In the heart of Greenwich Village, a historic theater emerged as a cradle of creativity and a crucible for groundbreaking theatrical experiments—the Provincetown Playhouse. Established in 1915 in Provincetown, Massachusetts…
Read More…started not in Greenwich Village but in Provincetown, Massachusetts, as its name implies. Provincetown was also the chosen summer home of abstract expressionists, like Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner,…
Read MoreThe original Provincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street. Image via New York Historical Society. On November 22, 1918, the first performances were staged at the Provincetown Playhouse’s new home at…
Read More…Abbott Founded by a group of artists including playwrights, directors, and actors in Provincetown, MA in 1915, the Provincetown Playhouse grew to become more than just a theater; it was…
Read MoreOn November 22, 1918, the first performances were staged at the Village’s renowned Provincetown Playhouse in the theater company’s permanent home. Founded in 1915 in Massachusetts as the Provincetown Players…
Read More…at 133 MacDougal Street, a former bottling plant. Provincetown Playhouse 1955. Source: http://www.provincetownplayhouse.com/history.html The Provincetown Playhouse was the artistic home and birthplace of many of America’s most significant plays and…
Read MoreProvincetown Playhouse 1927 Greenwich Village has been a hot-bed for creative theatrical minds since at least the beginnings of the 20th century. In fact, among the most important of the…
Read More…Wharf in Provincetown, and the Provincetown Players were born. Over the next few years, Glaspell directed and acted in Provincetown Players productions after the group began its New York productions….
Read More…in Susan Glaspell’s Woman’s Honor at 139 MacDougal, the first home of the Provincetown Players Under the guidance of Rauh and her cohorts in the endeavor, the Provincetown Players became…
Read More…a fisherman’s wharf in Provincetown, transformed it into a theater which became known as the Provincetown Playhouse. It would later coalesce into the enormously successful theater of the same name…
Read MoreIn 2008 NYU planned to demolish the Provincetown Playhouse to make way for a new law school building. Located at 133-139 MacDougal Street the Provincetown Playhouse was an incredibly significant…
Read More…a lodger. In 1917, Kemp moved to an apartment on West 10th Street with his wife Mary Pyne, who he met through his involvement with the Provincetown Players. In 1919,…
Read More…diverse, shifting ideologies that together became “modernism.” These included the many individuals involved in the leftist publication The Masses (91 Greenwich Avenue – now demolished), the Provincetown Players located at…
Read More…one-act plays produced by the Provincetown Playhouse, a creative project with homes in both Provincetown and the Village. Biala’s canvases, which her New York Times obituary described as “cryptic and…
Read More…glass buildings and gentrification that was sweeping through parts of the East Village. It is now the location of a TD Bank and luxury condos. Provincetown Playhouse Provincetown Playhouse…
Read More…staged in a sleepy fishing town in the village of Provincetown, Mass., where a group of emerging writers and painters had begun an experimental theater. They staged his play Bound…
Read More…with the Provincetown Players. The group began to realize she was much more than the vapid and shallow girl Reed’s friends disdained. Originally a peripheral figure in the scene was…
Read More…a performance by the Provincetown Players. Two years later, the Provincetown Players performed Millay’s Two Slatterns and a King. Millay performed for the first time with the Provincetown Players in…
Read More…tragedy.” Eugene O’Neill (left) and Berenice Abbott’s photo of the Provincetown Playhouse, both from 1936 O’Neill’s connection to Greenwich Village was pivotal in his early artistic development. After recuperating from…
Read More…Provincetown name and facade, virtually nothing else of the original space remains. Provincetown Playhouse 1955. Source: http://www.provincetownplayhouse.com/history.html Two of our cultural institutions lost to NYU on 14th Street are Luchow’s and…
Read More…at all. Two examples: the post-Stonewall center of LGBT and AIDS activism 186 Spring Street and the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments at 133-139 MacDougal Street (which were of course significant…
Read More…the city. In the 1910s, this block of MacDougal Street became a cultural and social center of bohemian Greenwich Village. Next door at 133 MacDougal Street, the Provincetown Playhouse opened in 1916. Provincetown…
Read More…York University continued to chip away at the South Village’s history in 2008, when it demolished the Provincetown Playhouse & Apartments. The playhouse was the leading avant-garde theater of its…
Read More…look at the “Bohemians” section, which allows you to see the signers grouped by category. This section notes that the Provincetown Players, who made a home at the Provincetown Playhouse…
Read More…was working for the government. (l) Cherry Lane Theatre, (c) Grove Street Theatre, and (r) Provincetown Playhouse in the Village, 1926. Source: MCNY As you can see, his pen and…
Read MoreProvincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street (right) in 1992. Source: Museum of the City of New York. Today marks William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, although some sources say his exact date…
Read More…it here. And I ain’t goin’ anywhere. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Provincetown Playhouse LS: How did you feel when the Provincetown Playhouse went the way of the buffalo?…
Read More…as a preeminent black actor, he was pursued by actors involved in the Provincetown Theatre. It was this long-lasting relationship with Eugene O’Neill and the Theater that would shape Robeson’s career, life,…
Read More…ends. While most famous as a poet, Millay was originally a member of the Provincetown Players, the group which founded the Provincetown Playhouse. Millay moved away from that group in…
Read More…of postwar American art. Known for his energetic, color-infused work, and renowned as a visionary teacher for many other artists—first in his native Germany, then in New York and Provincetown—Hofmann…
Read More…was originally a member of the Provincetown Players, the group which began the Provincetown Playhouse . Millay moved away from that group in 1924 to form her own experimental theater…
Read More…of modern American theater (Provincetown Playhouse). Provincetown Playhouse This rich history has led to New York State finding the entire neighborhood eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic…
Read More…a poet, Millay was originally a member of the Provincetown Players, the group which began the Provincetown Playhouse. Millay moved away from that group in 1924 to form her own…
Read More…and features this lovely image of the Provincetown Playhouse nearby on MacDougal Street. Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street While there is a wealth of information in the book on the…
Read More…when she volunteered at the Hastings Historical Society in her hometown of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, as a high school student. She has worked for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum,…
Read More…much to learn about these incredible trailblazing women. Watch here! Performing the Heart of the Nation: The Provincetown Players — The Provincetown Playhouse staged the works of some of this…
Read More…New York City. (l. to r.) Early 19th c. houses in the Charlton-King-VanDam Historic District; Caffe Reggio; Provincetown Playhouse It’s home to hundreds of 19th and early 20th century buildings,…
Read More…Service in 1919 for questioning about her radical political actions. In 1940, the building housing the Heterodoxy Club was combined with adjacent buildings housing the affiliated Provincetown Playhouse, Washington Square…
Read More…the Square) and the birthplace of modern American drama (Provincetown Playhouse). Provincetown Playhouse photograph by Berenice Abbott Many of the buildings that define the South Village were constructed between the…
Read More…playwright, actress, and Villager Edna St. Vincent Millay. While most famous as a poet, Millay was originally a member of the Provincetown Players, the group that began the Provincetown Playhouse….
Read More…was also one of many prominent playwrights to join GVSHP in opposing NYU’s plans for demolition of the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments. Doric’s legacy taught us not only to stand…
Read More…lost in recent years while the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has sat on its hands, including the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, the Circle in the Square Theater, and the…
Read More…looking from the opposite perspective–northwest from West 3rd Street and Sullivan Street. In it you can see Washington Square Park on the right and the Provincetown Playhouse & Apartments to…
Read More…including in the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, recently demolished by NYU). With an almost singular focus on streetscapes and architecture, her images, like the one below, provide unparalleled glimpses into…
Read More…to preserve our historic theatres, many of which (including the Provincetown Playhouse, Circle in the Square, and the Sullivan Street Playhouse) have been lost in recent years. Do you have…
Read More…Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments. The Circle in the Square Theater. The Sullivan Street Playhouse. The Tunnel Garage. 178 Bleecker Street’s 1861 rowhouse. The original Fat Black Pussycat Theater sign. These…
Read More…an alarming rate (recently, it was announced that MacDougal Street’s Manhattan Theatre Source, home of the beloved Greenwich Village Follies, will be the latest to close its doors). The Provincetown…
Read More…and out of scale/character new development — we’re also thinking of you, Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments and NYU’s giant 20 year expansion plan. At least we’ve made some significant progress…
Read More…by an awning. In 1924, the Provincetown Players, which included the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, founded the Cherry Lane Theatre here, which opened on March 24 of that year….
Read More…treasures, including the Tunnel Garage, Provincetown Playhouse, Circle in the Square Theatre and the Sullivan Street Playhouse. You can read more about the vibrant history of this area by checking…
Read More…as it is, and we have seen historic building after building undermined in recent years. From the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments in its north to the Art Deco Tunnel Garage…
Read More…painters John Sloan (who drew the etching above) and Marcel Duchamp, and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis got into the arch and up the spiral…
Read More…Allan Poe House in the early 2000s. Since then, N.Y.U. has also demolished almost the entire Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, and in the last few years developers have razed 19th-century…
Read More…ahead with full landmarking of the proposed South Village Historic District. 9 Minetta Street The Provincetown Playhouse & Apartments 186 Spring Street Sullivan Street Playhouse Tunnel Garage …
Read More…the early 20th century poet and playwright who lived here from 1923-24. It was at this time that Millay and her fellow Provincetown Players founded the still-operating Cherry Lane Theatre…
Read More…playwright Eugene O’Neill, a member of the nearby Provincetown Playhouse, and painter John Sloan. O’Neill based characters in his play, The Iceman Cometh, on the people he encountered at the…
Read More…for landmark status for the South Village. It hurts to read the names of the places that have already been lost, like the Provincetown Playhouse and Circle in the Square….
Read More…Village sites the LPC refused to consider for landmark designation, such as the Tunnel Garage, Provincetown Playhouse, or Circle in the Square Theater — total destruction. Interior of the Fire…
Read More…building is landmarked now. GVSHP unsuccessfully called for the landmarking of the Provincetown Playhouse, which NYU demolished in 2009. Yet it retained a portion of the famous theater’s façade in…
Read More…Village Historic District, which the LPC allowed to be demolished: 186 Spring Street and the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments. Perhaps they have listened to some of those criticisms, or perhaps…
Read More…and Commerce Streets and features an unusual asymmetrical stepped gable. Millay is one of the Village’s treasures, having been part of the Provincetown Players and having co-founded the Cherry Lane…
Read More…137 MacDougal Street today, next to the second Provincetown Playhouse. For at least a decade, LGBTQ Villagers followed that pattern, patronizing clubs and bars, and attending balls, owned and attended…
Read More…with the Provincetown Players, was a member of the radical feminist Heterodoxy Club, and was openly bisexual, having many affairs with both men and women. She left the Village in…
Read More…with the “Arch Conspirators.” In January of 1917, Duchamp and a group of fellow artists (including poet Gertrude Drick; painter John Sloan; and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner,…
Read More…leatherworkers Walter Humphries in New York and Menalkas Duncan in Provincetown MA. Menalkas was Raymond Duncan’s son. Raymond was the brother of dancer Isadora Duncan, himself a dancer and craftsperson…
Read More…Sloan (who drew the etching above) and Marcel Duchamp, and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis got into the arch and up the spiral staircase through an…
Read More…who began the Provincetown Playhouse. Millay moved away from that group in 1924 to form her own experimental theatre at the Cherry Lane with a group of local artists. The…
Read More…save the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, against NYU’s overwhelming expansion plan, and for landmarking the South Village. To read more about Leguizamo, click here and here. And to see John…
Read More…longer with us. 137 MacDougal was part of four addresses, from 133 to 139, with immense ties to Village culture. Most notable was 139 MacDougal Street, the famed Provincetown Playhouse….
Read More…such as the Provincetown Playhouse and 186 Spring Street, were lost, and many non-contextual buildings replaced historic buildings such as the Sullivan Street Playhouse. Fortunately, we were able to stop further destruction by…
Read More…open atmosphere was cultivated not only by Arthur but by the rest of his family, too. In 1908, he married Blanche Marks – she was involved in the Provincetown Players…
Read More…top of the Arch at night, security may have been a little looser back then. Our dissenters – painters John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp, poet Gertrude Drick, and Provincetown Playhouse actors Alan…
Read More…the Beatles were added in. Bette Davis — had her stage debut in “The Earth Below” in 1929 on the stage of the Provincetown Playhouse. Like Bette Davis, Timothy Carey’s…
Read More…1917, Duchamp and a group of fellow artists (including poet Gertrude Drick; painter John Sloan; and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis) entered the inside of…
Read More…At the time, the Provincetown Playhouse was just one year old. Allen Russell Mann was also known as Forrest Mann, Betty Turner was a few years older than the more famous actress of…
Read More…seek justice, we still need his eloquence and courage. Paul Robeson Taking writing into the public realm happened regularly and in truly groundbreaking ways at the Provincetown Playhouse, now a…
Read More…Greenwich Avenue (where Floyd was the managing editor), Webster Hall, and the Provincetown Playhouse. Though Floyd and Millay didn’t stay together, the relationship undoubtedly remained with Floyd. Dell shares her…
Read More…also home to poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her husband Eugen Jan Boissevain in the 1920s. Millay was a founding member of the Provincetown Players and was a founder…
Read More…Conspirators.” In January of 1917, Duchamp and a group of fellow artists (including poet Gertrude Drick; painter John Sloan; and Provincetown Playhouse actors Russell Mann, Betty Turner, and Charles Ellis) entered…
Read More…Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, which was later demolished by NYU in 2008. Donated by the NY Bound Bookshop (Judith Stonehill and Barbara Cohen, owners) in January 1996. Date 1950 Jan….
Read More…York galleries and at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to his cubist and abstract expressionist vocabulary, Morrison created mosaics with found materials of Provincetown on Cape Cod….
Read More…such issues — as Borough President he supported gutting neighborhood protections for NYU’s massive 2031 Expansion Plan, destroying the historic Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, and allowing the Trump SoHo to be built, in spite…
Read More…Place, meanwhile, is best known for housing George Cram Cook, founder and director of the Provincetown Players, who was largely responsible for elevating the works of Eugene O’Neill and his…
Read More…which revolved around the radical publication The Masses as well as the Heterodoxy Club and the Provincetown Players. 7. Marianne Moore, 14 St. Luke’s Place & 35 West 9th Street Via Wikimedia…
Read More…O’Neill, who co-founded the Provincetown Playhouse Theatre at 133 MacDougal Street (a fragment of which has survived multiple demolitions and alterations by NYU); Oscar Wilde, who stayed at 48 West 11th Street in…
Read More…shared an apartment on Greenwich Avenue with Berenice Abbott, Kenneth Burke, and Malcolm Cowley. She was involved with the Provincetown Players, served as a member of the radical feminist Heterodoxy…
Read More…In the early 19th century, the first known Black theater troupe — the African Grove Theatre — operated at Mercer and Bleecker Streets. Decades later, the Provincetown Playhouse staged its…
Read More…Provincetown Studio, 1945. Louise Bourgeois with her sculpture The Visitors Arrive at the Door, on the roof of her apartment at 142 East 10th Street, ca. 1944. Louise Nevelson, Girl,…
Read More…Ohio in 1918. She quickly made friends with some of those involved with the Provincetown Playhouse and was introduced to the inner circle of artists, dancers, poets, and other intellectuals…
Read More…and opened doors for African Americans. Ida Rauh — Noted suffragist, actress, sculptor, poet, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players. Eleanor Roosevelt — Trailblazing First Lady, crusader for civil and…
Read More…for African Americans. Ida Rauh — Noted suffragist, actress, sculptor, poet, and co-founder of the Provincetown Players. Eleanor Roosevelt — Trailblazing First Lady, crusader for civil and human rights, diplomat,…
Read More…Provincetown Players, which included the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, founded the Cherry Lane Theatre here. They hired scenic designer Cleon Throckmorton to convert the building into a 200-seat auditorium…
Read More…the Provincetown Players, was a member of the radical feminist Heterodoxy Club, and was openly bisexual, having many affairs with both men and women. Patchin Place She moved into 5 Patchin Place in…
Read More…in 1918, meeting and making vital connections with seminal artists of her age. She quickly made friends with some of those involved with the Provincetown Playhouse and was introduced to…
Read More…the Provincetown Players, was a member of the radical feminist Heterodoxy Club, and was openly bisexual, having many affairs with both men and women. Patchin Place She moved into 5 Patchin Place in…
Read More…1923 piece “The Ballad of the Harp Weaver” earned her a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Millay was also a playwright: the Provincetown Players performed two of her theatrical works, Aria…
Read More…O’Neill, who co-founded the Provincetown Playhouse Theatre at 133 MacDougal Street (a fragment of which has survived multiple demolitions and alterations by NYU); Oscar Wilde, who stayed at 48 West 11th Street in…
Read More…Burke, and Malcolm Cowley. She was involved with the Provincetown Players, served as a member of the radical feminist Heterodoxy Club, reported for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and was openly bisexual….
Read More…of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute in Chicago, Provincetown Art Gallery in Massachusetts, and more. Berenice Abbott, portrait of Symeon Shimin,…
Read More…of the Adirondacks or swimming in the crystal-clear waters of Provincetown. Whether on land or sea, Mac is always up for adventure, making him the perfect balance of city sophistication…
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