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An hour upon the stage
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The Brief Life of the Federal Theatre
WITH SIXTEEN million workers out of a job during the worst years of the Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt took drastic measures: he embarked on a public works program that built 650,000 miles of roads, 125,000 public buildings, 75,000 bridges, and 8,000 parks. One of the controversial ventures of the Works Progress Administration was the Federal Theatre Project, which put nearly 30,000 people back to work, only to gutter out four years later.
The Federal Theatre Project produced twelve hundred plays and brought theater to an audience of more ...
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