{"id":59684,"date":"2025-12-13T01:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:16:13","slug":"students-travel-back-in-time-with-debut-of-a-night-in-bethlehem-play-local-state-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59684\/","title":{"rendered":"Students travel back in time with debut of &#8220;A Night in Bethlehem&#8221; play | Local &#038; State News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Sumter Central High School brought the story of the Birth of Jesus to life in their student led play titled \u201cA night in Bethlehem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned a lot, and we learned more about God, and they pushed us hard to do good for the play,\u201d said Takaria Haire.<\/p>\n<p>The students not only led the play, but made history as well, as this is their very first play the school has ever done.<\/p>\n<p>Twin States News got a chance to speak with more cast members about their experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a good experience, we\u2019re getting a good connection, we\u2019re doing everything and learning about songs, and communication and how to pronounce stuff,\u201d said Alexis Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like we\u2019ve kind of bonded together, if that makes sense,\u201d said Ny&#8217;asia Fenderson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoing it for the community, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about,&#8221; said Kemaureon Lockett.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the community, students Takaria Haire, Kemaureon Lockett, expressed what they hope the audience enjoys most about their play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey enjoy the play because this is our first time ever doing a play, so we hope they enjoy it,\u201d said Haire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Represent the Lord, Jesus Christ,\u201d said Lockett.<\/p>\n<p>Students enjoyed putting on the play \u201cA night in Bethlehem\u201d for friends and family and say they cannot wait until their next play.<\/p>\n<p>                                Connect with Us:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Want to Share Something with Our Team?<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students at Sumter Central High School brought the story of the Birth of Jesus to life in their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,8698,296,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-59684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-homepage","12":"tag-local","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59684","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=59684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}