The Washington Post, February 1st, 1993
People who disapprove of the National Endowment for the Arts might shudder to learn of the Federal Theatre Project, a 1930s government work program that employed more than 12,000 theater professionals and created more than 900 original plays before political pressures abruptly ended it. George Mason University, which houses the Library of Congress's Federal Theatre Archive, annually celebrates the project's legacy with plays, seminars and readings. This year the university-based Theater of the First Amendment is staging Dale Worsley's "The Last Living Newspaper," a meticulously researched dram...
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