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Federal Theater provided employment for actors, directors, writers, and scene designers (1935–1939). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 932] See : Theater How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She was a member of the Federal Theater Dance Project in the 1930s and performed with Helen Tamiris, whose work she helped to reconstruct at the 2002 American Dance Festival. But Robbins expands his canvas to bring in the story of the beleaguered but determined Federal Theater Project director, Hallie Flanagan (played by Cherry Jones), and an account of Nelson Rockefeller's commission of a mural by Diego Rivera (John Cusack as Rockefeller and Ruben Blades as Rivera are wonderful, incidentally). The government-funded Federal Theater Project was an outgrowth of FDR's efforts to put people back to work even if the unemployed were only actors. |
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