Review: The High-Energy History of "It CAN Happen Here!"
It CAN Happen Here!: Hallie Flanagan & the Federal Theatre Project Written by Melody Brooks, Katrin Hilbe, Tess Howsam, Daniel Jacobs, and Susan Quinn Directed by Katrin Hilbe Presented by New Perspectives Theatre Company and Culture Lab LIC at Culture Lab LIC 5-25 46th Ave, Queens, NYC March 6-30, 2025 It CAN Happen Here!: Hallie Flanagan and the Federal Theatre Project. Photo by Al Foote III. Faced with the current, billionaire-led dismantling of the federal government in the United States, it's hard–well, harder–to imagine the level of robust financial support for the theater arts at the national level that is detailed in It CAN Happen Here!: Hallie Flanagan & the Federal Theatre Project . It's much less difficult to imagine the acts of censorship and accusations of subversion, communism, and race-baiting leveled at theater artists by grandstanding politicians out to destroy that very support. At least in the political landscape of the 1930s, as we learn at one po...