Laborfest: “The Federal Theater Project & Its Work” Presentation @ SF State

Tuesday, July 8
7:00 pm

Presentation by Joel Schechter The Federal Theatre Project stages a pro-union play seventy years ago. SFSU Professor and theatre historian Joel Schechter will discuss Pinski’s play, its original production, and other progressive works staged under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Theatre Project between 1935 and 1939. The presentation includes a slide show of production photographs, and reading of excerpts about these works and plays from Schechter’s new book, Messiahs of 1933, just published by Temple University Press.
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