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Broadway and the Blacklist (Paperback)
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Broadway and the Blacklist (Paperback)
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One of the darker epochs of American history were the years
commonly thought of, although misnamed, the McCarthy-Era, where
motion picture and television artists, most notably actors and
writers were unable to work as they found themselves on "the
blacklist." There was, however, a place to go and create and keep
your name: theatre.We begin at the turn of the 20th Century when
theatre consisted primarily of melodramas, pot-boilers, and drawing
room comedies save for the occasional Shakespearean play brought
across the ocean by an English company looking for new lands to
conquer, The reader is introduced to the Theatre Guild which births
the Group Theatre. It looks at the short life and death of the
Federal Theatre Project, and the investigations of the motion
picture and television industries by the House Committee on
Un-American Activities (HUAC). The role the three major performing
arts unions played is vital to this story, leading into
investigating Broadway and the theatre artists who continue to make
work in spite of it all. This book opens the window on an art form
that brought light into the darkness, and ends as a simple love
letter to theatre and those who create it.
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