Professional companies / Lansing
BoarsHead Theater
Closed – archive entry · 1966–2009
Mid-Michigan's oldest professional resident theatre: a 250-seat Actors' Equity house in downtown Lansing from 1966 to 2009. It started in a barn and bowed out with a play written by two of its interns.
Quick facts
- Opened
- 1966
- Closed
- 2009
- Seats
- 250
02 / The story of this place
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Founded in 1966, BoarsHead grew into mid-Michigan's oldest professional resident theatre, a 250-seat Actors' Equity house in downtown Lansing. According to its history, it began as a summer stock company in a barn in Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge, founded by John Peakes and Richard Thomsen. It went year-round in 1970 and later moved to Lansing. Falling ticket sales and leadership turmoil took their toll: the final performance, on December 20, 2009, was a play written by two of its interns. In 2010, Lansing Community College's trustees voted 4-2 not to pursue a rescue partnership with the bankrupt company.
- 250-seat Actors' Equity house in downtown Lansing
- Began in a Grand Ledge barn, founded 1966
- Final curtain: December 20, 2009
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BoarsHead gave its last performance in December 2009 and hasn't played since. For professional theatre, check the stages in our guide that are still open.
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