The Barter Theater Story: Love Made Visible
 


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Dawidziak, Mark, “The Barter Theater Story: Love Made Visible,” Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections, accessed November 21, 2024, https://am.library.appstate.edu/items/show/43714.


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Title

The Barter Theater Story: Love Made Visible

Description

Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by Robert Porterfield, a native Virginian, in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the people of Abingdon, Virginia, and the surrounding area entertainment and a much-needed escape from their Depression-era working lives. It became the State Theatre of Virginia in 1946 and it is where the likes of Gregory Peck, Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, and Hume Cronyn got their starts. Mark Dawidziak, a journalist from New York who spent much of his twenties in Appalachia and grew to admire the theater, tells the improbable story of the Barter Theatre, which remains one of the last year-round professional resident repertory theaters in the country.

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Subject

Barter Theatre (Abingdon, Va.)
Porterfield, Robert, 1905-1971

Creator

Dawidziak, Mark

Publisher

Appalachian Consortium Press

Date

1982

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Language

English

Type

Text

Coverage

Abingdon (Va.)

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https://www.geonames.org/4743815/abingdon.html

Temporal Coverage

1980s

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