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Reviewed on November 1, 2003
Spawned by the Works Progress Administration as a means of employing more than 20,000 theater artists during the Great Depression, the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), alive for only four short years, 1935-39, irrevocably changed our ideas about theater and the role of government in art. In collaboration with the Educational Film Center, Schwartz produced the PBS special Who Killed the Federal Theatre?: An Investigation, which airs this fall; ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More