Provincetown Playhouse

By decade62 productions across 3 decades

1. 1920s 36
2. 1930s 25
3. 1940s 1

Counted from the productions we hold, which are Broadway and a partial West End. A quiet decade here can mean a dark theatre and can mean a gap in the record.

Longest runs hereby performances

1920	The Emperor Jones November 1, 1920	204 perf.
1926	In Abraham's Bosom December 30, 1926 · Jasper Deeter	200 perf.
1931	Precedent April 14, 1931 · Walter Hart	184 perf.
1924	Fashion February 3, 1924	152 perf.
1922	The God of Vengeance December 20, 1922 · Rudolph Schildkraut	133 perf.
1924	S. S. Glencairn November 3, 1924	105 perf.
1924	Patience December 29, 1924 · Robert Edmond Jones	104 perf.
1929	S. S. Glencairn January 9, 1929 · E. J. Ballantine	90 perf.

Ranked among the 59 runs here that carry a performance count. 3 do not, so a longer run may be sitting outside this table with an empty field.

Everything that played here62 productions

1920	Exorcism March 26, 1920 · Original
1920	The Emperor Jones November 1, 1920 · Original	204 perf.
1921	The Hand of the Potter December 5, 1921 · Original	21 perf.
1921	The Verge November 14, 1921 · Original	38 perf.
1922	Chains of Dew April 27, 1922 · Original	16 perf.
1922	Mr. Faust January 30, 1922 · Original	15 perf.
1922	The God of Vengeance December 20, 1922 · Original	133 perf.
1922	The Hairy Ape March 9, 1922 · Original
1923	Sandro Botticelli March 26, 1923 · Original	24 perf.
1923	Sun-Up May 25, 1923 · Original	28 perf.
1923	Sylvia April 25, 1923 · Original	13 perf.
1924	All God's Chillun Got Wings May 15, 1924 · Original
1924	Fashion February 3, 1924 · Revival	152 perf.
1924	George Dandin April 6, 1924 · Original	33 perf.
1924	Patience December 29, 1924 · Revival	104 perf.
1924	S. S. Glencairn November 3, 1924 · Original	105 perf.
1924	The Crime in the Whistler Room October 12, 1924 · Original	25 perf.
1925	Adam Solitaire November 6, 1925 · Original	17 perf.
1925	Beyond January 26, 1925 · Original	16 perf.
1925	Michel Auclair March 4, 1925 · Original	19 perf.
1925	Ruint April 7, 1925 · Original	30 perf.
1925	The Man Who Never Died December 12, 1925 · Original	22 perf.
1926	In Abraham's Bosom December 30, 1926 · Original	200 perf.
1926	Princess Turandot November 12, 1926 · Original	26 perf.
1926	The Dream Play January 20, 1926 · Original	27 perf.
1926	The Emperor Jones February 16, 1926 · Revival	35 perf.
1927	In Abraham's Bosom September 6, 1927 · Revival	88 perf.
1927	Rapid Transit April 7, 1927 · Original	20 perf.
1927	The Prisoner December 28, 1927 · Original	37 perf.
1928	Him April 18, 1928 · Original	27 perf.
1928	Hot Pan February 15, 1928 · Original	19 perf.
1928	Singing Jailbirds December 6, 1928 · Original	79 perf.
1928	The Final Balance October 30, 1928 · Original	28 perf.
1929	Before Breakfast March 5, 1929 · Original	27 perf.
1929	Fiesta September 16, 1929 · Original	39 perf.
1929	S. S. Glencairn January 9, 1929 · Revival	90 perf.
1931	Coastwise November 30, 1931 · Original	37 perf.
1931	No More Frontier October 22, 1931 · Original	28 perf.
1931	Precedent April 14, 1931 · Original	184 perf.
1931	The Second Comin' December 8, 1931 · Original	8 perf.
1932	Black Souls March 30, 1932 · Original	13 perf.
1932	Blue Monday June 2, 1932 · Original	20 perf.
1932	Merry-Go-Round April 22, 1932 · Revival	48 perf.
1932	Moral Fabric November 21, 1932 · Original	32 perf.
1932	Park Avenue, Ltd. March 3, 1932 · Original	10 perf.
1932	The Devil's Little Game August 1, 1932 · Original	8 perf.
1932	The Lady Remembers May 10, 1932 · Original	10 perf.
1932	The Lingering Past June 29, 1932 · Original	13 perf.
1932	The Marriage of Cana February 2, 1932 · Original	2 perf.
1933	Black Diamond February 23, 1933 · Original	16 perf.
1933	Fantasia January 3, 1933 · Original	7 perf.
1933	One Wife or Another February 6, 1933 · Original	3 perf.
1933	Raw Meat March 22, 1933 · Original	1 perf.
1933	The Mountain September 11, 1933 · Original	4 perf.
1934	Green Stick October 9, 1934 · Original	16 perf.
1934	Wrong Number March 13, 1934 · Original	12 perf.
1935	Jackson White April 20, 1935 · Original	17 perf.
1935	Provincetown Follies November 3, 1935 · Original	63 perf.
1937	Tobias and the Angel April 28, 1937 · Original	22 perf.
1939	Cure For Matrimony October 25, 1939 · Original	25 perf.
1939	Steel December 19, 1939 · Revival	9 perf.
1940	One Act Variety Theatre March 19, 1940 · Original	38 perf.

What this page does not know

• What played here before Broadway record-keeping starts, and what played here outside it: concerts, benefits, film runs, anything that was not a listed production.
• How long 3 of these runs lasted. We don't have a performance count.
• When 53 of these runs ended. They carry an opening date and no closing date, and they are old enough that they certainly closed. Nobody wrote down the date.
• When the building opened.
• How many seats.
• Who built it.
• Any photograph of the building.