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Federal Theatre (1935–39), branch of the Work Projects Administration Work Projects Administration (WPA), former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration; it was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, when it was made part of ..... Click the link for more information. designed to provide employment for actors, directors, writers, and scene designers. As well as providing a nationwide audience with inexpensive, high-quality productions, it gave impetus to experimental theaters, such as the Group Theatre, the Mercury Theatre of Orson Welles, the topical "Living Newspaper" (dramatizations of news stories), and the music-dramas of Marc Blitzstein. BibliographySee study by J. D. Mathews (1967, repr. 1971). 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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If Wilson had instead offered his plays to Woody King's New Federal Theatre, the St. is producing director of New Federal Theatre in New York City, which produced the New York staging of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. The 2001-2002 awards went to Marlies Yearby; Rennie Harris (who also received a main stage commission for BDTT 2002); Louis Johnson's children's dance theater workshops; Chuck Davis and Donald McKayle (collaborating on a dance revival of the 1936 Federal Theatre vodoun production of Macbeth); and Noble Douglas (Trinidad), Reggie Wilson (Brooklyn), and Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe), for a trilateral collaboration that they characterize as "linked by ties of African ancestry. |
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