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The Political Power Of Theater

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:33:23
Publish Date: 2024-05-28 18:53:33
Description: Between 1935 and 1939, thirty million Americans had the chance to see a play thanks to Federal Theater Project. Nearly a century later, the theater's place in American life is shrinking.

Today, we look back on this one-of-kind federal project that believed in the power of theater, and we look forward to the role theater might play in upholding democracy even as the arts in America are being undermined.

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