A report on Greenwich Village and Provincetown Players

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915
MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O'Neill on the ladder, Cook to the far right.
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
Scene in All God's Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair's hand, attracting national interest.
The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets
Susan Glaspell, playwright and one of the founders of the Provincetown Players.
Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets
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
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.
Blue Note Jazz Club
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
NYPD 6th Precinct
West Village Post Office
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr.
Hank Greenberg
Emma Stone
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.

- Provincetown Players

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

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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American lyrical poet and playwright.

American lyrical poet and playwright.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Edna St. Vincent Millay in Mamaroneck, New York, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.
Edna St. Vincent Millay's home in 1923–24 at 75 1⁄2 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village (2013 photo)
Main house at Steepletop, where Millay spent the last 25 years of her life
Edna St. Vincent Millay's (and her husband's) gravestone at Steepletop
Edna St. Vincent Millay by pond, 1914, by Arnold Genthe.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, c. 1920.
Undated Edna St. Vincent Millay Portrait

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.

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

The entrance to the Provincetown Playhouse in 2015

Provincetown Playhouse

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The entrance to the Provincetown Playhouse in 2015

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.

Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton

Eugene O'Neill

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American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature.

American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature.

Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton
Portrait of O'Neill as a child, c. 1893
Birthplace plaque (1500 Broadway, northeast corner of 43rd and Broadway, New York City), presented by Circle in the Square.
O'Neill's first play, Bound East for Cardiff, premiered at this theatre on a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Time Cover, March 17, 1924
O'Neill in the mid-1930s. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936
The Chaplins and six of their eight children in 1961. From left to right: Geraldine, Eugene, Victoria, Chaplin, Oona O'Neill, Annette, Josephine and Michael.
Grave of Eugene O'Neill
O'Neill stamp issued in 1967
Statue of O'Neil as a boy, sitting and writing, overlooking the harbor of New London, Connecticut

During the 1910s O'Neill was a regular on the Greenwich Village literary scene, where he also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party of America founder John Reed.

His involvement with the Provincetown Players began in mid-1916.

Floyd Dell

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American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet.

American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet.

Playbook for The Angel Intrudes (1917).

Dell wrote extensively on controversial social issues of the early 20th century, and played a major part in the political and social movements originating in New York City's Greenwich Village during the 1910s & 1920s.

Dell joined fellow Davenporters Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook as a member of the Provincetown Players and his play King Arthur's Socks was the first performed by that historic theater group.