Creekside Premiere’s Strong Script for BOX-CAR CHILDREN
PLEASANT GROVE — Time is a train that never ceases to move down the tracks. With each passing year, more works are created and more from the past enter the…
HCTO’s SEUSSICAL Is Delightfully Unhinged
OREM — Seussical, the musical by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, based on the works of Dr. Seuss has always seemed to me like classic middle school drama fare. As…
Take a lovely holiday to see ENCHANTED APRIL at HCTO
OREM — Enchanted April is a charming story based upon the 1922 novel by British writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The novel, in turn, was inspired by a month-long holiday von…
Ensemble cast shines in HCTO’s DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
OREM — According to Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the key to being a good con artist is to “Give them what they want.” The producers at Hale Center Theater Orem have…
HCTO offers a sensory SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
OREM — Hale Center Theater Orem (HCTO)’s Sense and Sensibility made for a perfect maiden voyage back to theatre after the onset of COVID-19. With the light-hearted, comedic, and nostalgic…
Discover the meaning of rock and roll at HCTO’S MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET
OREM — Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical based on the actual impromptu recording session at Sun Studio in 1956. The show is based on a book by Colin…
Orem Hale’s LES MIS brings new life to old story
OREM — Victor Hugo‘s episodic story of revolution, love, and redemption takes the stage once more in the Hale Center Theater’s production of Les Misérables. This well-known musical (with music…
UTBA reviewers sound off: EXCELLENCE IN 2014
December is full of annual traditions, and at UTBA our favorite is our yearly blog post about the excellence we saw on the Utah stage during the year. In 2014…
BEAU JEST is just a great family comedy
OREM — One line of dialogue from the third act of James Sherman‘s Beau Jest perfectly summarizes the current production of the play at Hale Center Theater Orem: “You put…
Hale’s GUYS AND DOLLS is a showstopper
OREM — The age old battle of the sexes comes to a head in Guys and Dolls, a musical originally premiering in 1950 and finding new stage at Orem’s Hale…