Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn NJ
2017

https://papermill.org/about-us/history/

Paper Mill Playhouse is a regional theater with approximately 1200 seats, located in Millburn, New Jersey on the Rahway River. Due to its relatively close location to Manhattan, it draws from the pool of actors who live in New York City. Paper Mill was officially designated as the "State Theater of New Jersey".

Paper Mill Playhouse acknowledges that our theater stands on the traditional land of the Lenni-Lenape. We honor the land and the Indigenous people who inhabited it for thousands of years before European settlers arrived.

In 1795, Samuel Campbell opened The Thistle Paper Mill on the site of the current Paper Mill Playhouse. Destroyed by a fire in the 1860’s, it was rebuilt and continued to operate for another 35 years. In 1934, Antoinette Scudder purchased the then-derelict paper mill with the vision of creating a permanent repertory theater.