
1936
Manhattan: MacDougal Street - Stone Avenue.
Provincetown Playhouse 133 Macdougal Street, Manhattan Federal Art Project "Changing New York" Berenice Abbott, photographer [Note: negative at Museum of the City of New York] Code III D-1 Dec. 29, 1936 p.104, Changing New York ... Organized at Provincetown in 1915, the Prov. Players found themselves a theater at 139 MacDougal St. in 1916. Moved to 133 in 1918 and remodelled same. Closed in 1922, the theatre reopened in 1923, changed management in 1925 and ran until the "crash." Dark from 1930-1936, it was reopened this time to house the Studio Theatre of the Community Drama Unit of the WPA Federal Theatre.
Photo from the New York Public Library - Milstein Collection











