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The WPA’s Federal Theatre: Creating jobs and creative achievement

Originally published: National Jobs for all Network on June 10, 2021 by Sheila Collins and Trudy Goldberg (more by National Jobs for all Network) (Posted Jun 17, 2021)

A brief but spectacular achievement, the New Deal’s Federal Theatre Project (FTP) (1936-1939) provided jobs for some 13,000 destitute people at its height and created and produced 63,600 performances of 1,200 major theatrical works.