HCT’s HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN IN NEW YORK underwhelms in World Premiere
SANDY — When a story is revised, revived or adapted from one medium to another, there’s always a purist or two who resists the changes from the original version. Prior…
TITANIC at the HCT is impressively grand
SANDY– The Hale Centre Theatre has turned their Young Living arena theatre into an enormous ship, but you wouldn’t know it while waiting for the show to begin. The stage…
A leaky show in Hale Centre Theatre’s THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN
SANDY — The Unsinkable Molly Brown has never been a great musical, even though it features words and lyrics written by Meredith Willson, creator of The Music Man, one of…
HCT’s SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN makes an old classic new and refreshing
SANDY — As a teenager, one of my friends was shocked to learn that I had never seen the film Singin’ in The Rain. She quickly rectified that and the…
Hale’s production of THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA glows
SANDY — The display screens outside the Sorensen Legacy Jewel Box Theatre indicated how the Italian setting of the Tony award winning play The Light in the Piazza by Craig…
Hale Centre Theatre’s TREASURE ISLAND is full of high adventure
SANDY — Treasure Island is a timeless tale of pirates and treachery, told first by Robert Louis Stevenson in his critically acclaimed book and revised for stage and film many…
Head to HCT’s production of CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG “Toot Sweets”
SANDY — A few years ago I watched a stage production of Richard M. Sherman‘s and Robert B. Sherman‘s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams,…
Hale’s THE SECRET GARDEN could use more light
SANDY — The Secret Garden has been enjoyed on the page, stage, and screen for over a century. Based on the children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the 1991 Broadway…
HCT’S LES MISERABLES reminds us that in time “the sun will rise”
SANDY — What is there to say about Les Misérables that has not already been said? For starters (according to the theatre company), Hale Centre Theatre in Sandy, Utah, is…
Hale Centre Theatre’s BRIGHT STAR shines
Update: On March 12, Hale Centre Theatre cancelled performances of Bright Star through March 30, due to the coronavirus pandemic. On March 17, the company announced that all remaining performances…