Main St. 56 Theater

Main St. 56 Theater The mission of Batavia Players Inc.

Proudly bringing entertainment and education to the GLOW Region with unforgettable performances, enriching programs, and opportunities for all ages to shine! 🎭✨ Visit our website to learn more about our shows, classes, and community events. is to bring affordable theatre to the community by making theatre accessible to everyone with a variety of quality productions, to enhance artistic growth of participants and encourage audiences to think, feel and develop an appreciation for theatre.

🎭☀️ Don't Miss Out! ☀️🎭Tomorrow night is the final audition and registration opportunity for our 2026 Summer Theater Cam...
06/01/2026

🎭☀️ Don't Miss Out! ☀️🎭

Tomorrow night is the final audition and registration opportunity for our 2026 Summer Theater Camp!

If your child is between the ages of 5 and 12, loves to sing, dance, act, create, or simply have fun, we'd love to welcome them to another amazing summer at Main St. 56 Theater.

📅 Monday, June 1
🕕 6:00 – 8:30 PM
📍 Main St. 56 Theater at Batavia City Centre

Parents should plan to attend from 6:00–6:30 PM for registration and the initial deposit. After that, campers will audition and participate in theater activities until pickup at 8:30 PM.

✨ Everyone who auditions will be part of the show!
✨ Enrollment is limited to 40 campers.

Camp runs July 6–17 and is always one of the highlights of our summer season. Friendships are made, confidence is built, and memories last a lifetime!

Don't let the curtain close on this opportunity—join us tomorrow night!

For more information and registration form, visit:
🌐 bataviaplayers.org/summer-theater-camp.html

More rehearsal moments from Gypsy, where ambition, pressure, family, and show business survival are already beginning to...
05/23/2026

More rehearsal moments from Gypsy, where ambition, pressure, family, and show business survival are already beginning to take shape onstage.

These early rehearsals are about more than learning blocking. The cast is building relationships, finding the emotional stakes, and starting to uncover the sharp, complicated heart of this story.

Gypsy opens June 12–14 at Main St. 56 Theater.

Photos by Deacon Smith, who plays Tulsa.

Tickets available now at bataviaplayers.org.

First look inside the rehearsal room for Gypsy.Widely regarded as one of the great American musicals, Gypsy follows Rose...
05/21/2026

First look inside the rehearsal room for Gypsy.

Widely regarded as one of the great American musicals, Gypsy follows Rose, Louise, June, and the performers around them through a world of ambition, reinvention, family pressure, and show business survival.

These early rehearsals are where that world starts to take shape: character work, music, staging, and the first layers of a story that is both larger-than-life and deeply human.

Photos taken by Deacon Smith, who plays Tulsa.

Gypsy
June 12–14
Main St. 56 Theater
Tickets available now at bataviaplayers.org.

05/11/2026

And just like that… Happily Never After has taken its final bow.

What started as auditions and a wild idea became a full world filled with villains, mystery, laughter, friendship, late-night rehearsals, paint-covered volunteers, costume chaos, and a cast that gave this show their entire hearts from beginning to end.

Watching these bows was emotional because this group didn’t just put on a show. They built something together. Every rehearsal, every inside joke, every problem solved, every audience gasp and laugh led to this moment.

Thank you to everyone who supported this production, volunteered their time, bought tickets, shared posts, brought friends, and filled our theatre this weekend. Community theatre survives because people continue choosing to care about it. Which is honestly miraculous considering humans could simply stay home and stare blankly at streaming services instead.

To this cast and crew: thank you for trusting this weird little murder mystery and bringing it to life so beautifully.

Until the next story. 🖤

From first auditions to final bows, this cast and crew have poured absolutely everything into Happily Never After.They p...
05/10/2026

From first auditions to final bows, this cast and crew have poured absolutely everything into Happily Never After.

They painted sets, built props, rehearsed for hours, solved problems on the fly, learned lines, fixed costumes, stayed late, laughed constantly, and somehow created a world full of villains that audiences have completely fallen in love with. Theatre remains one of the few places where people voluntarily lose sleep and sanity for applause and fake murder investigations. Deeply concerning behavior, honestly.

What you’ll see onstage this afternoon comes from months of commitment, creativity, and a group of people who genuinely care about each other and the work they’re creating together.

This is your LAST chance to catch Happily Never After at Main St. 56 Theater. Don’t miss the mystery, the comedy, the drama, and this incredible cast one final time.

🖤 Final performance today at 1PM
🎟️ Tickets available now at bataviaplayers.org

“THE BEST SHOW EVER” - Georgia, age 4, immediately after yesterday’s performance.Happily Never After continues TODAY at ...
05/09/2026

“THE BEST SHOW EVER” - Georgia, age 4, immediately after yesterday’s performance.

Happily Never After continues TODAY at Main St. 56 Theater, and our cast of suspiciously lovable villains is ready to welcome you back into the chaos.

There’s romance, betrayal, dramatic entrances, accusations, mystery, comedy, and enough theatrical scheming to make every Disney villain proud. Most importantly, this cast has built something genuinely joyful together, and audiences are feeling it.

Join us for today’s performances and see why audiences are already calling it “the best show ever.”

🖤 Saturday at 4PM
🖤 Sunday at 1PM

🎟️ Tickets available now at bataviaplayers.org

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