By Alec Kerr, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
TAMWORTH — The Barnstormers Theatre is kicking off its 95th season of summer stock theater with “Something Rotten!,” a hilarious, irreverent musical about theater, musicals and William Shakespeare.
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