A History of Theater on Cape Cod

Theater on the Cape began in 1916 when a group of artists and writers in Provincetown mounted a production of a one—act play, Bound East for Cardiff, by a little—known playwright, Eugene O’Neill. They staged the play in a rickety old theater on a wharf in what was then little more than a sleepy fishing village. From that artists’ colony—and others like it across the Cape and Islands—it grew into the constantly expanding theater universe it is today. The theatrical descendants of O’Neill and...