The Sarasota Players

08/29/2026

Audiences are LOVING Bat Boy the Musical! 👏 Tonight has less than 20 tickets remaining. You only have nine opportunities left to see it. The cast is phenomenal and the twists and turns that happen in this story will have you SHOOK. Come see what all the fuss is about. Come support local, live theatre. Come support rarely produced works. You’ll be so happy you did. 🦇

🎟️ theplayers.org | 941-365-2494.
📸 Amanda Iglesias

08/28/2026

Director and Adapter, Ren Pearson is excited to announce his cast of DRACULA! Join us every Saturday & Sunday through October in our intimate Players Studio Blackbox. Who’s ready for spooky season? 🎃👻

MEET THE CAST:
Dracula … Amanda Heisey
Van Helsing … Martin Nicholas
Lucy Westenra … Ella Aleksandrowski
Mina Murray … Valerie Rozon
Jonathan Harker … Tom Horton
Renfield … Kelly Leissler & Steve O’Dea
Dr. Jacqueline Seward … Lucy Manuel
Quincey P. Morris … Vincent Pearson
Ensemble: Louis Valery, Olivia Baylou, Rachel Weaver, Andrew Contillo, Cat Savitts

UNDERSTUDIES & SWINGS:
Dracula U/S … Cat Savitts
Mina & Seward U/S … Rachel Weaver
Lucy U/S … Olivia Baylou
Jonathan & Quincey U/S … Louis Valery
Swing … Andrew Contillo

Tickets are available at theplayers.org or by calling 941-365-2494. We are COUNT-ing down the days! 🧛🏼‍♂️

08/27/2026

Tonight’s the night! 🩷💚 BAT BOY is officially OPEN and running through September 6. From the team that brought you last summer’s sold-out run of CABARET, you are sure to fall in love with this rarely produced, overwhelmingly endearing, and high energy tale about a half boy / half bat creature found in a cave in Hope Falls, West Virginia!

This cast will knock your socks off. Come in ready for the best time. Happy Opening, BAT BOY! Tickets are available at theplayers.org | 941-365-2494. We can’t wait for audiences to see this one. 🐮⚡️🦇

📸 Amanda Iglesias

08/26/2026

Did you catch our lovely Bat Boy on Suncoast View? Well, check out this amazing interview and a performance that is rumored to have made Linda Carson cry. The show opens TOMORROW!

Show stars actor Chris Cordero as half-boy, half-bat creature

08/26/2026

It’s Preview Night for BAT BOY the Musical! 🦇 Do you have your tickets yet? Don’t wait! Visit theplayers.org or call our friendly box office team at 941-365-2494 and claim your seats before it’s too late.

Before tomorrow’s opening, we have a free pre-show reception featuring snacks, drinks, performances, and a conversation with Justin Greer, who played Bat Boy in the West Coast Premiere. After the show, we have our opening night champagne toast. Come be part of the fun!

This cast is incredible. Don’t miss this ridiculously fun piece of rarely produced theatre. 🩸

📸 Amanda Iglesias

08/25/2026

If you have tickets for opening night (or if you're planning on attending opening night), you are invited to our "Before the Applause" reception from 6:15-7:15pm, right across the hall in Arts Advocates. There will be snacks, drinks, previews of upcoming shows AND a special guest. Justin Greer will be joining us! He was part of the West Coast premiere of Bat Boy the Musical and has some wonderful theatre insight for us!

MEET JUSTIN!

JUSTIN GOMLAK GREER is a veteran of nine Broadway musicals, and his performance career has encompassed original companies, revivals, replacements, workshop productions, opera, film, choreography, direction, and education. As a dance captain and swing, he has worked with Kathleen Marshall, Susan Stroman, Warren Carlyle, and Josh Prince on Broadway productions of Anything Goes, The Producers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Shrek the Musical. He was also an original cast member of Seussical the Musical and Urban Cowboy, and a cast member in the recent revivals of Annie and Annie Get Your Gun starring Bernadette Peters. As an original cast member of Shrek the Musical, Justin helped create the show in the workshop production and then went on to play nearly every role (male and female) as the dance captain and swing in the Broadway production, the first national tour, and the feature film. He has set his version of Shrek the Musical at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and 3D Theatricals in Orange County. Regionally, he has played The Tinman in Wizard of Oz at Syracuse Stage, Will Parker in Oklahoma opposite Rue McClanahan, Frankie and Jinx in numerous productions of Forever Plaid, and received a Bay Arts Theatre Critics Circle Best Actor Nomination for his portrayal of the title role in the West Coast premiere of Bat Boy: The Musical. As an educator, he has been a teaching artist for many major NYC companies and teaches master classes all over the country. He is currently the Director of Education and Community Engagement at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, Florida. BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. MA in Educational Leadership, Politics, and Advocacy from New York University. More at www.justingreer.net IG:

08/25/2026

Every town needs a sheriff, a preacher and, apparently, someone willing to keep an eye on a half-boy, half-bat creature living among them.

Sheriff Reynolds is supposed to keep the peace.
Rev. Hightower has plenty to say about right and wrong.
Pan knows what’s happening in Hope Falls, and isn’t about to let a little thing like facts get in the way of a good story.

Together, they help make Hope Falls the kind of town where rumors spread fast, fear spreads faster, and absolutely nobody knows what’s going to happen next.

Get your tickets now! https://purchase.theplayers.org/EventAvailability?EventId=12801&ref=bookNow&scroll=timeAndDates

Photos Adrian Van Stee

08/24/2026

We had a blast promoting BAT BOY on Suncoast View this morning! Thank you for having us, ABC7 Sarasota. ☀️ Keep an eye out for the interview and performance with Bat Boy himself, Chris Cordero. You do not want to miss him in this role. His performance is utterly fangtastic. 🦇 Flip to the final slide for a little surprise. 😉

08/24/2026

Shelley isn't exactly thrilled when a half-bat creature moves into her house. At first, Bat Boy is simply the strange new addition to her family. But as she gets to know him, something unexpected happens. Shelley sees something in Bat Boy that the rest of Hope Falls refuses to see.

Tickets at https://purchase.theplayers.org/EventAvailability?EventId=12801&ref=bookNow&scroll=timeAndDates

Photo by Adrian Van Stee