Hale Centre Theatre serves up classic comedy in NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS
WEST VALLEY CITY — No Time For Sergeants, based on the 1954 novel by Mark Hyman, has been enduringly popular, having been adapted into a teleplay, a comic book series,…
THE 39 STEPS leads to an adventure in laughs
WEST VALLEY CITY — Start with one arena stage, two straight backed chairs, three old fashioned steamer trunks, and four extremely versatile actors. Toss in a foley artist and a…
Uneven OLIVER! rallies in second act
WEST VALLEY CITY — It’s an unusual experience when to go into intermission thinking that you are going to write one review and leave the show ready to write another.…
Girl power is alive and feisty at 9 TO 5
WEST VALLEY — There’s a great show playing at the Hale Centre Theatre this fall. The classic movie Nine to Five got a revamp in 2009 as a flashy Broadway…
THE SOUND OF MUSIC in West Valley is one of my favorite things
WEST VALLEY CITY — If you haven’t seen the iconic movie musical The Sound of Music, you might as well be hiding your head in some proverbial sand. To say…
FATHER OF THE BRIDE gets lukewarm reception at HCT
WEST VALLEY CITY — Hale Centre Theatre is celebrating a wedding as it gets ready for its production of Father of the Bride, and, for a first time visitor of…
Not even ZORRO can save this musical
WEST VALLEY — I’m really torn about this one. When I take it apart, there were a lot of great things in Hale Centre Theater’s production of Zorro The Musical.…
Hale’s THE GAME’S AFOOT: Oh, what a difference a script makes
WEST VALLEY CITY — The premise is delightful (the execution, not so much). Playwright Ken Ludwig chose real-life William Gillette— a famous actor/writer/director from the early 20th century quite famous…
Hale Centre Theatre’s MY FAIR LADY
WEST VALLEY CITY — It’ s perfectly natural to walk into a theater with certain expectations, certain requirements that will tell you whether or not the company performed this show…
Hale’s JOSEPH: a cut above the rest
WEST VALLEY — Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat has been a staple of Utah community theater for decades. Each year you can be assured of 7-10 productions of the…