This shoddy looking place on a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts (population in 1920 = 4,246) was the site of the production of Eugene O'Neill's first full play, Bound East for Cardiff. It apparently wasn't an astounding success. It ran for two nights, and there was only one copy of the full script. After its performance in Provincetown, a small theater in Baltimore offered O'Neill $15 for the rights to produce it. It was the first money O'Neill had received for his writing. He had to quickly type another copy of the script for the Baltimore theater company. (More details available HERE.)
Here's the rest of EO's canon:
Early Plays
Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
In the Zone (1917)
The Long Voyage Home (1917)
Ile (1917)
The Moon of the Caribbees (1918)
The Moon of the Caribbees (1918)
Major Works
Beyond the Horizon (1918)
The Emperor Jones (1920)
Anna Christie (1920)
The Hairy Ape (1921)
All God's Chillun Got Wings (1923)
Desire Under the Elms (1924)
Marco Millions (1924)
The Great God Brown (1925)
Lazarus Laughed (1926)
Strange Interlude (1927)
Dynamo (1929)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)...but this is a cycle of 3
plays
Ah, Wilderness! (1933)
Days Without End (1934)
The Iceman Cometh (1940)
Hughie (1941)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941)
A Touch of the Poet (1942)
A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943)
One-Act Plays
Recklessness (1913)
Warnings (1913)
Fog (1914)
Abortion (1914)
The Movie Man (1914)
Servitude (1914)
The Web (1914)
Thirst (1914)
The Sniper (1915)
Before Breakfast (1916)
The Rope (1918)
Where the Cross Is Made (1918)
In the Zone (1919)
Additional Plays
Now I Ask You (1916)
Gold (1920)
Chris Christophersen (1920)
The Straw (1921)
The Fountain (1923)
Welded (1924)
The Ancient Mariner (1925)
The First Man (1922)
S.S. Glencairn (1920)
Exorcism (1920)
Unfinished Works
More Stately Mansions (unfinished, 1939)
The Calms of Capricorn (unfinished, 1941)
The Last Conquest (unfinished, 1941)
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (unfinished, 1941)
51 plays total
ADDENDUM: Amazon has an e-collection of Eugene O'Neill plays that (1) is really cheap ($1.99) and (2) includes some titles I didn't see elsewhere...to wit:
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