PREVIEW: FEDERAL THEATER: SINCLAIR LEWIS: Conversation with Professor James Shapiro of Columbia University regarding his new work, THE PLAYBOOK, telling the vast romantic tale of the five years of the Federal Theater during the Great Depression -- and the

PREVIEW: FEDERAL THEATER: SINCLAIR LEWIS: Conversation with Professor James Shapiro of Columbia University regarding his new work, THE PLAYBOOK, telling the vast romantic tale of the five years of the Federal Theater during the Great Depression -- and the anecdotes are endlessly rich, such as this story of Sinclair Lewis preparing his novel IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE, for the stage across America. MORE TONIGHT and next week.

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