Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers in New York By Jordana Cox. Journalism and Democracy. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023; pp. xiii + 168. $90.00 cloth; $29.95 paper. - The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War By James Shapiro. New York: Penguin Press, 2024; pp. xxii + 358. $30.00 cloth - Ryan Claycomb (Theatre Survey, 2025)