Blue Barn Theatre

The Blue Barn Theatre, located at 1106 S. 10th Street in Omaha, Nebraska, is a nationally recognized theater.

Begun in 1989, the theater was founded by a group of recent graduates from the theater program at Purchase College: Kevin Lawler, Hughston Walkinshaw, and Nils Haaland. The theater was started at the invite of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, with whom the theater initially shared a space.

The Blue Barn has primarily presented the works of contemporary American playwrights, including David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Christopher Durang, and Lanford Wilson. The theater has also acted as a showcase for Omaha-based playwrights, such as Tim Siragusa, Robert Vivian, and Max Sparber. The theater often shares castmembers with Omaha-born filmmaker Alexander Payne, who has been a longtime supporter of the theater, volunteering to be interviewed on the stage of the Omaha Community Playhouse by theater cofounder Hughston Walkinshaw as a fundraising effort in 2002.

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Official website

City of Omaha

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Coordinates: 41°15′14″N 95°55′51″W / 41.25389°N 95.93083°W / 41.25389; -95.93083

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Blue Barn Theatre

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