| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| (1935–39), branch of the Work Projects Administration designed to provide employment for actors, directors, writers, and scene designers. As well as providing a nationwide audience with inexpensive, high-quality productions, it gave impetus to experimental theaters, such as the Group Theatre, the Mercury Theatre of Orson Welles, the topical “Living Newspaper” (dramatizations of news stories), and the music-dramas of Marc Blitzstein. | 1 | | See study by J. D. Mathews (1967, repr. 1971). | 2 |
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