The
Washington Square Players was a
New York theatrical production company founded in 1914. Its debut production in 1915 was a collection of one-act plays, some of which had been written for the event. In 1916 the troupe started presenting full-length plays, among which were
Shaw's
Mrs Warren's Profession and translations of
Chekhov's
The Seagull and
Ibsen's
Ghosts. That same year it moved into the Comedy Theatre, where it subsequently performed
Eugene O'Neill's one-act play
In the Zone in 1917. In 1918 the company produced
Elmer Rice's
The Home of the Free. In the same year, the Washington Square Players disbanded, but its work served as the roots for the foundation of the
Theatre Guild in 1919.