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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Provincetown Players [and Provincetown Playhouse ] , group of American actors and playwrights founded in 1916 by Susan Glaspell and others, whose ardent experimentalism gave Eugene O'Neill the opportunities he needed at a vital stage in his career. Their first season, at the Wharf Theatre, Providence, RI, a converted fishing shack, included the first of his plays to be staged, the one-act Bound East for Cardiff , as well as new works by Susan Glaspell, Edna St Vincent Millay, Laurence Langner , and others. Later in the year the group moved to the Playwrights' Theatre in Greenwich ...

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