On Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project
August 27 was both the founding day of the Federal Theatre Project (1935-39) and the birthday of its only director Hallie Flanagan (Hallie Ferguson, 1889-1969). Even if the FTP had never existed, Flanagan would have been a significant person in the history of American theatre. A widowed single mom, the Grinnell College grad (Iowa) enrolled […]