THE PLAYWRIGHTS’ COMPANY
. The Play wrights’ Company was one of the more successful of the production companies established in the 1930s. Like its brethren, the American National Theatre and Academy (
ANTA
) and the
Group Theater
, it proposed to establish a protective environment for the production of plays and with the goal of improving the theater. Playwright
Maxwell Anderson
stated that the purpose of The Playwrights’ Company was to make a center for...