The
Stony Creek Puppet House is a theater on the shoreline of the
Stony Creek section of
Branford, Connecticut, near
New Haven, a stone's throw away from the famed
Thimble Islands. Built in 1903 as a movie theater, it became the home for community theater and summer stock productions.
Orson Welles staged his short-lived stage production,
Too Much Johnson, at The Stony Creek Theatre in 1938. After operating as a parachute factory during World War II, it became a
puppet theater. The building is a Connecticut Historical Landmark that awaits renovation and restoration.