Plays for Living-Social Problems On Stage

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Mod: Ted Thackrey; Guests: Ethel Barrymore Colt, actress, Nora Sterling, actress and dramatist, Dr. Salvatore DeMichael, Regional Director of Rehabilitation Services of the Dept. of Health & Welfare, and Simon Podair, Chief of General Disease Control at the NYC Department of Health

The discussion takes a look at "Plays for Living" and how they use drama to work out or confront social problems before public groups. Barrymore talks about the group's beginnings as a project during World War II.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

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