At the end of this 12-minute interview, Harris asks the viewers to research the Federal Theatre Project, and makes the case for bailing out the arts -- and one could think that a new FTP and a bail-out were one and the same thing.
I just read a new history of the Federal Theatre Project from Edinburgh University Press, and it feels as if all these theater lovers and theater makers calling for a second Federal Theater Project might not realize the problems that beset the first one.
