During the era 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 of Broadway, by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (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

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Coming February 2019, McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers