uncensored theatre" -- something Flanagan spent the next four years trying to build. She emphasized the development of local and regional theatre, "to lay the foundation for the development of a truly creative theatre in the United States with outstanding producing centers in each of those regions which have common interests as a result of geography, language origins, history, tradition, custom, occupations of the people."

Operation

On October 24, 1935, Flanagan prefaced her instructions on the Federal Theatre's operation with

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