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A Leisure Time Show, Watertown, MA, 1938. 'The Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts Divisin of Education and Recreation Presents - A Leisure Time Show - at the Watertown Senior High School...The General Public is Invited - No Admission Charge'. The Federal Theatre Project, created by the U.S. 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.