"New York 1937. Art and politics collide when the government padlocks the doors of the theatre on the opening of Marc Blitzstein's, "The Cradle Will Rock". The director, Orson Welles, marches the actors and most of the audience down Seventh Avenue and finds another theatre, and in one brilliant stroke makes theatre history. As much a play for our times as it is about an historical event."--BOOK JACKET.