Searching for Theory in the Performing Arts Archives
Federal Theatre Project. Image ID: TH-12102During my residency this summer in The New York Public Library's Short-Term Fellows program, Â I was able to immerse myself in more than forty boxes of materials donated to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts by a rather remarkable woman named Hallie Flanagan Davis, director of the Federal Theatre Project from 1935-1939.Flanagan Davis appears to be somewhat…