Stormfield Theatre

Phone: 517-488-8450

Mission Statement

Founded in August 2009, Stormfield Theatre is a not-for-profit professional 
theatre dedicating itself to living playwrights and their works, as well as the development of a culturally diverse community of theatre artists and audiences. Central to this mission are three core values: creating intimate performances where audiences come face to face with the powerful and relevant stories of our times, original educational programming, and strong ties to our community. Stormfield will continue to expand to become the premiere cultural ambassador for Lansing, Michigan’s capital city.

History

Stormfield is a strikingly appropriate name for a theatre. After all, when you go to a play, you sit in an intimate group and share the turbulence and exhilaration of a storm. As such, Stormfield draws its name from three sources – a theatre company that was an important part of Chicago’s theatre renaissance, a famous story by Mark Twain, and the home Twain built for himself in Redding, Connecticut.

The Stormfield Theatre of Chicago was the brainchild of Terry McCabe, an established Chicago theatre artist, teacher, and author. Dedicated to new works, its physical dissolution in the 1980s was mourned by the community of Chicago playwrights. However its spirit lives on in the minds and hearts of many.

Written by Mark Twain and published in 1909, Captain Stormfield’s Visit to 
Heaven combines the satiric and the tall tale to describe Captain Elias Stormfield’s cosmic and illuminating flight to heaven. Written some years before it was finally published, it was one of the author’s favorites.