New Theatre League records 1932-1942

Bengal, Ben.

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Powell, Lindsay

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Chicago Repertory Group.

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The Chicago Repertory Group was founded in 1934 as an outgrowth of the Chicago Workers Theater (active 1933-1934). A non-profit group, the CRG's goal was to create socially relevant productions affordable to the general public. Their works ranged from social dramas to Federal Theater plays to original skits and plays. The group became inactive after about 1943. From the guide to the Chicago Repertory Group Collection, 1933-1943, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse Universi...

International Workers Order

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The International Workers Order (IWO), a Communist-affiliated, ethnically organized fraternal order, was founded in 1930 following a split from the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish labor fraternal order. Max Bedacht, the IWO general secretary from 1932-1946, also served on the Communist Party's Political Bureau. At its peak, shortly after World War II, the IWO had almost 200,000 members, including 50,000 in the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order. The IWO provided low-cost health and life insurance, medi...

American Peace Mobilization

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National Negro Congress

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Ben Irwin

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Negro Playwrights' Theatre

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Theodore Ward

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Sklar, George, 1908-

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New Theatre League

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The New Theatre League, a national non-profit federation of little theaters and amateur theatrical groups, was organized in 1935 to stimulate the writing and production of progressive social drama. It was both a publisher and a producer of plays promoting the aims of organized labor and peace and against racial discrimination and oppression. Its annual play contests led to the discovery and sponsorship of Clifford Odets who won for Waiting for Lefty in 1935, Irwin Shaw, 1936 winner,...

Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008

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Studs Terkel was born May 16, 1912, and died in Chicago on Oct. 31, 2008. Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre. From the description of It's a living, [videorecording], 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612307109 and the description of Studs Terkel papers and book interviews, ca. 1950-1999. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713907330 ...

National Federation for Constitutional Liberties

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Negro Playwrights' Company of Harlem

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