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TITLE: The Federal Theatre Project: Uncovering Changes in Playscripts of Popular Performances

SPEAKER: Amy Brady
EVENT DATE: 10/24/2012
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 59 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)

DESCRIPTION:

Amy Brady discusses the Federal Theatre Project, America's first and only nationally subsidized theater, and how hyperspectral imaging helped to elucidate the history of some of the project's most popular performances.

Speaker Biography: Amy Brady, a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, spent nine months researching in the Federal Theater Project archives at the Library of Congress.

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