Tuesday, April 29, 2003
NEA returns from the dead
Encouraging signs that the current administration takes more than a token interest in the NEA, and theater in particular. Actually, that’s an understatement. This comes about as close to Joseph Papp’s vision of theater reaching the masses as anything in this country’s history. In its heyday, the Federal Theatre Project of the ’30s provided crude, mostly agitprop productions to about 40 states. The current funding sends high-quality companies doing Shakespeare to all 50. And yes, the cowpoke in the White House gets a chunk of the credit.
Posted by Scott Reynolds at April 29, 2003 02:05 PM
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