It Can't Happen Here, Des Moines, IA, 1937. 'The Federal Theater presents Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't Happen Here" - President '. Play adapted from a dystopian political novel about the rise of a US dictator, by Sinclair Lewis. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the Works Progress Administration in 1935, was designed to conserve and develop the skills of theater workers, re-employ them on public relief, and to bring theater to thousands in the United States who had never before seen live theatrical performances.

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