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On December 18, 2019, the theatre was renamed to Arizona Federal Theatre, as Arizona Federal Credit Union owned the naming rights. [8] On July 11, 2022, the theatre was renamed once again to Arizona Financial Theatre [9] after the rebranding of Arizona Federal Credit Union into Arizona Financial Credit Union. [10]
National director Hallie Flanagan with bulletin boards identifying Federal Theatre Project productions under way throughout the United States. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–1939) was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States.
Arizona Federal Theatre, which opened in 2002 as the Dodge Theatre, becoming Comerica Theatre in 2010, has adopted another new name.
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario. Part of the Works Progress Administration, the Federal Theatre Project (1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression. [1]
The Living Newspaper program began very shortly after the establishment of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP). Following her appointment as National Director of the FTP in July 1935, Hallie Flanagan, a professor and playwright at Vassar College, [6] and playwright Elmer Rice set to work planning the organization and focus of the FTP. [7]
In 2001, Lenwood Sloan created the Vo-Du Macbeth, inspired in part by the 1936 Federal Theatre production. [35] The National Black Arts Festival announced their plans to revive the play in 2012 in Atlanta, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. [36] The American Century Theater produced the play in 2013. [37]
The Federal Art Project (1935–1943) of the Works Progress Administration was the largest of the New Deal art projects. [1] As many as 10,000 artists [2] were employed to create murals, easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters, photography, Index of American Design documentation, theatre scenic design, and arts and crafts. [3]
Federal Project Number One, also referred to as Federal One (Fed One), is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States. Of the $ 4.88 billion allocated by the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 , [ 1 ] $27 million was approved for the employment of artists ...