WPA Federal Theatre Project: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Studies of the WPA Federal Theatre Project include The Federal Theatre Project: A Catalog-Calendar of Productions (1986), compiled by the staff of George Mason University’s Fenwick Library; Glenda E. Gill, White Grease Paint on Black Performers: A Study of the Federal Theatre of 1935–1939 (1988); George Kazacoff, Dangerous Theatre: The Federal Theatre Project as a Forum for New Plays (1989); Barbara Melosh, Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theatre (1991); Rena Fraden, Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935–1939 (1994); and Paul Sporn, Against Itself: The Federal Theater and Writers’ Projects in the Midwest (1995).

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Type Description Contributor Date
Modified link of Web site: Okhlahoma Historical Society - Federal Theater Project. Apr 04, 2019
Bibliography revised and updated. Sep 08, 2008
Article revised and updated. Aug 19, 2008
Media added. Sep 25, 2007
Added new Web site: Library of Congress - The New Deal Stage: Selections from the Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939. Oct 19, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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