... . The Living Newspaper, an innovation of Elmer Rice, was a dramatic form: "a committed documentary that informed the audience of the size, nature, and origin of a social problem, and then called for specific action to solve it. Living newspapers were written on such varied topics as housing, health, cooperatives, natural resources, labor unions, Negroes, the movies, and public utilities" (Zandee). Three important ... known black actress, and John Houseman, a theatre producer who got Orson Welles to direct and act with the unit. The most important theatre production that came out of this u...

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