Little Theatre (Rutgers, Douglass campus)

The Little Theatre sits on the Douglass campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, one of a number of older buildings that anchor the former Douglass College. For decades it served as a teaching and performance space for the women's-college theater program.

Its central figure is Jane Inge, who, according to Rutgers' own account of campus legends, worked as a theater director from the 1920s into the 1950s and lived in an apartment above the Little Theatre until she died. Inge's long tenure tied her closely to the building; generations of students passed through productions she shaped, and the space became identified with her in campus memory.

The theater continued in use after Inge's era and remains a working performance venue connected to the university's arts programs. As Douglass College was folded into the larger Rutgers structure, the Little Theatre stayed in service, and its older fabric — the kind of creaking, much-used campus theater that accumulates stories — kept Inge's name attached to it.

The building is documented in the university's account of haunted Rutgers and in independent campus-history resources, which treat it less as a site of any single tragedy than as a place defined by one person's decades-long association with it.