Federal Theatre Project

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:art
New Deal program
gptkbp:budget $46 million (approximate, 1930s dollars)
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:director gptkb:Hallie_Flanagan
gptkbp:dissolved political pressure and accusations of leftist propaganda
gptkbp:endDate 1939
gptkbp:fundedBy gptkb:U.S._federal_government
gptkbp:headquartersLocation gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Federal Theatre Project
gptkbp:language gptkb:German
gptkb:Italian
gptkb:Spanish
gptkb:Yiddish
English
gptkbp:notableAlumni gptkb:Arthur_Miller
gptkb:John_Houseman
gptkb:Orson_Welles
gptkb:Elia_Kazan
gptkb:Susan_Glaspell
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:House_Un-American_Activities_Committee_investigation
gptkb:production_of_"Macbeth"_(Voodoo_Macbeth)
production of "Big White Fog"
production of "Horse Eats Hat"
production of "Injunction Granted"
production of "It Can't Happen Here"
production of "One-Third of a Nation"
production of "Pinocchio"
production of "Power"
production of "Revolt of the Beavers"
production of "Spirochete"
production of "The Adding Machine"
production of "The Case of Philip Lawrence"
production of "The Children's Hour"
production of "The Cradle Will Rock"
production of "The Devil and Daniel Webster"
production of "The Drunkard"
production of "The Emperor Jones"
production of "The Eternal Road"
production of "The Front Page"
production of "The Glass Menagerie"
production of "The Good Earth"
production of "The Green Pastures"
production of "The Hairy Ape"
production of "The House of Connelly"
production of "The Iceman Cometh"
production of "The Lady from the Sea"
production of "The Little Foxes"
production of "The Lost Colony"
production of "The Man Who Came to Dinner"
production of "The Petrified Forest"
production of "The Philadelphia Story"
production of "The Seagull"
production of "The Skin of Our Teeth"
production of "The Sun Rises in the West"
production of "The Swing Mikado"
production of "The Taming of the Shrew"
production of "The Tempest"
production of "The Time of Your Life"
production of "The Trojan Incident"
production of "The Women"
production of "The World We Live In"
production of "The Yearling"
production of "The Young Go First"
production of "Three Men on a Horse"
production of "Thunder Rock"
production of "Tobacco Road"
production of "Tovarich"
production of "Triple-A Plowed Under"
production of "Twentieth Century"
production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
production of "Valley Forge"
production of "Waiting for Lefty"
production of "Winterset"
production of "Within the Gates"
production of "You Can't Take It with You"
production of "Young Mr. Lincoln"
production of "Zero Hour"
production of "Ziegfeld Follies"
gptkbp:notableProduction gptkb:Living_Newspapers
gptkb:The_Cradle_Will_Rock
gptkb:Voodoo_Macbeth
gptkbp:notableUnit gptkb:Children's_Theatre_Unit
gptkb:Dance_Unit
gptkb:Living_Newspaper_Unit
gptkb:Negro_Theatre_Unit
gptkbp:numberOfEmployees over 10,000
gptkbp:parentOrganization gptkb:Works_Progress_Administration
gptkbp:purpose provide employment for theatre professionals during the Great Depression
gptkbp:startDate 1935
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Works_Progress_Administration
gptkbp:bfsLayer 3