Summer stock!

""Summer stock" The phrase brings to mind barns, moonlit nights, Judy Garland, boulevard comedies, musty smells, and maybe even mustier performances. Summer stock is a uniquely American phenomenon - theatre performed in bucolic settings during the vacation season. Though thought of as being light entertainment for a summer's evening, the earliest form of summer stock actually involved America's most important playwright: In the early years of the twentieth century, the Provincetown Wharf Theatre on Cape Cod presented the work of a little-known playwright named Eugene O'Neill. While some might…