Provincetown Players
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Provincetown Players. Founded in 1915 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, by a group of theatre lovers headed by Susan
Glaspell and her husband, George Cram
Cook, it gave its first performances that same summer in a small theatre on a wharf in the city. Robert Edmond
Jones designed the sets. The second summer the program was much enlarged and included two plays,
Bound East for Cardiff and
Thirst by Eugene
O'Neill. The season was so successful that the group took over a small playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village (later moving to another one) and began the first of over a decade of seasons that would continue until 1929, with a major reorganization after 1921 that left Jones, O'Neill, and Kenneth
MacGowan in charge. At first the company offered largely one‐act plays but later included full‐length works. Among the major or interesting works offered by the group were John Reed's
Freedom (1916); O'Neill's
Before Breakfast (1916),
Fog (1917),
The Sniper (1917),
The Long Voyage Home (1917), and
Ile (1917); Maxwell Bodenheim's
Knot Holes (1917), written wit William Saphir, and
The Gentle Furniture Shop (1917); O'Neill's
The Rope (1918),
Where the Cross Is Made (1918),
The Moon of the Caribbees (1918), and
The Dreamy Kid (1919); Edna St. Vincent Millay's
Aria da Capo (1919); Edna
Ferber's
The Eldest (1920); O'Neill's
Exorcism (1920),
The Emperor Jones (1920), and
Diff'rent (1920); Glaspell's
Inheritors (1921); O'Neill's
The Hairy Ape (1922); a revival of
Fashion (1924); O'Neill's
The Ancient Mariner (1924) and
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924); Edmund Wilson's
The Crime in the Whistler Room (1924); O'Neill's
Desire under the Elms (1924); and Paul
Green's
In Abraham's Bosom (1926). During its heyday the troupe ran the Greenwich Village Theatre as well as the
PROVINCETOWN PLAYHOUSE. In their excellent history of the company,
The Provincetown: A Story of a Theatre (1931), Helen Deutsch and Stella Hanau concluded simply, “The Provincetown was more a laboratory than a theater. . . . To it belonged the task of developing playwrights, of taking risks with unknown actors and designers.”
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PROVINCETOWN'S TEAMS FIND GAY TAUNTS ROUTINE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/11/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...quietly by the Fishermen players, best deflected with retorts...rhetoric deemed hate speech, Provincetown officials are increasingly...allegedly hurled gay epithets at Provincetown batters, Provincetown administrators insisted Nantucket...
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Brenda Murphy. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Comparative Drama; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Brenda Murphy. The Provincetown Players and the Culture of...exploration of the Provincetown Players and the culture...very beginning of the Players" (41), and continuing...reminds us that the Provincetown's founding membership...
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Provincetown percolates in winter, too
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...writers stay here to work in Provincetown over the winter," she says...managing director of the New Provincetown Players, finds winter and spring a...shop stay open all week. The Provincetown Book Shop, which has been...
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Provincetown stable, 'less edgy'.
Newspaper article from: Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA); 2/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...well as from focus groups of Provincetown businesses, cultural organizations...agents, had some good news: Provincetown is still a player in the world of tourism...blamed any slowdown in Provincetown's winter economy on the...
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The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Theatre History Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity...the scholarship on the Provincetown Players. By tying the...personal memoir, The Provincetown, is not a "[m]ajor...claiming that the Players "preferred to call...
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PROVINCETOWN BLAZE LEAVES $6M DAMAGE LOCALS' EFFORT COULDN'T SAVE LANDMARK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/12/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Larry Collins, 52, a Provincetown artist who was having dinner...Firefighters were hampered by Provincetown's narrow streets and closely...stopped, said Keith Bergman, Provincetown's town manager, "the...Susan Goldberg, 42, a bass player. She said locals would surely...
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AFTER THE EMPEROR: INTERRACIAL COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN PROVINCETOWN ALUMNI AND BLACK THEATRE ARTISTS C.1924-1946
Magazine article from: The Journal of American Drama and Theatre; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Provincetown Players' production of Eugene O'Neill...white artistic experimenters of the Provincetown Players tried to shift the debates...sociological to the aesthetic (as Provincetown historians Helen Deutsch and Stella...
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Provincetown, Mass., Proposal Seeks to Use Tourism Money to Fill Budget Gaps.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 3/1/2003; 700+ words
; ...activities and projects that fuel Provincetown's tourist-driven economy...owner, acknowledged that Provincetown's population swells in...Patricia Fitzpatrick, Provincetown's tourism director, is...work together and be a team player," she said. However...
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IN PROVINCETOWN, THE BOSTONIANS WEAR TIES AND ROSIE IS RIVETING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL, AND...PUBLISHER OF THE PROVINCETOWN BANNER. . . . IT WAS...SPENT THE WEEKEND IN PROVINCETOWN TAKING IN THE LOCAL...LAST WEEK: PATRIOTS PLAYER LARRY IZZO, AS WELL...
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A fecund harbor for Tennessee Williams: there are revelations aplenty at a Provincetown festival.(CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK)
Magazine article from: American Theatre; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...far as theatre in concerned, Provincetown is viewed as a trashily endearing...America--it was here that the Provincetown Players nurtured self-consciously...summers, the Tennessee Williams Provincetown Festival, which its curator...
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Provincetown Players
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS PROVINCETOWN PLAYERS was an avant-garde theater...Provincetown, The Provincetown Players, and the Discovery of Eugene O...xF3; ly. Jig Cook and the Provincetown Players: Theatre in Ferment. Amherst...
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Provincetown Players, The
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Provincetown Players, The, little‐theater...artists, first drawn together at Provincetown, Mass. (1915). Their association...Greenwich Village Theatre. By 1925 the Provincetown productions had included 93 new plays...
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Provincetown Playhouse
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Provincetown Playhouse. See Provincetown Players .
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Cape Cod
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...voyage for ships sailing around Provincetown from Boston to New York City...unique scenery of the Cape. Provincetown had a bohemian summer community...garde theater company, the Provincetown Players, in 1915. Summer theaters...
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Reed, John 1887-1920
Book article from: American Decades
...question. Russia, Portland, Provincetown In 1914 Reed went to Europe with...their time in Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, where Reed had helped to found the Provincetown Players. Revolution In 1917, as revolutionaries...
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