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It won’t matter if your back is turned when a loud, boisterous character bounds onto the scene of Batavia Players’ weekend show “The Drowsy Chaperone.” You’ll know who it is each and every time

Broadway and TV actor John Bolton sits down with The Batavian for an exclusive interview about his early career beginnings while growing up and discovering the acting world in Genesee County.

Think of a tiny hamlet up north, not quite reaching Canada, filled with regular town folk but with no governing rules because nobody ever got around to officially organizing. It’s filled with geese, and moose, snow-sprinkled deer, and scenery so photogenic you’d swear it’s Maine. But as you will soon learn, it’s Almost, Maine, Batavia Players’ next show to debut this weekend.

The president of a fraternity and his friends take an oath to dedicate themselves to a life of study and avoid the company of women for three years.

There’s a well-known tenet of business that you have to spend money to make money. However, when a pandemic hits and stalls theater renovations and the ability to make money with shows, only half that rule is visible, says Pat Burk of Batavia Players. “We already paid for a number of shows for this year’s season. When you buy the rights and royalties to a show, you’re never

BATAVIA — On Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay college student at the University of Wyoming was beaten, tortured and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming. Six day later,