{"id":431,"date":"2025-05-12T08:13:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T08:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/?page_id=431"},"modified":"2025-05-23T20:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T20:31:13","slug":"research-source-material","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/research-source-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Research\/Source Material"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

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THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT<\/strong>
<\/span>RESEARCH\/SOURCE MATERIAL<\/strong><\/font><\/p><\/span>\n

We invite you to explore some of the resources that were used in the creation of this Performing History project. <\/p>


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Archives<\/strong><\/p>

Hallie Flanagan Papers, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library<\/p>

National Archives: FTP Playbills<\/p>


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Books and Plays<\/strong><\/p>

Arena<\/em> by Hallie Flanagan<\/p>

It Can\u2019t Happen Here <\/em>by Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt  (1936)<\/p>

Pins and Needles,<\/em> musical revue book by Arthur Arent, Marc Blitzstein, Emmanuel Eisenberg<\/em>, Charles Friedman, David Gregory, Joseph Schrank (1937)<\/p>

The Cradle Will Rock<\/em> by Marc Blitzstein (1937)<\/p>

The Federal Theatre Project, 1935-1939: Engagement and Experimentation<\/em> by Rania Karoula (2021)<\/p>

Voices from the Federal Theatre<\/em>, by Bonnie Nelson Schwarz and The Educational Film Center (2003)<\/p>


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Online Resources <\/strong><\/p>

Congressional Records<\/a><\/p>

Federal Theatre Project Play Scripts<\/a>, Library of Congress<\/p>

Living New Deal<\/a><\/p>

Living Newspapers<\/a>, Library of Congress blog<\/p>

Library of Congress Digital Collection: Federal Theatre Project<\/a><\/p>

Works Progress Administration: Life Histories<\/a><\/font>, Library of Virginia
<\/a><\/span><\/span>The Federal Theatre Project Collection<\/a><\/span><\/font>,<\/span><\/font><\/a> George Mason University<\/span><\/p>

Voices of the WPA<\/a>, George Mason University <\/p>

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\n \n Perry Bruskin\n<\/a> \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Martin Dies\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Hallie Flanagan (1935)\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Hallie Flanagan (1939)\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Rosamond Gilder\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Susan Glaspell\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Hazel Huffman\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Frida Kahlo\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Mary Merrill\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Virginia Nicholson\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Elmer Rice\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1935)\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Eleanor Roosevelt (1939)\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Franklin Delano Roosevelt\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Olive Stanton\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Helen Tamiris\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Orson Welles\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Artwork\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Collaborators\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Directors\u2019 Note\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Front Page Tableau\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Music\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Pen Pals\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Research\/Source Material\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Share Your Thoughts\n <\/a>\n  \u2022 <\/span>\n \n \n Special Thanks\n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-431","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performinghistory.com\/federal-theatre-project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}