1920 Opening night for Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, starring Charles S. Gilpin as a onetime railway porter who goes to Africa and rises to become the corrupt head of a new empire there. It runs 204 performances – first at the Provincetown Players' theatre on Macdougal Street, and later uptown at the Selwyn and Princess Theatres.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on November 1, 2013