Summer Theater

Location: 3650 63rd Street, Saugatuck Township
Date: 1954

For many years one of the best known summer stock theaters in the Midwest, the Red Barn was founded by Jim Webster and the “Summer Players” which started out in the high school in 1948, moved to a barn in Douglas (now part of Petter Gallery), and then to this barn at the Belvedere farm. In 1958 the theater advertised 12 weeks of summer stock, “all Broadway Hits” played by a professional New York cast. By 1962 it had expanded its seating to accommodate an audience of 500. It officially closed its doors in 2002 but recently reopened as a community arts center.