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Federal Theater Project

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Federal Theater Project

US arts employment scheme 1935–39 founded as part of Roosevelt's New Deal by the Works Progress Administration; it provided affordable theatre throughout the USA and had long-term influence on modern US drama.

The project was directed by Hallie Flanagan, head of drama at Vassar college, and included the ‘Living Newpaper’ presenting current social and economic issues, the Negro Theater (initially under John Houseman), and an experimental theatre. It created many new groups and works before it was halted by Congress.



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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 Question of the Cradle by McKissack, Fred / The Progressive
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.
WELL-INTENTIONED ROBBINS DELIVERS AN EMPTY 'CRADLE' by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Unlike Anna Deavere Smith, Roger Smith does not attempt to bring to the audience his version of the Living Newspaper, performed by the Federal Theater Project during the late 1930s.
A Huey P. Newton Story by Walker, Victor Leo, II / African American Review
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