What does FTP stand for?

Federal Theatre Project

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The opening had been canceled by order of the Federal Theatre Project — an annex of the Works Project Administration, the stimulus plan of its day, which was started in 1935 to give jobs to unemployed people in their areas of skill.

Then and there — apt for here and now

These resulted from Federal Project Number One, aka Federal One, which included five WPA-backed projects: the Federal Writers' Project, the Historical Records Survey, the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Music Project and the Federal Art Project.

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Browne, a native of New York City, first came to prominence as a performer, writer and acting coach with the Negro Repertory Company (NRC), Seattle's Negro unit of the Federal Theatre Project.

Looking Beyond Lucasta: The Black Dramas of the American Negro Theatre

She spent Long days in the Federal Theatre Project archives perusing photographs and sifting through notes, reviews, and old programs to track down long-retired dancers who might remember a phrase here or a motif there that would let the 25-minute work dance again.

Reviving the past: once-lost choreography lives again

Will Geer, the Theatricum's founder and Ellen Geer's father, was in Orson Welles' famed Federal Theatre Project production of ``Cradle'' in 1937, an event that - as film director Tim Robbins demonstrated - was far more interesting than the product Blitzstein actually put on stage.

BLITZSTEIN'S 'CRADLE' ROCKS

For example, consider the Federal Theatre Project (page 16), a 1935 Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that set out to put theatrical people to work but ended up creating controversy with some left-leaning productions.

EDITOR'S DESK

This incendiary musical play, with its bare-bones staging, pro-worker sentiments, and thumb-nosing approach to musical scoring, caught the unionist spirit of the day as it precipitated the downfall of the Federal Theatre Project amid suspicion of communist propagandizing.

SEEING RED

It was one of the first shows staged by the Seattle Negro Unit of the Federal Theatre Project, a national network of government-subsidized drama borne out of President Franklin Roosevelt's sweeping "New Deal" initiative.

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