The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939

Humanities: Theatre

The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project 1935-1939 [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/fthome.html] - This online presentation includes over 13,000 images of items selected from the Federal Theatre Project Collection at the Library of Congress. Featured here are stage and costume designs, still photographs, posters, and scripts for productions of Macbeth and The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus as staged by Orson Welles, and for Power, a topical drama of the period (over 3,000 images). Also included are 68 other playscripts (6,500 images) and 168 documents selected from the Federal Theatre Project Administrative Records (3,700 images). The Federal Theatre Project was one of five arts-related projects established during the first term of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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