Techniques for changing the world : the League of Workers Theatres / New Theatre League

Abstract

The League of Workers Theaters / New Theatre League leaders envisioned and partially accomplished a project like not other theatre organization in the U.S. : establishment of a national network of politically aligned theatres. Recovery of the League's story reveals a concerted and comparatively long-term effort with very complex goals that are themselves worthy of study. No other U.S. arts organization has attempted to weld art and politics together over such a geographically broad yet ideologically narrow way as did the leaders of the League.