Broadway and the Blacklist
- Author: Baar, K. Kevyne
Broadway and the Blacklist
- Author: Baar, K. Kevyne
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During the era often commonly known as McCarthyism, many motion picture and television creators were blacklisted for supposed communist ties. There remained, however, a creative outlet that still welcomed these artists--theatre.
This book explores the role theatre played during this turbulent period, covering the formation of the Theatre Guild (which birthed the Group Theatre), the short-lived Federal Theatre Project, and the investigations of the motion picture and television industries, and Broadway, by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).
Appendices discuss McCarthy's role and present the memos of investigator Dolores Faconti Scotti, along with a list of prominent witnesses in HUAC's Broadway hearings, and reactions by artists' unions in the decades following the blacklist.
Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Few Words on Spelling and Usage
- Prologue
- One. Theatre in America Enters the 20th Century
- Two. Un-American Theatre: The Short Life and Death of the Federal Theatre Project
- Three. Finding Subversives in Hollywood
- Four. Making Work While Blacklisted
- Five. What Has My Union Done for Me? SAG, AFTRA and Blacklisting
- Six. Actors’ Equity Association: The Chronicle of an Anti-Blacklisting Resolution
- Seven. Investigating Broadway: The 1955 HUAC Hearings
- Eight. After the 1955 HUAC Hearings: A Life in the Theatre Goes On
- Nine. The Name on the Marquee: Working on Broadway in the Shadow of the Blacklist
- Ten. Investigating Broadway … Again: The 1958 HUAC Hearings
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: McCarthyism: Why No Joe?
- Appendix B: Serving Subpoenas: The Memos of Dolores Faconti Scotti
- Appendix C: Who’s Who in the Cast of Witnesses in 1955 and 1958
- Appendix D: An Apology from the Unions
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
