SOMETHING ROTTEN is coming to The Young People's Theatre Project, June 27-30, 2024!

Our summer Performing Arts Camp students, selected from middle and high schools throughout the Portland area, welcome you to the Renaissance for this outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, SOMETHING ROTTEN has been lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as "the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years".

Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self ... and all that jazz.

SOMETHING ROTTEN is best suited for family audiences with middle school students and older.