Theatre-By-the-Sea is a historic theater and playhouse at Cards Pond Road in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

The Great Depression quickly limited the market for summer camps, so she decided to create jobs by turning the old shingled barn into a theater.

She teamed up with Russian defector and actor Leo Bulgakoff, cockney producer Leslie Spiller, and lighting designer Abe Feder, and the 300-seat barn theater came to life on August 7, 1933.

During World War II, the theater sat mostly unused, but it did became a target for military planes to practice their diving maneuvers, andit sporadically played as a movie house.

Famous stars that played there include Marlon Brando, Carol Channing, Groucho Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, Mae West, Judy Holiday, Shelley Winters, and many others.