Saturday, December 8, 2018

reviews - A CHRISTMAS CAROL - Hale Centre Theatre

Rob Stuart
photo by Nick Woodward-Shaw
highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)

Click here for more information on this production that runs through December 24th.

"For fifteen years, Hale Centre Theatre has presented their annual production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol to thousands of delighted audience members. Hale pulls out all of the stops in their impressive production, which infuses this well-known story of one man's redemption with theatrical magic, colorful costumes, and some superb Christmas carols. While the production changes a little each season, and there are two separate casts, the big news this year is that Hale favorite Rob Stuart has taken over the part of Scrooge in the Green Cast of the show and he is giving an excellent performance full of nuance and subtlety....chock full of impressive creative elements and a very gifted cast. It's full of magic and moving moments, a very good stage adaptation that shows how powerful and relevant Dickens' story and characters still are, 175 years after the story was first published. It's easy to see why Hale's production sells out year after year." -Gil Benbrook, Talkin' Broadway (click here to read the complete review)

"...Presenting any show in the round and making it effective to the point that you forget you’re no longer watching a more regular proscenium arch production is not easy... yet with A Christmas Carol, the theatre has perfected its in-the-round presentation. After doing it annually for fifteen years, Hale Center Theatre has crafted a winning formula. And if there’s one thing certain, director David Dietlin clearly has a love for the Charles Dickens novel; you sense it throughout in the details of the play...." -David Appleford, Valley Screen and Stage (click here to read the complete review)

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