Provincetown Players
History of ProvinceTown Players
The original Provincetown Theater
The Provincetown Players was a theater company located in Provincetown, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, and famous for producing the plays of Americanplaywright Eugene O’Neill and Susan Glaspell. It was also associated with the work of Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Carlos Williams, e. e. cummings, Edmund Wilson and Djuna Barnes.
Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O’Neill to the far left.
In 1916, the company produced O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff. It disbanded in 1929.
Scene in All God’s Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair‘s hand and created a national uproar.
