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Federal Theatre plays. Focus on women
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Title

  • Federal Theatre plays. Focus on women

Summary

  • New Federal Theatre presents the third in a series of four programs featuring excerpts from plays created by the WPA Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s. Features plays, radio scripts, newspaper anecdotes, the Theatre's Living newspaper dramatizations, a choreographic work, and dramatic presentations of events in the career of Hallie Ferguson Flanagan Davis, founder of the Federal Theatre Project. Ruth Warrick introduces the program.

Names

  • New Federal Theatre (Theatrical troupe)
  • Zinoman, Joy.
  • Warrick, Ruth.
  • Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund.
  • Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
  • Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 1977.

Headings

  • -  American drama--20th century
  • -  Flanagan, Hallie,--1890-1969--Drama

Notes

  • -  Directed by Joy Zinoman.
  • -  Recorded Oct. 18, 1977, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
  • -  Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.

Medium

  • 2 sound tape reels (1 hr., 55 min., 5 sec.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, stereo. ; 10 in. + program information ([10] p.)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LWO 9746 R1--LWO 9746 R2

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 92788013

Online Format

  • audio

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Chicago citation style:

New Federal Theatre, Joy Zinoman, Ruth Warrick, Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature, and U.S Federal Theatre Project. Federal Theatre plays. Focus on women. 1977. Audio. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/92788013/.

APA citation style:

New Federal Theatre, Zinoman, J., Warrick, R., Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry And Literature Fund, Archive Of Recorded Poetry And Literature & Federal Theatre Project, U. S. (1977) Federal Theatre plays. Focus on women. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/92788013/.

MLA citation style:

New Federal Theatre, et al. Federal Theatre plays. Focus on women. 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/92788013/>.