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	Back Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sol Theatre Project, Inc.’s Board Of Directors meet at least three times a year to discuss status, issues, goals, budget, and vote on operational decisions.
		On March 16, 2001 the state of Florida’s Division of Corporations granted non-profit corporate certification to Sol Theatre Project. Secondly on December 10, 2001 federal tax-exempt recognition was received from the IRS under IRS Code 501c3.
		He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and received his Masters of Fine Arts in Theatre at Florida Atlantic University in 1989.
	www.soltheatre.com /index_files/Page780.htm (319 words)

	Federal Theatre Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a project to fund theater performances in the United States during the Great Depression.
		She was given the daunting task of building a national theatre to employ thousands of unemployed artists in as little time as possible.
		Hopkins added to the difficulty of her job by promising the FTP would be "free, adult, and uncensored." In time, this statement would come to haunt Hopkins, Flanagan and the FTP as a whole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Theatre_Project (496 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Federal Theatre Project
		She also felt that Glenn Hughes, whose association with the Project had been strongest in its initial stages, was too preoccupied with his duties at the University of Washington to focus on the Federal Theatre Project.
		As Seattle project members joined hundreds of citizens of Vancouver, Washington, on the banks of the Columbia River to present Flotilla of Faith, a historic reenactment of the first crossing by whites of the great river, Congress was sounding the Federal Theatre Project’s death knell.
		Federal funding for the arts was controversial, although the budget for the Project amounted to less than 1 percent of the WPA’s total allocation.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=3978 (2138 words)

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		Irrespective of the merit of its art treasure, the McLean Mansion represents the conception of art as a commodity to be purchased by the rich, possessed by the rich, and shared on occasional Wednesday evenings with the populace who, gaping in ecstasy, were allowed to file past the accumulated treasures.
		I remembered a theatre meeting in the great Hall of Mirrors in Leningrad where reflected from every side in those mirrors which once gave back the image of the Empress, and later the execution of her officers, I saw the faces of Stalin, Litvinov, Lunachaisky, Petrov and other leaders of political, educational and theatrical life.
		Hopkins saying that all employable theatre people from relief rolls are at work on projects; more important still, that they have been put to work on theatre projects as intelligent, as vital, and as varied as the imaginations around this table.
	newdeal.feri.org /ftp/ftp001.htm (2808 words)

	Federal Music Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Music Project (FMP), part of the United States federal government New Deal program Federal One, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression.
		In addition to performing thousands of concerts, offering music classes, organizing the Composers Forum Laboratory, hosting music festivals and creating 34 new orchestras, employees of the FMP researched American traditional music and folk songs, a practice now called ethnomusicology.
		In the latter domain the Federal Music Project did notable studies on cowboy, Creole and "Negro" music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Music_Project (198 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection: About the WPA Federal Theatre Project
		Hallie Flanagan was sworn in as director of the drama project (FTP) on August 29, 1935.
		A Regional Director of the Federal Theatre Project was appointed for each of these regions to act as the representative, in that region, for the Federal Director of Theatre Projects in Washington.
		The Loan and Coordinating Project of the Federal Theatre Project was established in New York City at the beginning of February 1937.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftwpa.html (3103 words)

	Don Farren on the Federal Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Under Hopkins the federal "white-collar" projects were born -- Federal Writers, Federal Arts, Federal Music, Federal Theatre, Historical Records Survey, American Imprints Inventory -- with Ellen Woodward and her very capable assistant Florence Kerr (from Iowa) directly in charge of them at the national level.
		Most of these projects operated in all of the states at one time or another; and many of them at the state level, under male State Administrators, were in charge of women who supervised the "White-collar" responsibilities and personnel.
		Federal Theatre had selected it as their first presentation, and in the nation's capital.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/farran.htm (4331 words)

	New Deal Cultural Programs
		As Federal Theatre Project director Hallie Flanagan said of her division, "We all believed that theater was more than a private enterprise, that it was also a public interest which, properly fostered, might come to be a social and educative force." {4}
		Federal One projects involved a far greater degree of national direction than public arts administrators of the post-1960s era have considered appropriate.
		Federal One created opportunities for artists who would have had the greatest difficulties sustaining their work otherwise; and for thousands of people who might never have been able to paint or write or attend live theater themselves.
	www.wwcd.org /policy/US/newdeal.html (4418 words)

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		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) was a division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was established to provide work for unemployed citizens during the Great Depression (1929-39).
		The FTP began in August 1935 and flourished as the first and only government sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States.
		The FTP was successful in both big cities, like New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago, as well as in small towns, like Spencer, MA, Mamaroneck, NY and Derry, NH, that had never seen a live theatrical production.
	www.aladin.wrlc.org /gsdl/collect/faids/import/GMftpp.shtml (591 words)

	The Federal Theatre Project
		Hopkins hired Flanagan [this link takes you to the Billy Rose Theatre Collection at New York City's Public Library at Lincoln Center] to be the head of the Federal Theatre Project, which was divided into five areas--New York City, the East, the South, the Midwest, and the West.
		The "Negro Units" of the Federal Theatre Project were headed by Rose McClendon, a well-known fl actress, and John Houseman, a theatre producer who was able to get actor/director Orson Welles to work with the unit.
		The Federal Theatre Project had brought theatre to millions who had never seen theatre before, it employed millions of people, it introduced European epic theatre and Living Newspaper theatre techniques to the United States, and hence could be seen as a great success.
	novaonline.nv.cc.va.us /eli/spd130et/federaltheatre.htm (2106 words)

	The Federal Theatre Project
		Below are excerpts from a brief of the project presented to the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives in 1938.
		The Federal Theatre of the Air is a branch in which we are sincerely interested not only because it is a remarkable medium for returning our people to private industry, but also because it is a new theatre in the making of which we can have a part.
		It is an amazing fact that of the 25,000,000 people who have witnessed Federal Theatre productions to date, sixty-five per cent indicate on their questionnaires that they have never before seen a play with living actors, but that having started, they intend to continue to go to plays.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/timeline/depwwii/art/theatre.html (986 words)

	Federal Theatre Project - Special Collections - University of Iowa Libraries - The University of Iowa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Federal Theater, part of the Works Progress Administration's Art Project, began its life in October of 1935, after the realization came that playwrights and actors, stagehands and costume designers were no less hungry and out of work in the Great Depression than other Americans.
		By 1939, the appropriations for the Federal Theater had been cut regularly, and in June of that year, it passed out of existence entirely.
		"The Federal Government and Theatre: A History of Federal Involvement in Theatre from the End of the Federal Theatre Project in 1939 to the Establishment of the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities in 1965." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1972.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc350/MsC314/MsC314_fedtheatre.htm (1097 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Poster, Costume, and Set Design Slide Collection
		The FTP began in August 1935 and flourished as the first and only federally-sponsored and subsidized theater program in the United States until its closing in 1939.
		The FTP also utilized professional set and costume designers, who, along with the FTP workers who sewed the costumes and constructed the sets, added some dramatic realism to the productions.
		In 1974 George Mason University professor Lorraine Brown discovered the Federal Theatre Project Collection in a Library of Congress storage depot and arranged for the collection to come to GMU on temporary loan.
	www.aladin.wrlc.org /gsdl/collect/ftpp/ftpp.shtml (349 words)

	Federal Theatre Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Federal Theatre Project was part of the vast U.S. government emergency relief program in the mid-'30s, called the Works Progress Administration.
		The Federal Theatre Project (FTP), along with the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project and Federal Writers' Project, provided employment to many otherwise out-of-work artistic professionals from 1935 until 1939.
		The goals of this project were to determine what would serve as "preservation quality" as well as "access quality" images for typical manuscript documents, as well as to study speed of digital conversion.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/9712/ftp.html (1398 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Federal Theatre Project (ftp) was one of five public works programs for artists and writers created in 1935 by the New Deal Works Progress Administration (wpa).
		The ftp was the most controversial and short-lived of the wpa's arts projects.
		Congress abolished the ftp in 1939 because of this controversy and as part of a general abandonment of the New Deal.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_030600_federaltheat.htm (344 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Pathfinder
		The WPA Federal Theatre Project [was a] national theatre project sponsored and funded by the U.S. government as part of the Works Projects Administration (WPA).
		Theatre Journal is available as follows: [from 3/1/1993 to 5/1/1995 in Expanded Academic ASAP] [from 1996 to present in Project Muse]
		Theatre Topics is available from 1996 to present in Project Muse.
	www.rhodes.edu /library/pathfinders/federal_theatre.html (339 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection: Melodrama, Social Protest, and Genius
		Lorraine Brown is professor of English and associate director of the Research Center for the Federal Theatre Project at George Mason University in Virginia.
		She is coeditor with John O'Connor of Free, Adult, and Uncensored: The Living History of the Federal Theatre Project,a richly illustrated "scrapbook" of oral history excerpts, costume designs, posters, and photographs, and is currently editing an anthology of fl plays written for the Federal Theatre.
		But even state and federal programs employed only a fraction of the unemployed actors, directors, stagehands, and technicians, and as the depression worsened, theatrical unions became unable to care for their own members.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftbrwn00.html (806 words)

	The Infography about the Federal Theatre Project
		The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is the American Federal Theatre project.
		Uncle Sam Presents: A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939.
		Federal Theatre's "Androcles and The Lion": Shaw in Black and White.
	www.infography.com /content/833740310666.html (172 words)

	WPA Federal Theatre Project -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		While critics called the WPA an extension of the dole or a device for creating a huge patronage army loyal to the Democratic Party, the stated purpose of the program was to provide useful work for millions of victims of the Great Depression and thus to preserve...
		Out of the social protest movement that arose during the years of depression in the 1930s, a unit of the WPA Federal Theatre Project in the...
		Also called the Human Genome Initiative, the Human Genome Project is a controversial international effort launched in 1988 by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy to sequence and then decode all the genes on the 46 chromosomes of humans.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077530?tocId=9077530 (965 words)

	"It Was a Wildly Exciting Time": Milton Meltzer Remembers the New Deal's Federal Theatre Project
		Like the other New Deal arts projects, the FTP treated creative endeavors as work; it used government funds to hire unemployed actors, stage hands, and playwrights Perhaps best known for its trenchant political satire and innovative presentations, the FTP actually represented a much broader range of activity.
		Some people in the Project, some now great names such as Jackson Pollock, the painter he was fired at least six times in the three or four years he spent on the Project and got back on, again and again.
		It was a union of the unemployed and those on relief projects, and it was national in scope, and it had local, city-wide chapters, and all of us were very busy in that union because it was the one means to protect our jobs.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/132 (1010 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection: About the Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Library of Congress received its collection of the records of the Federal Theatre Project by transfer and gift over the years 1939-46, with the largest segment transferred from the Washington office of the U.S. Work Projects Administration (WPA) in 1940.
		The most complete description of the entire collection is The Federal Theatre Project Collection: A Registry of the Library of Congress Collection of U.S. Work Projects Administration Records.
		The Federal Theatre Project Collection is available to the public in the Performing Arts Reading Room of the Music Division, located in the Library's Madison Building.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftabout.html (179 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection
		The Massachusetts HRS supplied the project with documents from the American Antiquarian Society that could not be located elsewhere; these documents were photostated and added to the collection.
		The Federal Writers' Project portion of the collection, deposited at the Library in 1942, includes manuscripts that were approved for publication but remained unpublished for various reasons and copies of unedited material thought to be of potential research value.
		The location of the national writers' project editorial office at the Library of Congress between October 1939 and August 1940 meant that research materials for many of the titles in the American Guide series, including the guides for Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, and Texas, also came to the Library.
	international.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftcole07.html (548 words)

	An Hour Upon the Stage: The Brief Life of the Federal Theatre
		The Federal Theatre Project produced twelve hundred plays and brought theater to an audience of more than twenty-five million--many of whom were experiencing live theater for the first time.
		The Federal Theatre was an unprecedented experiment at the time of its creation--and one that has never been replicated in the U.S. on the same scale.
		The Washington Post disparaged the Federal Theatre’s “frilly artistic projects” and the San Francisco Examiner ran the headline, “Federal Theatre Communist Trend Must Be Eradicated.” Soon Flanagan found herself defending her art as well as her ideology before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
	www.neh.gov /news/humanities/2003-07/federaltheatre.html (2282 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection
		The story of the Library of Congress and the federal arts projects of the 1930s reflects the ambiguity of the relationship between the U.S. government and the arts.
		On the strength of its unparalleled Americana collections and the momentum of its recent successes in cultural entrepreneurship, it became the key agency for organizing and preserving the cultural record of depression-era America.
		Health was a popular subject for Federal Art Project posters, many of which are forerunners of today's public service advertisements.
	frontiers.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftcole01.html (731 words)

	Federal Theatre Project Collection
		She was dismayed, and concluded: "Because of the bulk of this material and its present condition, it appears unlikely that the Library will ever have the time, money, or personnel to finish the processing of this material...
		unless another WPA project is established." Furthermore, since she felt that much of the material was either of questionable research value or duplicated elsewhere, Miss Bourne recommended "unconditional and immediate destruction" of 958 cubic feet of material, or 63 percent of what she surveyed.
		The children's unit of the Federal Theatre Project pioneered in using adults, rather than children, to act in plays for young audiences.
	frontiers.loc.gov /ammem/fedtp/ftcole04.html (667 words)

	The Federal Theatre Project \| MetaFilter
		The Theatre Project helped develop an entire generation of directors, playwrights, designers and performers - who went on to bring an aesthetic to professional (then Broadway) theatre that is sorely lacking currently.
		Of particular interest is Revolt of the Beavers, in some ways the beginning of the end for the Federal Theater Project.
		A guiding idea of the WPA was to head off left-wing agitation, and yet many, many of the people involved in the projects were extremely progressive artists who saw the program as a way of getting their politics (which they saw inextricable from their art) into the public.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22394 (497 words)

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