A report on Provincetown Players, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Greenwich Village

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915

Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933

Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O'Neill on the ladder, Cook to the far right.

Edna St. Vincent Millay in Mamaroneck, New York, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.

Scene in All God's Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair's hand, attracting national interest.

Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in 1923–24 at 75 1⁄2 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village (2013 photo)

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

Susan Glaspell, playwright and one of the founders of the Provincetown Players.

Main house at Steepletop, where Millay spent the last 25 years of her life

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Edna St. Vincent Millay's (and her husband's) gravestone at Steepletop

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Edna St. Vincent Millay by pond, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Undated Edna St. Vincent Millay Portrait

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Provincetown, Massachusetts had become a popular summer outpost for numerous artists and writers, bohemian residents from Greenwich Village, New York.

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In the 1917–18 season Edna St. Vincent Millay and her sister Norma joined the Players as actors.

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She lived in a number of places in Greenwich Village, including a house owned by the Cherry Lane Theatre and 75½ Bedford Street, renowned for being the narrowest in New York City.

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While establishing her career as a poet, Millay initially worked with the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street and the Theatre Guild.

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A landmark in Greenwich Village's cultural landscape, it was built as a farm silo in 1817, and also served as a tobacco warehouse and box factory before Edna St. Vincent Millay and other members of the Provincetown Players converted the structure into a theatre they christened the Cherry Lane Playhouse, which opened on March 24, 1924, with the play The Man Who Ate the Popomack.

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The Provincetown Playhouse is a historic theatre at 133 MacDougal Street between West 3rd and West 4th Streets in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

It is named for the Provincetown Players, who converted the former stable and wine-bottling plant into a theater in 1918.

The original Players included George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Eugene O'Neill, John Reed, Louise Bryant, Floyd Dell, Ida Rauh, Edna St. Vincent Millay and Djuna Barnes.