
Our Golden Season is just behind us, and we couldn’t have done 50 years without supporters like you! In appreciation we are planning an exciting year of fun and celebration, honoring the past while inviting the community to look towards our future together!
We are pleased to announce our 2025-2026 Main Stage Productions, featuring four new shows you won’t want to miss.
Tickets and Season Subscriptions On Sale Now!
Main Stage
Our traditional main stage “Bay Street Players” presents:
Bright Star
Opening Labor Day Weekend
Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s. When literary editor Alice Murphy meets a young soldier just home from World War II, he awakens her longing for the child she once lost. Haunted by their unique connection, Alice sets out on a journey to understand her past—and what she finds has the power to transform both of their lives. With beautiful melodies and powerfully moving characters, the story unfolds as a rich tapestry of deep emotion. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, Bright Star is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
Bright Star is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.theatricalrights.com
Content Warnings: Themes of domestic violence, death, war, child abuse, and strong sexual content.
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Evil Dead: The Musical
Closing Halloween Weekend
Directed by Tad Kincaid
Evil Dead The Musical takes all the elements of the cult classic films, The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, and Army of Darkness and combines them for one of the craziest, funniest, and bloodiest theatrical experiences of all time. Five college students go to an abandoned cabin in the woods, and accidentally unleash an evil force that turns them all into demons. It’s all up to Ash (a housewares employee, turned demon-killing hero), and his trusty chainsaw to save the day. Blood flies. Limbs are dismembered. Demons tell bad jokes… and all to music. The songs in the show are completely off the wall as well. Titles like “All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons” and “What the F**k was That?” has had audiences rolling in their seats, and screaming for more and more blood. You don’t need to be a fan of Evil Dead to love this show. You don’t need to be a fan of horror to love this show. You don’t even need to be a fan of musicals to love this show. As long as you like having fun… this show is for you. Is it scary? No! Is it gory? No. This is a pure comedy start to finish. It has fun with the horror genre, and in doing so appeals to a wider audience than you could ever imagine. Plus it’s the only show with a “Splatter Zone” – a section of the audience that gets covered in fake blood. And with this combination of blood, jokes, cheesy effects, and really awesome musical numbers, Evil Dead The Musical is unlike any live show you’ve ever seen.
EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
This show is rated R for strong adult language and adult themes
Content Warnings: Adult situations, language, sexual situations, gore: body dismemberment, excess blood
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Lightning Thief
Directed by Emma Register
As the half-blood son of a Greek god, Percy Jackson has newly-discovered powers he can’t control, a destiny he doesn’t want, and a mythology textbook’s worth of monsters on his trail. When Zeus’s master lightning bolt is stolen and Percy becomes the prime suspect, he has to find and return the bolt to prove his innocence and prevent a war between the gods. But to succeed on his quest, Percy will have to do more than catch the thief. He must travel to the Underworld and back; solve the riddle of the Oracle, which warns him of betrayal by a friend; and come to terms with the father who abandoned him. Adapted from the best-selling book The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan and featuring a thrilling original rock score, The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical is an action-packed mythical adventure “worthy of the gods” (Tip me Out New York).
THE LIGHTNING THIEF is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
Content Warnings: Mature and ableist language, violence, death, alcohol consumption, possible use of strobe lights. If you have questions regarding the lighting used, please contact our Box Office.
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Escape to Margaritaville
If you need to escape to an island in the Caribbean for the night, this show is for you! Based around the music of Jimmy Buffett, Escape to Margaritaville centers around a rundown resort, run by Marley.
Tully Mars is the paid entertainment, spending his nights keeping the tourists dancing and his days romancing the female travelers. But then Rachel arrives on a bachelorette trip for her friend Tammy.
A hard-working environmental scientist, Rachel is looking solely for a week of sun, sand, and collecting soil samples from the nearby volcano. Despite her initial hesitation, Rachel is soon seduced by Tully’s charms, but is this just another one of Tully’s throw-away flirtations?
After she leaves, the island volcano blows, and Tully must decide whether to try and win her love in Ohio.
Full of well-known hits such as “Five O’Clock Somewhere”, “Margaritaville”, and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk”, Escape to Margaritaville is a light-hearted tribute to the “island escapism” lifestyle much beloved by many.
Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing Global. (www.broadwaylicensing.com)
Content Warnings: Adult themes, language, and situations.
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Legends Concerts and other Special Events
Watch this space for our Legends Concerts and other Special Events, updated frequently throughout the season.
Comic Laughs New Material Nights
Pay as You Wish!
These special “New Material Nights” give our performers an opportunity to try out their new material with a live audience.
We will feature up to 9 comedians with new sets. And we may be surprise you with additional special guest artists.
Come support the arts, our comedians, and leave laughing. Enjoy our Courtyard bar and concessions before and during the show.
See our full schedule for our Comedy Showcase and Comedy Headline Nights.
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Comic Laughs 2025 Season
2025 Season
Brick Road Comedy Presents
Join our full season of Comedy presented by Brick Road Comedy.
Come support the arts, our comedians, and leave laughing. Enjoy our Courtyard bar and concessions before and during the show.
See more information on our New Material Nights.
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Young Peoples Theatre
Since its founding in 1974, Bay Street Players at the State Theatre has been committed to youth education. The Young People’s Theatre program (YPT) is the oldest of its kind in the state and among the longest running youth theatre education initiatives in the nation.
Read more about YPT and enroll your student today.

Season Subscribers
SEASON SUBSCRIBERS have first access to select their preferred performance date and seats for each show in our 2025-2026 Main Stage Season—all four shows for one low price!
Season Subscribers current seats will be reserved until July 31st, so renew today!
Need more flexibility?
With our MULTI-PASS, secure a package of tickets to use in any combination at any time of your choosing through summer 2026—a 20% savings!
For more information about season subscriptions, tickets and our 2025-2026 Season, contact the box office at (352) 357-7777 or info@baystreetplayers.org.