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The Playwrights’ Company

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...

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