Descripción del sitio
133-139 MacDougal Street. The Provincetown Playhouse was founded in
1916 as a serious amateur theater. Originally located in a rowhouse at
No. 139, it moved in 1918 into a former stable at No. 133 (these were
combined when the property was rebuilt in 1941-42). Eugene O'Neill was
Provincetown's most famous early playwright, but
Edna St. Vincent Millay and
Djuna Barnes
were also associated with the theater. The theater closed in 1929,
ending what some consider the first major Off-Broadway theater
experiment. In a later incarnation the theater housed
Edward Albee's first play
The Zoo Story (1960); Marty Martin's
Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (1979) with Pat Carroll; and
Charles Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (1985).