The Verge
The Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village, close by Washington Square Park, was probably the most important progressive theater in New York in the early 1920s, as witness two plays currently being revived Off Broadway, a designation that didn’t exist back then. The Irish Rep is doing a physically striking mounting of Eugene O’Neill’s "The Hairy Ape," which opened at the Provincetown in March 1922. Down at…