What were some popular plays during the great depression?

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What were some popular plays during the great depression?amc theater

Here are some of the more noted plays of the Great Depression by the theater that they often are associated with.

Federal Theater Project:

The Living News Paper - "Ethiopia"

The Living News Paper - "Power"

The Living News Paper - "One-Third of a Nation"

"The Cradle Will Rock"

Blitzstein, Houseman and Welles collaborated on the controversial FTP production of The Cradle Will Rock. This is contovesial play that may have ended the FTP and inspired the movie with Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Jack Black, Joan Cusak and Bill Murrary - It is a great film -see it it is on video)

There are 68 FTP playscripts that have been digitized online. The playscripts are selected from the Federal Theatre Collection. See this link:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fedtp/ftscri...

Group Theater - "Waiting for Lefty" - this one really sums up the feeling and political spirit of the era's plays.

Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre:

"Vodoo - McBeth"

a comtemporary "Julius Caesar" these plays are both ledgends.

The Federal Theatre Project (FTP), directed by Hallie Flanagan, was created according to Hopkins as a "free, adult, uncensored" federal theater. In addition to theater productions the FTP also established radio units, dance and vaudeville and circus productions, as well as marionette and children's theater companies. Reflecting the times, "***** Units" were established in several cities.

There were a number of theatrical companies in addition to the Federal Theatre鈥攕uch as the Theatre Union and Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre鈥攖hat attempted to put on plays that were artistically challenging as well as socially relevant. No company was more successful in this effort than the aptly named Group Theatre. Founded in 1931 by the directors Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, and Cheryl Crawford, and featuring actors such as Stella Adler, John Garfield, Franchot Tone, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, and Elia Kazan, the Group Theatre survived throughout the Great Depression in New York City as a noncommercial repertory company without stars or prima donnas, devoted to plays of current significance, and emphasizing a psychologically realistic acting style known as the Method, which Clurman and Strasberg borrowed from the ideas Konstantin Stanislavsky pioneered during his reign as director of the pre-Bolshevik Moscow Art Theatre.

What were some popular plays during the great depression?concerts opera theater

Odets: The Golden Boy, Waiting for Lefty.
"The Grapes of Wrath" is about the dust bowl, if you want to stretch it a bit...