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The Federal Theatre, created by Congress during the Depression to bolster the ailing theater industry, pioneered new dramatic styles before controversy prompted the government to withdraw support
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Tony Buttitta (1907-2004) left graduate school in th eearly 1930s to start Contempo, a magazine that achieved fame with such contributors as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and many other notable authors. He was a correspondent for Variety during World War II and eventually became a top theatrical press agent on Broadway. His published work includes After the Good Gay Times: A Summer with F. Scott Fitzgerald in Asheville, N.C. Barry Witham is Professor Emeritus of Theater History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study and A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. His essays on the American theater have appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and the Dictionary of American Biography.
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- PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0812278267
- ISBN 13 9780812278262
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages232
- IllustratorFreeman Don
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