What Bat Boy Would Want You To Do This Weekend

Tragically, The Weekly World News, America’s only newspaper, went out of business earlier this year. I have absolutely no idea what it was like working at the WWN photo sweatshop, but the editors were clearly excellent at fostering creativity. When I think back on the 1990s, it’s with vivid memories of Bill Clinton’s summits with space aliens, apocalyptic New Year’s predictions that generally failed to come true and the soap-opera life of the perpetually aghast Bat Boy.

The Barn Players are staging Bat Boy – The Musical at the Barn Players Theater (6219 Martway in Mission), a show based on the WWN’s journalistic accounts of the chiropteric boy’s tumultuous life. Catch shows tonight and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.