Before voting against this organization, an anonymous representative complained, “Culture! What the Hell! Let ’em have a pick and shovel!” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this organization that produced “Living Newspapers” like Triple-A Plowed Under. Congress pulled this organization’s funding over its tendency to sponsor left-wing plays like Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock.
ANSWER: Federal Theatre Project [or FTP; prompt on Works Progress Administration or WPA]
[10e] Among the FTP’s “un-American” activities were its foreign language productions, such as an adaptation of this novel in Yiddish. Buzz Windrip turns the US into a dictatorship in this Sinclair Lewis novel.
ANSWER: It Can’t Happen Here
[10h] The FTP also sponsored Paul Green’s “symphonic dramas,” which are musical plays with this quality. Green’s play about Walter Raleigh with this quality, The Lost Colony, is still performed annually.
ANSWER: they are performed outdoors [or in open air; accept answers indicating being performed outside; accept answers indicating that they are performed at the locations of the events they depict]
<Henry Atkins, American Literature>