When the theater was started, it was our plan to present at least one Shakespearean production each season. By our third season, we realized that financially it was not practical. While Willie is in the Public Domain and therefore there are no royalty payments to be made, the number of high caliber actors that are needed for these large shows, the many costumes needed and the innumerable Actors who very much like to be paid, make the doing of Shakespeare a luxury to be had only every three or four years. We felt the "BoarsHead" name suitable for a Shakespeare-oriented theater because:

• The BoarsHead Tavern is where Falstaff and Prince Hal and all the rowdy gang hung out in Henry IV.
• The family crest for that evil Richard the III fellow was a Boar.
• Richard Burbage, who was the actor for whom Shakespeare wrote the roles of Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Richard III and many others, had for his family crest (i.e. his "badge") a boar's head. English families often took their names from their occupations (Baker, Butler, Mason, Cartwright, etc.) or for the more well-to-do, from their family crest (Lions, Harte,Star, etc.). Thus the actor's surname originally was Boars Badge, and eventually it transmuted into Burbage.

And then, we just liked the sound of it!