Uncle Sam Presents: A Memoir of the Federal Theatre, 1935-1939 (Anniversary Collection) - Hardcover

Buttitta, Tony; Witham, Barry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812278267 ISBN 13: 9780812278262

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection, 1982

Synopsis

The Federal Theatre, created by Congress during the Depression to bolster the ailing theater industry, pioneered new dramatic styles before controversy prompted the government to withdraw support

About this title

About the Author:

Tony Buttitta (1907-2004) left graduate school in th eearly 1930s to start Contempo, a magazine that achieved fame with such contributors as William Faulkner, James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, and many other notable authors. He was a correspondent for Variety during World War II and eventually became a top theatrical press agent on Broadway. His published work includes After the Good Gay Times: A Summer with F. Scott Fitzgerald in Asheville, N.C. Barry Witham is Professor Emeritus of Theater History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Federal Theatre Project: A Case Study and A Sustainable Theatre: Jasper Deeter at Hedgerow. His essays on the American theater have appeared in a variety of publications, including Modern Drama, Theatre Journal, and the Dictionary of American Biography.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0812278267
• ISBN 13: 9780812278262
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Illustrator: Freeman Don