Title 36 — Patriotic and National ObservancesRelease 119-73

§21902 Purposes

Title 36 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Patriotic and National Organizations › Part Part B— - Organizations › Chapter CHAPTER 219— - THE AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER AND ACADEMY › § 21902

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The corporation must put on excellent plays and encourage people to see drama as both live theater and written literature that can be enjoyed onstage and in study. It must also promote drama across the United States by helping produce top plays cheaply, support drama education in schools and colleges, and run a theater school inside the National Academy.

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Title 36, §21902

Patriotic and National Observances — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purposes of the corporation include—

(1)the presentation of theatrical productions of the highest type;

(2)the stimulation of public interest in the drama as an art belonging both to the theater and to literature and to be enjoyed both on the stage and in the study;

(3)the advancement of interest in the drama throughout the United States by furthering the production of the best plays, interpreted by the best actors at a minimum cost;

(4)the further development of the study of drama of the present and past in our universities, colleges, schools, and elsewhere; and

(5)the sponsoring, encouraging, and developing of the art and technique of the theater through a school within the National Academy.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2190236:3302 (last sentence).July 5, 1935, ch. 373, § 2 (last sentence), 49 Stat. 458. Before clause (1), the word “include” is substituted for “shall embrace” for consistency in the revised title. In clause (3), the words “of America” are omitted as unnecessary.

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Citation

36 U.S.C. § 21902

Title 36 — Patriotic and National Observances

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73