Federal Theatre Project

James Shapiro's book "The Playbook" is a timely reminder both of the power of theater and of the vehement antipathy it can generate.

Why conservatives killed America’s federally funded theater.

Scripted from front-page news, the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper plays were part entertainment, part protest, and entirely educational.

The Federal Theatre Project put dramatic artists to work — and we could do it again.

Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Federal Theatre Project

In segregated units set up under the Federal Theatre Project, African American artists took on work usually reserved for whites and wrote radical dramas.

Reiner, Stephen Colbert, Jordan Peele, Steve Carrell, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Their comedy descends directly from the Works Progress Administration.

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

The case for a Federal Writers' Project 2.0.