The White Barn Theatre was a theater founded in 1947 by actress and producer Lucille Lortel on her property in the Cranbury neighborhood in Norwalk, Connecticut.
The theater premiered numerous plays by established playwrights that often continued to successful Broadway and Off-Broadway runs.
[2] Lortel's aim was to present unusual and experimental plays, promote new playwrights, composers, actors, directors and designers, and to help established artists develop new directions outside of commercial theater.
[3] Plays produced at the White Barn include:[3] Transfers to Off-Broadway: Transfers to Broadway: Writing for The New York Times about an event at the White Barn, Alvin Klein wrote that the August 25, 1996 gala, exhibition opening, stage performances, and reception was "the night of the year... memories are made of this!
[9] In 2005, the State of Connecticut granted $450,000 to the Norwalk Land Conservation Trust to help preserve the property, which contains a pond, fields, wetlands, and woodland.