Published April 07. 2026 01:30PM<\/p>\n
The Freedom HS Theatre Company presents the musical \u201cSomething Rotten\u201d on Friday, April 10 at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 11 at 1 and 7 p.m., and Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething Rotten\u201d is a musical comedy based on a book by John O\u2019Farrell and Karey Kirkpatrick with music and lyrics by Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick.<\/p>\n
The story is set in the 1590s and follows Nick and Nigel Bottom as they vie for success in the theatrical world while competing with their contemporary, William Shakespeare.<\/p>\n
The production team for \u201cSomething Rotten\u201d consists of Director Justin Amann, Assistant Director Jessica Sturm, choreographer Vanessa Ruggiero, musical and pit director Denise Parker, costumer and set painter Priscilla Salazar, sound designer Adam Stoltz, stage manager Amy Illescas, student assistant director Cole Faccinetto, and assistant stage managers Connor O\u2019Brien and Lileighana Siegfried.<\/p>\n
Tickets are available by visiting bit.ly\/FHStickets or by calling 610-867-5843, ext. 80857.<\/p>\n
Press photos by Dana GrubbThe Minstrel (Kierstan Rubery) and ensemble perform \u201cWelcome to the Renaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nick (Cole Faccinetto) and Nigel (Kayden Taylor) Bottom brainstorm a new idea for their play.<\/p>\n
Lord Clapham (Sam Beardall) informs Nigel Bottom (Kayden Taylor) and his brother Nick (Cole Faccinetto) that Shakespeare is doing a new play using their title.<\/p>\n
Shylock the Jew (Ben Beardall) wants to help Nick (Cole Faccinetto) fund the troupe.<\/p>\n
As Nigel (Kayden Taylor) and Nick (Cole Faccinetto) listen, Nick\u2019s wife Bea (Kensington Matol) sings \u201cRight Hand Man.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published April 07. 2026 01:30PM The Freedom HS Theatre Company presents the musical \u201cSomething Rotten\u201d on Friday, April…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-159680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}