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The Manatee Performing Arts Center quickly outgrew the building that opened in 2013. A new four-story structure will add more space for rehearsals and education programs.
"Apparently he was aware of my career, and his manager Googled me and found my manager," Guerrero says. "The first thing I was thinking [was], 'Is this real or a prank call?'"
The play is the true story of a Polish man who became an international hero, risking his life to reveal the atrocities he witnessed in Jewish ghettos and concentration camps.