HCTO’s Final CHRISTMAS CAROL Is a Triumph
OREM — Jim Collins’ best selling book “Good to Great” discusses principals that separate good companies from those that are truly great. One of the things that gets in the…
HCTO’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH is ripe for the picking
OREM — I subjected Hale Center Theater Orem’s production of James and the Giant Peach to the toughest test that a theatre for young audiences (TYA) show can have: Could…
Weak script sabotages SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN
OREM — In a conversation with a playwright, I once asked how he responded to people seeing his work. His response was that an audience loving it or hating it…
SCERA’s THE MUSIC MAN is a comfy batch of nostalgia
OREM — In uncertain times, there is something comforting about a show like The Music Man. For the past five months, Americans have had to deal with lockdowns, riots, closed…
A surprisingly touching TARZAN in Spanish Fork
SPANISH FORK — The biggest surprise of Spanish Fork Community Theater’s production of Tarzan is not the dancing apes or the characters swinging across the stage. Rather, it is the…