Provincetown Playhouse | New York University
The Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village. [2011, Dunlap]
Updated on 7 March 2026 | Please don’t spend too much time looking for Macdougal Street in Provincetown. It’s actually 300 miles away. But I couldn’t catalog Provincetown’s built environment without acknowledging this Off-Broadway playhouse, which has introduced generations of theatergoers to the notion that the Cape End was a crucible of the dramatic arts in the early 20th century from which emerged one of America’s greatest playwrights, Eugene O’Neill. The 88-seat theater descends directly from Lewis Wharf, 571 Commercial Street.