The New Theatre. Vol. 1 No. 9. October, 1934.

Contents: Editorials, An Appeal to Playwrights by Virgil Geddes, Film Into Fascism by Bela Belasz, Makes You Weep by Janet Thorne, A Playreader on Playwrights by John Gassner, Theater of Action by Mark Marvin, Revolutionary Ballet Forms by Lincoln Kirstien, Nebuchadnezzar by the Yard by Robert Forsythe, Judgement Day by Ben Blake, Drama in Dixie by Molly Day Thatcher, Why Make-up? by Lewis Leverett, Winesburg Ohio by Lester Glass, From Palmer Raids to Vigilantes by David Platt, The Star-Spangled Dance by Blanche Evan, Voice of the Audience, Building the New Audience by Margaret Larkin, Workers’ Films by Leo T Hurwitz, Shifting Scenes.

The New Theater continued Workers Theater. Workers Theater began in New York City in 1931 as the publication of The Workers Laboratory Theater collective, an agitprop group associated with Workers International Relief, becoming the League of Workers Theaters, section of the International Union of Revolutionary Theater of the Comintern. The rough production values of the first years were replaced by a color magazine as it became primarily associated with the New Theater. It contains a wealth of left cultural history and ideas. Published roughly monthly were Workers Theater from April 1931-July/Aug 1933, New Theater from Sept/Oct 1933-November 1937, New Theater and Film from April and March of 1937, (only two issues).

PDF of full issue: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/workers-theatre/v1n09-oct-1934-New-Theatre.pdf