units and regions throughout the United States consists of mostly printed music and is found under "miscellaneous". Chiefly arranged alphabetically by title and then according to standard orchestral instrument order. Some duplicates.

Series 5 is titled Costumes and includes two coats and two pairs of pants created and used by the Federal Theatre Project.

Series 1 contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, inventories, reorganization plans, briefs, and speeches relating to the background organization, policies, services, and procedures of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). Publications featuring articles on productions and organizational activities such as Federal Theatre are included in this series. Personnel file information such as biographical and employee tests are also included as is research studies of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Federal Art Project (FAP) and the Historical Records Survey (HRS). This series is arranged alphabetically.

Available in digital format.

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)

McMahon was the Regional Administrator of the WPA Art Project. This item was found with Library of Congress Federal Theatre Project materials but is not related to the FTP.

Includes: NCWC news service - Aims and achievements of drama groups discussed by speakers at conference (National Catholic Theater Conference); pages from "Highlights of the first production conference of the NYC unit of the FT"

Issues of New Theatre (1934-1936).

Oversize color reprint of article from Fortune

Subseries 2.1 contains research on drama, theatre technique, and theatre operations. This subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Contains blueprints and photographs of portable theatres

Subseries 2.2 contains thousands of reports completed by the Federal Theatre for possible production or inclusion in play lists. This subseries is loosely arranged alphabetically by play title.

Subseries 3.1 includes hundreds of playscripts from productions performed around the United States. Most of the scripts are in English but some are in Yiddish or Italian. Some duplicate material. Arranged alphabetically by title.

by John Wiley; based on an Edgar Allen Poe story (photocopy)

by Beth Brown

by Elmer L. Rice

by Francis Bosworth

by Buell R. Fuller

Director Georgia S. Fink

by Virginia Yetes (photocopy)

by Ruth Morris

by Gladys Unger and Walter Armitage

by David Arnold Balch

by William Mahl

by Eugene O'Neill

by Edmond Rostand

by Yasha Frank

director Georgia S. Fink

adapted by S.S. Weiss

adapted by Ralph Chesse

by Sidney Howard

by Eugene O'Neil

by Homer Little and Myla Jo Closser

by Hardie Albright

by Thomas Hall Rogers, photocopy from February 20, 1991

by Thomas Hall Rogers, 2 photocopies

by Thomas Hall Rogers

published in The Catholic School Journal

by Alfred Kreymborg; published in "How do you do sir? And other short plays", photocopy

by Edwin and Albert Barker

by Elmer L. Rice

by Talbot Jennings

by Mrs. Alexander Mathis

by Vera Smirnova

by Edwin Burke

by Louis Weitzenkorn

by George Bernard Shaw

by Langston Hughes; A One-Act Play of Negro Life, photocopy

by Eugene O'Neill

by Rose Franken

by St. John Ervine

by Elizabeth de Vautibault

by Rev. Henry N. Hudson

by Rudolph Wittenberg

by Laurance Moore

by Margaret Brooks and Constance Wyckoff

by George Bernard Shaw

by Martin Flavin

by Yale Dramatic Association

by Ben Heck and Eugene O'Heel; With a smirk at Irving Berlin and Moss Hart, photocopy

by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

by Mary Singer and Florence Zunser

by Lockhart North

by T. R. Arkell

by Owen Davis

by C. L. Anthony

by Clifford Odets

by Ruth Fenisong and Remo Bufano

by Lester Fuller, 2 copies, 1 of which is a photocopy

by Margaret Mayo

by Porter Emerson Brown

by H. R. Hays

by Padriac Colum

by Herb Meadow

by Herb Meadow, 2 photocopies

by Katharine Clugston

by Walter Hackett

by Maxwell Anderson

by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold, photocopy

by Michael Blankfort and Michael Gold

by Frederick Stowers

by Mary Dirnberger; Dramatized from the familiar fairy tale

Transcribed as played by the Vagabond Puppeteers Federal Theatre of Oklahoma

by Albert Powels

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

by Brian J. Byrne

by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly

by Aodh de Blacam

by Belmont Ashton

by Lawrence Houseman

by Walter Abbott

by Anonymous

by Eugene O'Neill

by John W. Dunn; A play of early Oklahoma life

by William Beyer

by Theodore Pratt, photocopy

by Theodore Pratt; Dramatized from the Novel by Theodore Pratt

by Samuel Sayer

by Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy, photocopy

by Theodore Ward; A Negro Tragedy

Synopsis and production notes by Betty Kessler Lyman, director, Children's Federal Theatre

by Charles M. Barras

by Seymour G. Link

by Martin Flavin

by Maurice Maeterlinck

by Georgia Douglas Johnson, photocopy

by Ruth Fenisong

photocopy

by Maxwell Anderson

by Eugene O'Neill

by Bella and Samuel Spewaok

by Robin Taylor

Revision by Florence Elberta Barns

by Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen, photocopy

by Ruth Comfort Mitchel and Alfred Allen

by Will Cotton

by Robert Hare Powel

by Emmet Lavery

by Martin Flavin

by Ruth Fenisong

by Frank Wilson

by Emmet Lavery

by Miss Mabel Osborne

by Emma Ehrlich Levinger

by Irwin Shaw

by Beth Brown and Gilbert Laurence

by Leopold L. Atlas

Original by George Gill and Harold Weinstock and three revised editions by Arthur Vogel and Joseph Liss

by Grace Howard

by George Bernard Shaw

by Frank L. Moss and Richard Dana

by Arnold Zweig

by Robert Peele Noble

by Hallie Flanagan and Margaret Ellen Clifford; A play of our time; Based on a story by Whittaker Chambers, photocopy

by George Bernard Shaw

by Carl Glick

by Arthur Goodrich and Rose A. Palmer

by George Bernard Shaw

by Robt. A. Bromley (revised edition)

by Zelma Bruce Tiden

by Peretz Hirshbein

by Reginald Le Borg and Theo Dierks

by Estelle L. Silverman

by Jules Renard

by Rollo Wayne

by George McEnlee, photocopy

by George McEnlee

by H. Leivick

by Harold H. Clarke and Maxwell Nurnberg

by Harold H. Clarke and Maxwell Nurnberg (revised)

by German List Arzubide; Adapted from a story by Anton Chekhov; Translated by Angel Flores, photocopy

by A. Barto

by James Parish

by Y. L. Peretz

by John Woodworth, photocopy

by John Woodworth

by Ruth Fenisong

by John W. Dunn, photocopy

by John W. Dunn

by Stanislaus Stange

by sixth grade class under the direction of Mrs. Eleanor Holston Brainard in New Jersey

by Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw, photocopy

by Charles Dickens; Dialogue arranged for Marionetts and Hand Puppets by Alma M. Shaw

Hedley Gordon Graham

by Essex Dane

by George Huntington Clark

by H. Jack Bates; A Negro Folk Play, photocopy

by Ruth Welty and Gene Renouf

by Rose Carlyn, photocopy

Three by Rose Carlyn; Three by Fannie Engle

by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings

by Gilbert Lennox

by Paul Vincent Carroll

by Noel Harris Houston

by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries

by Paul Green; Music by Kurt Weill; A Legend of American Life, photocopy

by Rudolph Fisher, photocopy

by A. Callen, M. Worthington, and I. Reuben, photocopy

by Oliver Haserodt, photocopy

by Oliver Haserodt

by Royall Tyler

by M. Manisoff

by a seventh grade in Louisville, Kentucky

by Ramon de la Cruz, translated and adapted by Angel Flores and Joseph Liss

by Elmer Rice

by Marc Blitzstein, 2 photocopies

by Marc Blitzstein

by John H. Floyd

by members of the Play Bureau of the Southwest

by Betty Lessler Lyman

by John Hunter Booth

by John Hunter Booth, photocopy

by John Hunter Booth

by Historical Project, Federal Writers Project of Minnesota, Dr. Mable Ulrich director

by W. S. Gilbert

by Charles Dickens adapted by Gilmor Brown

Marionette Division, Buffalo, N.Y.

by Edgar Wallace

by James Stephens

by Walt Anderson

by A. Barto

by Laurette MacDuffie

by Anna Best Joder

by Elizabeth Leigh Vaughan

by W. H. Auden

by Joaquin Miller, photocopy

by Joaquin Miller

by Ruby Lorraine Radford

by S. Ansky

by L. W. Barrus

by George Foss, photocopy

by George Foss

by Grant Moss

by George W. Cronyn

by Rose Carlyn

by J. C. Furnes

by Henning Berger, translated from the original Swedish and adapted for the American stage by Frank Allen

by Eugene O'Neill

by Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy, photocopy

by Benn W. Levy; A Religious Comedy

by George Bernard Shaw

by Elmer Rice

by Eugene O'Neill

by Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living Newspaper Play, photocopy

by Don Farran and Ruth Stewart; A Living Newspaper Play

by Andrew Barton

by Merrill Denison

by Christopher Marlowe, arranged for marionettes by Robert Larson

by Twort (?) Gilbert and Edward Rosen

by Christopher Marlowe

by Moliere

by Jules Romans, English version by Harley Granville-Barker

by Minnie H. Niemier

by Lope de Vega

by Harlan E. Glazier

by David Pinski

by Fred Ballard

by Jules Romaine

For the Marionette Theatre by Robert Larson

by Elizabeth McFadden

by Charlotte Kohler, photocopy

by Joan and Michale A. Slane

by Carl Glick

by Rosa Carlyn

published by the National Tuberculosis Association

by Eugene O'Neill

by W. H. Smith

by Luis Quinones de Benavente

by Emily Percy Denison

by S. Ansky

by Arthur Goodman

by Elise Jerard

by Samuel Shipman and John B. Hymer

by Ossip Dymow

by Jack Larric

by Peretz Hirshbein

by Charlotte Charpenning

by Joseph Liss

by Paul Green

by C. C. Parsons

by Henrik Ibsen

by Sean O'Casey

by Demetre Bohris

by John Galsworthy

by Arthur Arent, photocopy

by Arthur Arent; The First "Living Newspaper"; from Educational Theatre Journal, v. 10, # 1, March 1968; Introduction by Dan Isaac, photocopy

by Arthur Arent, photocopy received June 11, 1991

by Kjeld Abell

by Paul Lawrence Dunbar (adaptation)

by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

by Sylvia Regan

by G. J. Graves

by Will T. Goodwin; Working Script

by Emmet Lavery

by Victor Wolfson

by Bradbury Foote

by Cervantes

by Doris Troutman

by Luis Quinones de Benavente

adapted by Maurice Jagendorf

by Irving P. Kapner

by Frank B. Elser and Marc Connelly

by Brian Doherty

by Lope de Vega

by Maxwell Anderson

by H. A. Archibald

by Munro Leaf

by Paul Green

by Rachel Lyman Field

by Weldon Stone

by John Van Antwerp

by A. Barto

by Eugene O'Neill

by Frank Craven

by George H. Corey, photocopy

by George H. Corey

by E. and P. Green

by Emmet Lavery; "This book is a postscript to the history of Federal Theatre as recorded by Hallie Flanagan in Arena, published in December, 1940 by Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York. It carries on where Arena leaves off and should, consequently, be read as a companion volume to Mrs. Flanagan's book."

by Oscar Saul and Louis Lantz

by Pearl S. Buck

A play for boys and girls with radio participation, experiment number 1 by Berthold Brecht

by John W. Dunn

by Graham Rawson

by Gene Stone and Jack Rosenblum

by Phile Higley

by Myrtle L. Barger

by E. P. Conkle

by Harry B. Smith

by Ada Sterling

by Eleanor Garland

by Eugene O'Neill

by Harry Sackler

by Georgia Douglas Johnson, photocopy

by Georgia Douglas Johnson

by Harriet Wedgwood, a health play for children, reprinted from Hygeia

by Samuel Shipman and Aaron Hoffman

by B. R. Fuller

by Leopold L. Atlas

by Beverly Hamer in the Carolina Play Book volume X, number 3

by William Stevenson

by B. K. Simkhovitch

by Felix Doherty

by Nando Vitali

by Ben Russak

by Charles Flato and Jack Bates. Production of the ERA Civic Theater of Boston.

by Edward Lynn

by Anita Loos and John Emerson

by Isidore Reuben

by Philo Higley

by Arnold Ridley

by Buell R. Fuller

by Aldous Huxley

photocopy

by Ferenc Molnar

by Theodore Browne, based on the life and times of Harriet Tubman, a play in two acts, photocopy

adapted and translated by Lola Sachs and Klara Deppe from German of Julius Hay

by Helen Rovene Williams and George Brendan Dowell

by Jacob Gordon

by J. J. Robbins

by Philip Stevenson

by Leon Crozier

by Paul Armstrong and Rex Beach

by Paul Smith

by Louise Franklin Bache

by Lewis Beach

by Kermit Love

by Rose Carlyn

by Ridgely Torrence; A Play for the Negro Theatre, photocopy

by Howard Koch; A Comedy of Recent Times, photocopy

by Irving P. Kapner, Joseph Liss, Rose Siegel

by Warwick F. Williams

by William R. Randall

by Anna Friedman; A Roosevelt Play, photocopy

by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries, photocopy

by Gertrude Worthington Jeffries

by F. L. Russell

by George Bernard Shaw

by Lynn Riggs

by Bernard Szold and E. P. O'Donnell

by Marc Connelly

adapted by Stephen Weiss

by William J. Langman, S. J.

by Eugene O'Neill

by William Du Bois

by Noah Elstein

by Grace Dorcas Ruthenberg

by Harlan E. Glazier

by Yasha Frank

by Thornton Wilder

by Wilfrido Ma Guerrero

by Donald Davis and Samuel Ornitz

by Joseph Lehmann

by Charles Prentiss

by Julius Hay

by Arthur Kober

by Elizabeth Jane Astley

by Philip Atlee and Edmund Van Zandt

by David Belasco

by George Bernard Shaw

by Albert Bein

by Helen Clare Nelson

by Barry Conners

by Abram Hill, photocopy

by Margaret Sperry

by Paul Vulpius

by Theresa Helburn

adapted and translated by Donald Fay Robinson

adapted by Kent Pease Hamdent High School, Hamdent, Connecticut

by Maxwell Anderson

by Mary B. Stafford

by Harlan E. Glazier

by Lee Freeson

by Howard Koch and Ben Russak

by Gregorio Martinez Sierra

by John Wiley

by Harold Courlander

by Sally Coulter

by Herb Meadow

by Dorothy Hailpern

by Michael Swift

by Philip Barry

by John Alan Haughton

by Marion Holbrook

by Joseph Liss

by Paul Green

by Sara E. Bower

by Bertram M. Gross

by Alan Sidney

by Edith Kunz

by The Historical Project, Federal Writers Project of Minnesota

by Paul Green

by William Beyer

by Margaret MacNamera

by Edwin Burke

by Rufus King and Milton Lazarus

by Perez Hirschbaum

by Maria M. Coxe, photocopy

by Maria M. Coxe

by Paul Green

by Eugene O'Neill

by Bertolt Brecht

by the Editorial Staff of the Living Newspaper, photocopy

by the Editorial Staff of the Living Newspaper

by Maurice Stoller

by Norman Roston

by Noah Elstein, photocopy

by Noah Elstein

by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis, photocopy

by John C. Moffitt and Sinclair Lewis; From the novel by Sinclair Lewis

by Raymond Reeves, photocopy

by Raymond Reeves

by St. John G. Ervine

by John McGee

adapted by Federal Theatre Project Los Angeles, California

by H. L. Fishel, photocopy

by H. L. Fishel

by Martha Hodgson Ellis

by David Schrieber

by St. John G. Ervine

by Frank B. Wells; Tracking Down a Negro Legend, a Saga, photocopy

by Frank B. Wells; Tracking Down a Negro Legend, a Saga

by Paul Green

by Luidmilla Vepritskaya

by Alma Shaw

by R. G. Sheriff

by Warren Coleman; A Negro Comedy, 2 photocopies

Elmer Rice

by Shakespeare

by Thomas A. Langan

by Emmet Lavery

by Ruth Fenisong

by J. C. Nugent and Elliott Nugent

by Edgar Slaughter

The Living Newspaper Presents

by James Bridie

by Catherine Reighard

by Max M. Dill

by Don Mullally

by David Pinski

by T. C. Robinson and Rena M. Vale, photocopy

by Lawrence J. Bernard

by Frances Nimmo Greene and Robert Harvey Greene

by George Scudder

by Irving Kaye Davis

by James Bridie

by Sidney Howard

by Harry King Tootle

by William Beyer

by Oliver La Farge

by V. Beldon?

by Harry King Tootle

by Ernest Chamberlain

by Elmer Rice

by Moliere

by A. Barto

by Maurice Stoller

by Charlotte Chorpenning

by Bertram Robinson

photocopy

by Edward Hopter

by George Sklar

by Gilbert Laurence

by Giuseppe Giacosa

by Marion Flexner and Dorothy Park Clark

by Franz Molnar

by Alma Shaw

by C. B. Chorpenning, photocopy

by C. B. Chorpenning

by Molka Reich of Miami Florida Project

translated from Flemish by Jacob Borut and Lola Sachs

by Marc Connelly

by Alexei Tolstoi

by Eleanor Glendower Griffith

by Lawrence and Sylvia Martin, photocopy

by Howard Koch

by Thornton Wilder

by Eugene O'Neill

by Charles George

by T. C. Upham

by Isidore Reuben

by Charles Alan

by Thornton Wilder

by John Galsworthy

by Maud Wood Park, photocopy

by Maud Wood Park

by Maud Wood Park revised by Robert Finch

by Theodore Browne; An "African Version", photocopy

by Clarence H. Talbot

reprinted from the "Theatre Arts Monthy" for December 1927, included in the Harvard dramatic club miracle plays

by William Shakespeare; arranged and staged by Orson Welles; Complete Working Script, photocopy of original from April 14, 1936

by William Shakespeare; adaptation for the colored unit, opened on April 14, 1936 at Lafayette Theatre, photocopy

by William Shakespeare; adaptation for the colored unit

by William Blake

by Victoria Heindel

by Lee Freeson

by Louis Golding and A. R. Rawlinson

by Bernard Shaw

by Alfred Sutro

by John Woodworth

by Mr. Beete

by Hollister Noble and Edward R. Sammis

by Paul Green

by Anatole France

by Jules Eckert Goodman and Eckert Goodman

by Earnest Andai and Lajos Balint

by Federal Theatres, Los Angeles, California

by Anton Chekhov

by Rena B. Johnson

by Tom Taylor and Charles Reade

by Mabel DeVries Tanner

photocopy

by John Le Touche

by Brandon Tynan

by Victor Victor

by William Shakespeare

by H. Richard Oliver and John McCain Rimassa

by William Shakespeare

by Rose Dubin

by Ruth Fenisong and Samuel Sayer

By W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Published by Arthur W. Tams Music Library, Inc. Incomplete script with some handwritten notations.

by W. S. Gilbert; The Town of Titifu, photocopy

by W. S. Gilbert; The Town of Titifu

by Plautus; translated by Clarence P. Bill, photocopy

photocopy

by Lynn Root and Harry Clork

by Wallace L. Waite

by B. R. Fuller

by Dee Burque

by Hans Chlumberg, photocopy

by Nahum Brind

by John Crosby

Page has dialogue from three different bald headed men, a character called Cadwallader is named, all, and a chorus.

by John Charles Brownell

by E. B. Ginty

by Louise Franklin Bache

by Rose Franken and Jane Lewin

by Holger Cahill

by Michael Gold

by J. R. Perkins

by Emmet Lavery

by Denis Johnston

by Eugene O'Neill

by Richard Maibaum

by Samuel French

by Willard Weiner

by Joseph Liss

by Ruth Fenisong

by Louise Franklin Bache

by Ramon Romero, photocopy

by Ramon Romero

by T. S. Eliot

by Irving P. Kapner

by Buell R. Fuller

by Muriel Fox, Marie Reed, Suzette Telenga, and Jane Whitbread; A Musical Satire, photocopy

by Cecil E. Reynolds

by Rose Carlyn

from volume of Harvard Dramatic Club Miracle Plays edited by Donald Fay Robinson

by Theodore Brown; Based on the Legend of John Henry, photocopy

by Theodore Brown; Based on the Legend of John Henry

by Nathalie Satz and Sergei Rosaanov

by Anemone Pemberton

photocopy

by Maxwell Anderson

by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play, photocopy

by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper Play

by students of Commonwealth College; Commonwealth College Fortnightly, photocopy

by Eleanor Flexner

by Arthur Strawn and Henry Rosendahl

by Talbot Jennings

by Ernest Toller

by Lilian Gill

by Jerome Geneson

by George Smedley Smith and Bernard Szold

by Ethel Watts Mumford and Lily Strickland

by Elmer Rice

by Nathan Spiegel

by Joseph Hergesheimer

by Sid Kuller and Ray Golden

by Harold Igo, photocopy

by Harold Igo

by Bernard Shaw

by James Knox Millen

by Denman Thompson

adapted for marionettes by Ruth Fenisong and Samuel Sayer

by Benjamin M. Kaye

by Bernard Shaw

by Marian Katherine Brown

by Seyril Schochen

a dramatization by Lulie Hard McKinley of the novel by Robert Nathan

by Kenneth Webb

by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper about Housing, Philadelphia version, photocopy

by Arthur Arent; A Living Newspaper about Housing

dramatized from L. Feuchtwanger's novel by Clayton Fritchi

by Remo Bufano

by Irvin Wilson Baker

by Harry Hamilton

by Lillian Day and Lyon Mearson

by Irving P. Kapner

by John Mason Brown

by Grace H. Swift, photocopy

by Catherine F. Reighard

by Gladys E. Murray

by Hughes Allison, photocopy

by Faye L. Tornquist

by Irving De W. Talmadge

by Arthur Goodman

by Aristophanes

by Howard J. Green and Raymond Leslie Goldman

by Lope de Vega

translation by Joan Vanderpool

by Marion Holbrook

by Martha B. King

by Robert Sherwood

by Harlan E. Glazier

by members of the Marionette Group Federal Theatre Group Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

by Alan Sidney

after the novel by Charles Dickens, dramatized by Natalie Wengstern, translated from the Russian by Rose Inget

adapted by Federal Theatre Project, Omaha, Nebraska

by Sarah Neuman

a Korean Cinderella dramatized by Bernice McQuilkin (Gary, Indiana, Children's Theatre, F.T.P.) from a group of Korean Tales

adapted by Yasha Frank, photocopy

adapted by Yasha Frank

by Frank Kintrea

by Adelaide C. Rowell

by Phil Cook and McElbert Moore

by Ben Bengal

by A. Korneichuk

by J. Liss

by Margaret Naumberg

by Rose Carlyn

by Alvin Kerr

by George Kelly

by Robert Russell, photocopy

by Robert Russell

by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward

Living Newspaper, photocopy

Living Newspaper

by Karel Capek

by Irving P. Kapner

Content warning: racist language/slur.

Full title: Prancing Nigger. By E. England suggested from the novel by Ronald Firbank of the same name

Content warning: racist language/slur.

Full title: Prancing Nigger.

by Robert Whitehand, photocopy

by Robert Whitehand

by Albert Maltz; Anti-Fascist Play, photocopy

by Alfred Kreymborg

by John Howard Lawson, photocopy

by John Howard Lawson

by John Garrett Underhill

by Freidrich Wolf, photocopy

by Friedrich Wolf

by E. P. Conkle

by Claudia Hatch, photocopy

by Eldridge Lindsay

by Thornton Wilder

by Lawrence Langner and Armina Marshall Langner

by Leonora Kaghan and Anita Phillips

by Tonia Bakina

by Karel Capek

by Ferdinand Bruckner

by Bradbury Foote

by Edward Stirling, Esq.

by Fred Ballard

by Blanding Sloan

by Gene Stone and Jack Robinson

by L. Resnick

by Robert Sturgis, photocopy

by Fritz Karinthy

by P. Washington Porter; A Tragedy of Negro Life, photocopy

by P. Washington Porter; A Tragedy of Negro Life

by Oscar Saul and Lou Lantz, photocopy

by Oscar Saul and Lou Lantz

by Federal Theater Project, Los Angeles

by Frances Montgomery

by Jan Klokog

as produced by the Federal Theater Project at Omaha, Nebraska

adapted for Buffalo Historical Marionette Theatre

by Lee Freeson

photocopy

by Richard Oliver; A Living Newspaper Play, photocopy

by Charles Vildrac

Dramatization of a food talk written by Misses McKeown, Spencer, and Sweet. Arranged by Elizabeth Kip

by Lynn Riggs

by Joseph Liss

by John W. Dunn, (title on cover reads "Socko, Jocko, Kicko")

by John W. Dunn

by Edith Grossberg Whitesell

by Margaret Lesueur and Momodu Johnson; a Drama of Native Africa, photocopy

by Margaret Lesueur and Momodu Johnson; a Drama of Native Africa

by Hassard Short and Maurice Henniquin

by Hall Johnson, photocopy

by Hall Johnson

Living Newspaper, photocopy

by Charles Vildrac

by Francisco Rodrigo

by Leonide Andreyeff

by A. Barto

by Lope de Vega

by Countee Cullen and Arna Bontemps, photocopy

by Countee Cullen and Arna Bontemps

by Upton Sinclair; A Little Play for the White Collar Folks,

by Robert A Bromley and Al Carthe

by Paul Green

by Maxwell Anderson

by Micha Hawkins

The Adventures of a Bunny

by Frances Lester Warner

by Daniel Reed from Julia Peterkin's Pulitzer Prize Novel

by Christobel Morley Cordell, photocopy

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

by Maxwell Anderson

by Harold Whitehall

by Phyllis Clare Flannery; A Farce Satire, photocopy

by George Savage, Dramatist Guild Contest Play #60, photocopy

by George Savage, photocopy

by George Savage, Dramatist Guild Contest Play #60

by George Savage, English Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

by George Savage

by Elmer Rice

by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Keene Wallis

by Leonard J. Tyle

by William Evans

by Halsey Raines and Rayness Copeland, compiled and reconstructed in collaboration with Mr. Hyman Adler

by R. Edgar Moore

by Florence Clothier; A Play of the Labrador Coast, photocopy

by Oliver Goldsmith; The Mistakes of a Night, photocopy

compiled from Old English nativity plays by Robert Larson

by Ruth Fenisong and Samuel Sayer

by Andrews and Anne Wilson Peabody

by George Kelly, version used by Negro Theatre Unit, New York City

by George Kelly

by Morgan Burke

by Robert K. Ryland

photocopy

by Howard Koch

by Sholem Ash

by Isabel Anderson (Mrs. Larz Anderson)

by Fall River, photocopy

by F. S. Hill

by Miles Malleson

by Janet Hartman and Hallie Flanagan, photocopy

by Buell R. Fuller and Stephen Weiss

by Sedarmee Club Madison House

by Jo Basshe, photocopy

by Robert A. Bromley and Al Carthe

by Betty Smith

by Joseph Lawrence, photocopy

by Joseph Lawrence

by H. Leivick

an ancient Japanese farce translated by Michio Itow and Louis V. Ledoux

by Grace Welsh Lutgen, photocopy

by J. S. Coppard

by B. R. Fuller

photocopy

by Eugene Deaderick, Cyrilla P. Lindner, Max Mansbach, Lorin Raker; A Living Newspaper, photocopy

three copies, acting edition by Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano published by Samuel French, Inc.

by Arnold Sundgaard, photocopy

by Arnold Sundgaard

by James P. Judge

by Valentine Katayev (Kataev)

by Helen Fitzgerald

by Victor Victor

by Robert Ardrey; A Comedy, photocopy

by Robert Ardrey; A Comedy

by Ward Courtney; a Living Newspaper Play, photocopy

by Otis Chatfield-Taylor, photocopy

by Charles Irving

photocopy

by Harold Robbins

by Elmer Rice

by Paul Peters and George Sklar

by Robert T. Colwell and Robert A. Simon

by Elmer Rice

by Paul Tripp

by Mary Manning

by Barrie and Leonia Stavis

by Henry C. Haskell

by Theodore Pezman and Donald Murray

by Theodore Pezman and Donald Murray, photocopy

by Lula Vollmer

by Norman Foster and Harry Hamilton

by Georgie Douglass Johnson

by George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell

by C. Liberman

by August Strindberg

photocopy

Federal Theatre of Oklahoma

by Maurice Stoller

by Katharine Clugston

by David Pinski, photocopy

by David Pinski

by David Pinsky

by William Shakespeare

by David Lano

Vagabond Puppeteers for the Federal Theatre of Oklahoma

by Shotwell Callvert, photocopy

by William dorsey Blake; A Living Newspaper Play, photocopy

by Anthony Armstrong

by Charles H. Hoyt

by Florine Schwartz; A Play for Children, photocopy

by Anna M. Lutkenhaus, photocopy

by Arthur A. Miller, photocopy

by Ivan Rowan and Martin Delman

by Raymond Bond

by William Kozlenko

by Converse Tyler

by Knox Herold

by Betty Smith

by Yury Olesha

by Gertrude Tonkonogy, photocopy

by Marita Rosler

by Myrtly Mary Moss and Burke Ormsby; A play on deforestation and reforestation, first version, Seattle, photocopy

by Marie Baume from the novel by Leane Zugsmith; photocopy

by Marie Baume from the novel by Leane Zugsmith

by William Shakespeare

by James Bridie

by Samuel Sayer

by Robert Wallsten

by Isabel Barber; A dramatist guild contest play #552

by Isabel Barber

by John Broome, photocopy

by John Broome

by Ruth Fenisong

by Robinson Jeffers; A Play in Poetic Form, photocopy

by Robinson Jeffers; A Play in Poetic Form

by George Murray and David Pelts; A Living Newspaper on Pensions; photocopy

by Philip Stevenson

by Rose Carlyn

by Jules Eckert Goodman, photocopy

by Jules Eckert Goodman

by Remo Bufano

by Stephen Spender

by Hughes Allison, photocopy

by Hughes Allison

by Ward Courtney; The Moon is Steel; Carnival for Bolt; North

by Ward Courtney; The Moon is Steel; Carnival for Bolt; North, photocopy

written by the editorial staff of the Living Newspaper under the supervision of Arthur Arent, photocopy

written by the editorial staff of the Living Newspaper under the supervision of Arthur Arent

reissued, written by the editorial staff of the Living Newspaper Federal Theatre Project for New York City

Based on Homer and Euripides, includes photocopied program, photocopy

Based on Trojan Women of Euripides

by Philip H. Davis

translated by Edith Hamilton

by Eleanor Phelps, photocopy

by Langston Hughes, photocopy

by Langston Hughes

by Harry Sackler

Content Warning: racist language/slurs in text. By J. A. Smith and P. Morell, a folk drama of the Florida Pine woods, photocopy.

by J. M. Barrie

by McElbert Moore

by H. R. Lenormand

by Gene Stone and Jack Robinson

by A. Barto

by E. P. Conkle

by Whitfield Cook, photocopy

by Whitfield Cook

by Robert Larson

Jacksonville, Florida script 1939, photocopy

by Anton Chekhov

by Augustin Daly

by Bernice McQuilken

by Gene Buck

by Helen Fitzgerald

by Mrs. William Hyman

by Charles Allen Smart

by Vincent Moran

by Karl Gutzkov

by Eden White; A Rollicking Comedy

edited by Alma M. Shaw; collection of five marionette plays: Chisba Ohoyo, K. P. the Tenderfoot, Socko-Jocko-Kicko, Flopsy-Topsy-Bowser, Swing Low

by Ruth Fenisong

by Marietta Fouche

by A. E. Thomas and Jack Haussmann

by I. L. Peretz

by John F. Burns

by Stefan Zweig

photocopy

Living Newspaper

by Caroline C. Lovell

by William C. de Mille

by Percy Mackaye

by William L. Price

by Frances Gordon Strunsky

by Helen Gholson Kittredge

by Irving R. Kapner

translated from the Yiddish by Julius Schmerler and Isidore Edelman, photocopy

by Elmer Rice, photocopy

by Elmer Rice

by Gerhart Hauptmann

by Eugene O'Neill

translated from the Russian by Aaron Chorover

by W. Alan Coutts

by Rose Carlyn

by Ten Orcross

by George H. Broadhurst

by Philip Stevenson

by Charles Zerner and Ben S. Gross

by Albert Hackett

by J. Sackville Martin and Carl E. Freybe

by Katherine Peabody Gurling

by A. Barto

by John Bowaldeth

by Lelia May Smith

by Harry B. Smith

by Converse Tyler

by Lucien Chantel

by John Emerson and Anita Loos

by Harlan E. Glazier

by Paul Green

by Joseph Liss

by Clemence Dane, photocopy

by David Pay Robinson

by Marcus L. Bach

by Marcus L. Bach (revised Chicago version)

by Kenneth White

by Rae Abraham

by Allan Davis

by Romain Rolland

by Samuel Jesse Warshawsky, photocopy

by Buell R. Fuller

by Virgil L. Baker

by Charles Frederic Nirdlinger

by Charles Bruce Millholland

by Edward Lynn

by Josef and Karel Capek

by Molly Day Thacher, photocopy

by Tom Jewett

by Chase Varney

by Jakob Loewenberg

by Peter Arnow

by Mark Reed

by Ulysses S. Elam

by Bernard Shaw

by Rose Carlyn

by Margaret Knox and Anna M. Lufkenhaus

by Dorothy L. Sayers

by M. Daniel

Subseries 3.2 includes radio scripts. Series of shows include topics such as art, children's shows, mysteries, health, music, history, and science. Arranged alphabetically by series and single broadcast title.

by Howard Warwick

by Gene Stafford

photocopy

by Arthur McCaffery

by Charles Brownell

by Friedrich Wolfe

by Howard Koch

by Leo Fontaine

two versions, one with accompanying letter from Charles Hopkins to George Gerwing requesting "clearance for New York State of the radio script 'Crime Prevention', episode 4"

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Barrie Williams

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Leo Fontaine

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Barrie Williams

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Leo Fontaine

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Barrie Williams

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Leo Fontaine

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Barrie Williams, photocopy and original

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Barrie Williams

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Leo Fontaine

by William MacHarg, dramatized by Harold Hartogensis

by Boyd

by Philip Massinger, adapted by Leah Jonas

by Ben Jonson, adapted by Leah Jonas

by Leo Fontaine

by Sergei Prokofiev, 5 front pages and 2 full copies

by Ludwig van Beethoven, interpreted in an original dramatization by Cecil Stevenson

by Richard Wright

by Pauline Simmons

by Marshall Davidson

by Martha Foley

by Dr. Charles Russell

by A. Hyatt Mayor

by David Canfield

by Morris Watson

interview with Martha Graham and Leah Plotkin

interview with Pietro di Donato and Leah Plotkin

interview with Estelle Liebling and Leah Plotkin

by Howard Koch adapted by Lawrence Levey (photocopy and original)

by Barrie and Leona Stavis, adapted by Edward Morton

by Theodore Pezman and Donald Murray, adapted by Edward Morton

by Carl Glick, adapted by Philip Ansel Roll

photocopy

by Karl Barron

by Phyllis Frederic

adapted by Cecil Stevenson

adapted by Charles Crumpton

by Michael Davidson

by Matty Cohen and B. F. Kamsler

by Edward H. Smith

by Lewis W. Moyer

by Joseph W. Miller

both by Jeanette Despres

by Edward H. Smith

by Georgia Fawcett, first 25 pages

both by Jeanette Despres

by Michael Davidson

by unknown; by Harry Goldsmith

by John T. Mole

by Gertrude Onnen and Phyllis Frederic; by Jeanette Despres

by Phyllis Frederic

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Harry Goldsmith, photocopy

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Donald Macfarlane, photocopy

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Donald Macfarlane

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Harry Goldsmith, photocopy

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Donald Macfarlane

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by Donald Macfarlane, photocopy

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Charles Crumpton, photocopy

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Lewis Meyer

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Georgia Fawcett, photocopy

by Clifford Odets, adapted by Maurice Kurtz

by Jules Verne, adapted by Lewis W. Moyer

by Jules Verne, adapted by W. M. Sutton

by Jules Verne, adapted by George Thorp

by Harold Parke Godwin; by Frederick Prokosch

by Arthur McCaffery, incomplete copy - first 13 pages

by Michael Davidson

by Paul de Kruif

by Lawrence Bearson; by Leo Fontaine

by T. O. Day

by Maxine Schiel, photocopy

by John Fleming, photocopy

by Jack Barefield, photocopy

by Georgia Backus, photocopy

by Maxine Schiel, photocopy

by Ben Hawthorne, photocopy

by John Fleming, photocopy

by Arthur Arendt

by David Lesan

by William N. Robson

dramatization by Robert Lewis Shayon

by Edward Solomon

by Bucalossi

by Michael William Balfe

by Robert Planquette; by F. C. Burnand and Sir Arthur Sullivan

by Charles Lecocq

by Sidney Jones

by Charles Lecocq

by Karl W. Schulz

by W. Vincent Wallace

by Edmond Audran

by Robert Planquette

by Edmond Audran

by Robert Planquette

by Lajos Serly

by Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan

by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Donald Macfarlane, photocopy

by Oscar Wilde, adapted and directed by Donald MacFarlane, photocopy

by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Lews W. Moyer, photocopy

by Oscar Wilde, adapted by Charles Crumpton

by Rose Albert Porter

by George J. Thorp

by Sylvia Altman

by Sylvia Altman and Jeanette Gussin

by Charles Dickens adapted by Cecil Stevenson

by Victor E. Smith; by Joel Hammil

by Will Glickman

by Phyllis Frederic

by Lewis W. Moyer; by W. M. Sutton

by John I. Mole

by Victor E. Smith

by Maxwell Wolodin; by Edward H. Smith

by Victor E. Smith; by John I. Mole

by Lewis W. Moyer; by Michael Davidson

by Will Glickman

by Phyllis Frederic

by Lee Fontainbleu; by Laurence U. Shloss

by Edward H. Smith

by Georgia Fawcett

by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Harry Goldsmith; by Carlo Goldoni

by John I. Mole

by Pietro di Donato, adapted by Lawrence Bearson; by Nelson S. Bond, adapted by Will Glickman

By Herbert Lewis; by Bob Frank

by Bob Frank

by Carlo Goldoni, adapted by Ysobel Martin; by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Lewis Moyer

by Paul Vulpius, adapted by Barry Williams

by Captain Frederick Marryat, adapted by Lewis Moyer; by Paul Vulpius, adapted by Barry Williams

by Jacland Marmur, adapted by Victor E. Smith; by Lionel Wiggam, adapted by Margorie Hutton

by George Harmon Coxe, adapted by Victor E. Smith

by George Harmon Coxe, adapted by Victor E. Smith; by Laura Z. Hobson, adapted by Lawrence Bearson

by Laura Z. Hobson, adapted by Lawrence Bearson

by Jerome Beatty, adapted by Victor E. Smith

by Manuel Komroff, adapted by Joel Hammil

by Andreas Latzko, adapted by Lawrence Menkin and Evan Roberts

by George Rolland

by Barrie Williams; by Brian J. Byrne

by Dean Charel

by Frank Burrill

by Dean Charel

by Victor E. Smith

by Herb Meadow; adaptation by Joel Hammil and Leo Fontaine

by A. L. Tyler

photocopy

by Hugh Lester

by Leo Fontaine

by Harold Hartogensis; by Phyllis Frederic

by Benet Costa, photocopy

by Jane Ashman; also includes Women as Homemakers first page

by Leo Fontaine, photocopy

Subseries 3.3 consists of play lists. These lists were created to aid play selection among the various units of the Federal Theatre. Lists are arranged alphabetically by subject categories such as children's plays, historical drama, holidays, minstrel shows, operettas, puppet plays, and vaudeville.

Subseries 4.1 includes memoranda, production bulletins, publicity, and reports relating to play productions. Each production bulletin contains some or all of the following: synopsis, director's report, set and costume designs, lighting scheme, blueprints, photographs, program, reviews, royalty information, and a script. Arranged alphabetically by title.

Proposed treatment for dramatization of the book Rebel, Priest, Prophet; background material; review by Samuel Kreiter; "Research for McGlynn play". Research by Edward Riley

Subseries 4.2 includes programs, heralds, handbills, and other announcements of FTP productions on different sized and colored paper. The first section of this subseries is arranged alphabetically by state in which the performance was produced and then it is arranged alphabetically by play title. The second section is arranged alphabetically by play title. There may be duplicates between the two arrangements.

American Holiday; Distant Drums; It Can't Happen Here; The Night of January 16th; Swamp Mud

The Cat and the Canary; Chalk Dust; Cradle Snatchers; The Enchanted April; Enter Madame; The Fightin' Fool; Habit; Journey's End; Kick In; Know Your Onions; Ladies of the Jury; Laff That Off; Murray Hill; Nice People; Octoroon; Old Autumn; Oliver Oliver; Outward Bound; The Pursuit of Happiness; Saturday's Children; So What; The Squall; The Telephone Exchange; This Thing Called Love; To The Ladies; Vaudeville Frolic; What Anne Brought Home

Accent on Youth; Ah, Wilderness!; The Alarm Clock; The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse; American Holidays; Androcles and the Lion; Another Language; A Bill of Divorcement; The Bird of Paradise; The Bishop Misbehaves; The Black Crook; Black Empire; Boy Meets Girl; Brothers; Captain Brassbound's Conversion; Class of '29; Ceasar and Cleopatra; The Devil Passes; Dracula; An Enemy of the People; Excerpts from the Plays of William Shakespeare; Everyman; Excursion

Festival of Modern Dance; The First Legion; God of Vengeance; Green Grow the Lilacs; Having Wonderful Time; Hell-Bent for Heaven; High Tor; I Want a Policeman; It Might Happen To You; It Can't Happen Here; John Henry; Johnny Johnson; Judgment Day; Lady of Letters; Laff That Off; Like Falling Leaves; Machine Age; Marionette Vaudeville; Mary Stuart; Mary's Other Husband; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Meteor; Miss Quis; Music in Fairyland

The Nativity; Night Must Fall; The Night of January 16th; The Nineth Guest; Noah; One Sunday Afternoon; Old Autumn; Oliver, Oliver; The People's Choice; Penny Wise; Petticoat Parade; Post Road; Professor Mamlock; Purple is as Purple Does; The Pursuit of Happiness; The Queen's Husband; Ready! Aim! Fire!; Revue of Reviews; Roaring Girl; Room Service; Run, Little Chillun; The Sap; The Ship; Souvenir du Bal Musette; Squaring the Circle

The Sun Rises in the West; The "Swing" Mikado; To the Ladies; The Treasure; Two-A-Day; The Weavers; What a Woman Wants; Will Shakespeare; Yankel Boyla

Class of '29; Follow the Parade; 7th Heaven; The Warrior's Husband; Yankel Boyla

Programs from "Folk plays of the Carolina playmakers"

The Adding Machine; Androcles and the Lion; The Animal Kingdom; Behold This Dreamer; Censored; Hell Bent for Heaven; If Ye Break Faith; Invitation to Murder; It Can't Happen Here; Lady of Letters; Night Must Fall; Post Road; The Warrior's Husband

Abu Hassan, The Princess and the Pea; Accent on Youth; Americana; Anna Christie; Barbara Frietchie; The Bluebird; Blind Alley; Cellini; Class of '29; Counsellor-At-Law; The Curtain Rises; The Dark Tower; The Devil Passes; The Devil of Pisa; Double Door; Early to Rise; The Emperor Jones; Fancy That; The Field God; The First Legion; Good-Bye Again; The Great Barrington; Haiti; Help Yourself; Hollywood Extra; The House of Fear

In Abraham's Bosom; In Praise of Husbands; It Can't Happen Here; Jericho; Just Like That; Laburnum Grove; Liliom; Macbeth; Mad Hopes; March Hares; Men Must Fight; Mississippi Rainbow; A Moral Entertainment; No More Frontier; No More Ladies; Noah; One-Third of a Nation; The Sabine Women; The Shannons of Broadway; She Passed Through Lorraine; The Solitaire Man; Snowdrop and the Seven Dwarfs; Spread Eagle; Tamed and How; The Tavern

Ten Minute Alibi; Tons of Money; The Trial of Mary Dugan; The Very Great Man; The Wasp's Nest; Whistling in the Dark; The Wisdom Tooth; The World We Live In; The Would-Be Gentleman; Wuthering Heights

The Girl of the Golden West; It Can't Happen Here; 16 Headline Acts of Vaudeville

Anna Christie; Boy Meets Girl; By Candlelight; Fly Away Home; The Last Enemy; Mary the Third; One More Spring

Hamlet; Hell's Holler Revue; It Can't Happen Here; Spirochete; Lightnin'; Street Scene; Triple A Plowed Under

The Deluge; It Can't Happen Here; Sis Hopkins; They Knew What They Wanted

Blind Alley; Brothers; It Can't Happen Here; Rachel's Man

One-Third of a Nation; Roll Sweet Chariot; Room Service

Big Vaudeville Musical Revue (79 copies from different performances around Maine)

Announcing Her Confession; Chalk Dust; A Christmas Carol; The Goose Hangs High; The Idiot; It Can't Happen Here; The Mad Hopes; Swanee Minstrels; Vaudeville; What Would You Do

It Can't Happen Here; Liliom; The Road to Rome

Ladies of the Jury

It Can't Happen Here

Vodvil Show (vaudeville)

It Can't Happen Here

Programs: Adalante; Americanism and National Defense Program; The Bad Man; Backwash; The Ballad of Davy Crockett; Be Seated; Buffalo Historical Marionettes; The Case of Philip Lawrence; Chalk Dust; The Cherokee Night; Children's Autumn Festival; The Children's Holiday Festival; Clap Hands; Class of '29; Community Drama Spring Tournament; Criminal at Large; The Dance of Death; Dance Program for Young Folk; Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of); Easter Festival for Children; The Eternal Prodigal; Eugene O'Neill's One Act Plays of the Sea; Hansel and Gretel and String Fever; A Hero is Born; How Long Brethren?; Holy Night; Horse Play; It Can't Happen Here; Jefferson Davis; Life and Death of an American; The Lights O' London; Love in Humble Life; Lucy Stone; Macbeth; Machine Age; Mississippi Rainbow; Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown; Murder in the Cathedral; Native Ground; Noah; On the Rocks; The Path of Flowers; Pinocchio; Processional

Buffalo Historical Marionettes available in digital format.

Programs: Professor Mamlock; Power; Revolt of the Beavers; Seemans Ballade; She Stoops to Conquer; The Show-Off; Showing Off; The Silver Cord; Stars on Strings; Sweet Land; The Sun and I; The Tailor Becomes a Store Keeper; Taking the Air; Tobias and the Angel; Tons of Money; Trial by Jury; The Trial of Doctor Beck; Turpentine; Twelfth Night; Varieties of 1939; A Woman of Destiny; Williamsville's Old Home Day; Young Tramps

Flyers and playbills: Current productions flyer - Big Blow, Prologue to Glory, One-Third of a Nation, On the Rocks; Another Language (9 copies); The Bat (3 copies); Buffalo Historical Marionettes Benefit Performance; Children's Autumn Festival; The Cradle Will Rock; The Emperor's New Clothes (3 copies); Fair and Warmer; Flight; Horse Eats Hat; Horse Play; How Long Brethren?; Iolanthe (4 copies); It Can't Happen Here (14 copies); Life and Death of an American; Moving Along (2 copies); Oliver Twist The Path of Flowers; The Perfect Alibi; Power; Processional; Professor Mamlock; Swing It; School for Scandal (10 copies)

Buffalo Historical Marionettes Benefit Performance is available in digital format.

Flyers and playbills: Sing for Your Supper; Tom Thumb Circus; Tons of Money; Treasure Hunt; Treasure Island; Trial by Jury; The Trial of Dr. Beck; Varieties of 1938; Varieties of 1939; Vaudeville; Walk Together Chillun; We Live and Laugh. 8.5x14" flyers and playbills: Adam and Eva; All American Minstrels; Ask Dad; Awake and Sing; The Barker; Bassa Moona; Circus; The Emperor's New Clothes; H.M.S. Pinafore; Haiti; Mikado; The Perfect Alibi; Revolt of the Beavers; Sun-Up; Vaudeville; A Woman of Destiny

Newspaper format program for One-Third of a Nation. Volume V number 3 to number 14

Newspaper format program for One-Third of a Nation. Volume V number 15-17, 19-23

Newspaper format program for Power. Volume II number 1, Volume III number 1

Criminal at Large

Her Majesty the Widow

Personal Appearance

Post Road

Remember the Day

Saturday's Children

Tamed and How

Another Language; The Barker; The Old Maid; There's Always Juliet

As Husbands Go; I Want a Policeman

The First Mrs. Fraser

The Good Fairy

It's a Wise Child

The Late Christopher Bean

Ned McCobbs Daughter

Possession

Sun Up

Tea for Three

They Knew What They Wanted

Three Cornered Moon

Fresh Fields

First Lady; The Garden Circus; Heavenly Bound; Heidi; Outward Bound; Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Scarlet; The Silver Thread; Three One Act Plays - A Rocky Mount, The Valiant, The Flattering World; The Unseen and Another Beginning

The Bad Man; Boy Meets Girl; The Christmas Carol; Federal Theatre for Youth (overview); The First Legion; It Can't Happen Here; Noah; Robin Hood; The Trial of Mary Dugan; Triple A Plowed Under

Alice in Wonderland; Counsellor-At-Law; One-Third of a Nation; Third Annual Central Oklahoma Folk Festival;

The Living Newspaper (One-Third of a Nation); Prelude to Spring; Puppet Pageant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Stepping Stars; Vaudeville

Christmas with Dickens

Alice in Wonderland; Black Empire; Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby; Counsellor-at-Law; Is Zat So; It Can't Happen Here; The Pursuit of Happiness; See How They Run; Stevedore

Green Grow the Lilacs; Old Heidelberg

photocopies, many with original performance dates handwritten on them - Adelante; Battle Hymn; Beyond the Horizon; Big Blow; Black Empire; Both Your Houses; Children's Autumn Festival; Class of '29; The Cradle Will Rock; Dance of Death; The Devil Passes; Doctor Faustus; The Emperor's New Clothes; Fantasy 1939; Frankie and Johnny; Fly Away Home; Green Grow the Lilacs; Hell Bent Fer Heaven; Help Yourself; Horse Eats Hat; How Long Brethren?; A Doris Humphrey-Charles Weidman Dance Program; It Can't Happen Here; Johnny Johnson; Judgment Day; The Lonely Man; The Long Voyage Home; Madame X; The Man in the Tree; The Merchant of Venice; The Milky Way; Night Must Fall; O Say Can You Sing; One Sunday Afternoon; One-Third of a Nation; Outward Bound; Pinocchio; Power; Prologue to Glory; The Pursuit of Happiness; Ready! Aim! Fire!; Redemption; The Revolt of the Beavers; Sing For Your Supper; Six Characters in Search of an Author; Spirochete; The Story of Ferdinand; The Sun and I; The Sun Rises in the West; Swing Parade; The Taming of the Shrew; Trojan Incident; Twelfth Night; The Twilight of the Theatre; When Knighthood was in Flower; The Young Choreographers Laboratory; Young Tramps. Photocopies.

Adam and Eva; Adelante; The All-American Minstrels; Androcles and the Lion; Another Language; Ask Dad; Awake and Sing

Oversize posters where each poster is a piece of a larger whole. There are seven pieces for Alison's House and five for The Warrior's Husband. Roughly each piece measures 42 inches high and 28 inches wide.

The Bad Man; Backwash; The Ballad of Davy Crockett; The Barker; Bassa Moona; The Bat; Battle Hymn; Be Seated; Big Blow

Oversize posters where each poster is a piece of a larger whole. There are three pieces for Bill of Divorcement, two for Blind Alley, two for Gods of the Lightning, and one unknown. Roughly each piece measures 42 inches high and 28 inches wide. A smaller poster (22 inches high and 14 inches wide) is included for the play Pursuit of Happiness performed at the Mayan Theatre in Los Angeles in August of 1937.

The Case of Philip Lawrence; Chalk Dust; The Cherokee Night; Circus - All New Acts Circus, Circus Fans' Night, Federal Theatre's Great 3 Ring Circus, W.P.A. Federal Circus, W.P.A. 3 Ring Circus, The World's Greatest Circus; Class of '29; Community Drama Spring Tournament 1938; Community Drama Spring Tournament 1939; Conjure Man Dies; Coriolanus; The Cradle Will Rock

The Dance of Death; A Dance Program for Young Folk; Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of)

Einmal Mensch; The Emperor's New Clothes; An Enemy of the People; The Eternal Prodigal; Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays of the Sea

Fair and Warmer; Fantasy 1939; Flight

H.M.S. Pinafore; Haiti; Hansel and Gretel and String Fever; Help Yourself; A Hero is Born; Holy Night; Horse Eats Hat; Horse Play; How Long Brethern

The Idle Inn; In Heaven and Earth; Injunction Granted!; Iolanthe; It Can't Happen Here

Life and Death of an American; The Lights O' London; Live Dolls on the Moon; Die Lokalbahn; Love in Humble Life; Lucy Stone

Macbeth; Machine Age; The Mikado; Mississippi Rainbow; Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown; Moving Along; Murder in the Cathedral

Native Ground; No More Peace; Noah

On the Rocks; On Top; One-Third of a Nation; Outside Looking In

The Path of Flowers; Patience; The Perfect Alibi; The Pinocchio; The Pirates of Penzance; Power; Processional; Professor Mamlock; Prologue to Glory

Das Schlossgespenst der Meister Napoleons; School for Scandal; Seemanns Ballade; She Stoops to Conquer; The Show-Off; Showing Off; Sing for your Supper; Stars on Strings; Sweet Land; Swing It; Swing Mikado; The Sun and I; Sun-Up

The Tailor Becomes a Store Keeper; Taking the Air; Tobias and the Angel; Tom Thumb Circus; Treasure Hunt; Treasure Island; Trial by Jury; The Trial of Dr. Beck; Trojan Incident; Turpentine; Two Plays by Paul Green (Unto Such Glory, Hymn to the Rising Sun); Twelfth Night

The Variety Theatre (playbill); Vaudeville (126 flyers for different vaudeville shows and locations in New York City)

Programs, flyers, and playbills: Walk Together Chillun; We Live and Laugh; A Woman of Destiny; The World we Live in

Programs, flyers, and playbills: Various plays in Yiddish; The Young Choreographers Laboratory; Young Tramps; Der Zerbrochene Krug (The Broken Jug)

Subseries 4.3 includes manuscript scores and parts for multiple Federal Theatre productions. Resource material used for reference purposes for play productions and Federal Theatre units and regions throughout the United States consists of mostly printed music and is found under "miscellaneous". Chiefly arranged alphabetically by title and then according to standard orchestral instrument order. Some duplicates.

by Edna Rosalyne Heard, Los Angeles, California

includes music for piano, guitar, bassoon, violin 1, violin 2, trumpet 1, trumpet 2, tromone 1, drums, organ, cello, bass, by Edna Rosalyne Heard, Los Angeles, California

by Willy B. Stahl and Walter C. Schad, Los Angeles, California

includes music for piano, violin, male voices, bassoon, clarinet, trumpet, and bass

violin music, arranged by M. L. Lake

by Eddison von Ottenfeld

by Alex North

by Fred Miller Jr. and L. Leslie Loth

by Herbert Kingsley, New York, New York

includes music for "I'm Happy About the Whole Thing" by Harry Warren, and "It's Never too Late" by Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb. Los Angeles, California

music for "It's No Fun" by Charles Newman, Murray Mencher, and Milton Ager

music for vocal lead on "Sweet by and by"

by Eddison von Ottenfeld, Los Angeles, California

photocopy

by Hans Bruno Meyer, New York, New York

violin music "If She Says No"

music for violin includes "Alla Polacca de la Serenade Op. 8", "Moment Musical", "Marche all Turca"

Chicago, Illinois

violin music "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton", Los Angeles, California

by Charles J. Levy

includes "The Fortune Teller"; "That's Why Darkies Were Born"; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; "Prohibition"; "The Barber of Seville"; "Three Lyric Pieces"; miscellaneous violin and trombone; Avono Suite "Largo"

by Charles Wakefield Cadman

by R. E. Austin

by Irvin Cooper

[Eddison von Ottenfeld] Los Angeles, California

by Meyer Rappaport and Emile Cote

From the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "Ice Follies of 1939", composed by Daniele Amfitheatrof

by Marshall Bartholomew

music by Genevieve Pitot, New York

by F. Melius Christiansen

by Paul Lincke

by Ralph Story

by Paul Lincke

by Mozart-Shelley

by Daniel Wood and Sumner Salter

Ernestine Valencia, arranged by Dan J. Michaud

by Edward Elgar and Arthur Fagge

by J. L. Molloy, arranged by N. Clifford Page. Stamped on cover "Federal Project #1 Inspection Department"

by Hans Bruno Meyer

paraphrase for mixed voices by William Schaeffer

by Ivor Tchervanow and Ralph L. Baldwin

by Rimsky-Korsikoff, arranged by Jacob Schwartzdorf

by May H. Brahe

violin music, by Edna R. Heard

Piano music "Party Entre Act 1-2", Los Angeles, California

by Max Hirschfeld, New York, New York

by Jean Stor, New York, New York

by David Sheinfeld

by John Ansell

This series includes two coats and two pairs of pants created and used by the Federal Theatre Project.

Long red coat with black and gold striping, metal snap buttons, and hook enclosures. A gold crown is featured on the chest and back. The Inside label reads: "Property of Theatre Workshop Costume Unit Drama Department Emergency Relief Bureau."

A long coat, colored a black/brown with a single row of maroon buttons. The coat is trimmed with orange and green flower decoration along the collar, hem, cuffs, and buttons. A label inside the coat reads: "Property of Theatre Workshop Costume Unit Drama Department Emergency Relief Bureau." Handwritten on the label is "Bob Webber (Matt)" and "White Iolantia."

Two pairs of men's pants, one yellow, one red. Both pants stop below the knee. Both pants have a label that reads: "Property of Theatre Workshop Costume Unit Drama Department Emergency Relief Bureau." In the waist band of the yellow pant the name Don Chiles is handwritten.

Biographical / historical:

The Federal Theatre Project was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which provided employment for large numbers of artists, writers, and performers during the Great Depression (1929-1939). The Federal Theatre began in 1935 and, until its end in 1939, flourished as the first and only federally sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States. Directed by Hallie Flanagan (1880-1969), it was a way for theatrical professionals to gain employment during the Depression. Jobs were provided for many people, including actors, playwrights, scene designers, scene builders, seamstresses, lighting experts, ushers, box-office men, and stagehands.

Like many New Deal programs implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Federal Theatre Project was intended not only to benefit its participants, but also to enrich the condition of the nation. Theater was a distinguished part of American popular culture, but the economic downturn of the Depression had bankrupted the entire theater industry. As the theater houses closed down, the nation was left without an outlet for theatrical creativity. According to Hallie Flanagan, this hurt the nation as much as it hurt the theater industry - indeed, the nation was their audience and the theater could provide entertaining distractions from the effects of Depression as well as offer commentary on present conditions.

But it was not enough to simply return to the pre-Depression concept of theater. In the first meeting with her staff Flanagan expressed her willingness to follow Roosevelt's experimental approach to public policy: "In a changing world, a world of experiment, the stage too must experiment - with ideas, with the psychological relationship of men and women, with color and light.... The theatre must grow up."

Flanagan pursued her ideal of developing the relationship between the Federal Theatre and the federal government: "Any theatre sponsored by the government of the United States should do no plays of a cheap, trivial, outworn or vulgar nature, but only such plays as the Government can stand proudly behind in a planned theatrical program, national in scope, regional in emphasis, and American in democratic attitude." To Flanagan, it was imperative that this new theater should be progressive and experimental, yet within a patriotic and informative framework.

The productions that best embodied Flanagan's views on theater were the Living Newspapers. These hard-hitting, poignant plays dealt with contemporary factual material, dramatizing issues such as housing, agriculture, labor, and destitution. Always ending on an upbeat note, Living Newspapers underscored the importance of hard work and morality in overcoming difficult times. Living Newspaper titles include: Triple A Plowed Under, Injunction Granted, One Third of a Nation, and Spirocheta.

The Federal Theatre was noted for employing Black Americans at a time when the Federal Government did not actively protect the rights of marginalized communities. This unit was called "The Negro Unit," which at the time was a socially acceptable term used to describe people of African descent. All-Black theatre companies were an established industry before the Depression. As a result, the inclusion of this unit greatly contributed to the success of the Federal Theatre Project. Some of the most spectacular productions were put on by Black theater professionals, for example: Macbeth, Haiti, Turpentine, Run Little Chillun, and The Trial of Dr. Beck.

Acquisition information:

Donated by the Library of Congress.

Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. Reprocessed and EAD completed in 2012 by Greta Kuriger. Finding aid updated by Robert Vay in February 2023.

Arrangement:

Arranged into five series.

Series

Series 1: Administrative Records, 1935-1939 (Boxes 1-5, 361, 365-366, 368)
Series 2: Play Service and Research Records, 1935-1939 (Boxes 5-105)
Series 3: Library Records, 1885-1986 (Boxes 106-306)
Series 4: Production Records, 193-193 (Boxes 307-363, 366-367)
Series 5: Costumes, circa 1935-1939 (Boxes 369-371)

Physical location:

R 1, C 8, S 6 - C 9, S 7 R 2, C 1, S 1 - C 8, S 3 OS R 7, C 1, S1 OS R 3, C 5, S 5 - S 6 Map Case 9.1, 11.1, 11.3-11.5, 21.2

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Children's theater
New Deal, 1933-1939
Political plays, American
Radio and theater
Theater programs
Theater -- United States
Theater
Theater -- Production and direction
Performing arts
Playscript

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