Archive: 2015
FUNDING FOR NEW STAGE LIGHTS
HLT extends grateful thanks to the New Zealand Community Trust for a grant of $2500 towards the purchase of new LED stage lights. We plan to have these in place for the start of our 2016 productions.
2015 BEST PRODUCTION WINNER
Congratulations to director Penelope Keegan and the cast and crew of Sitting Pretty, who were named the winners of the HLT Best Production award for 2015 at the Christmas Party. The president, Frances Hollis, thanked everyone who had worked at the ...
FIVE STARS FOR ‘SEVEN YEAR TWITCH’
Read the Howick and Pakuranga Times reviewer's five-star review of HLT's end-of-year show, Seven Year Twitch.
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES GRANT
Thanks to Creative Communities –- Auckland Council for a $3000 grant that will go towards the cost of producing HLT's 2016 promotional material. This material includes brochures, calendars, postcards, posters and newspaper advertisements.
COOL GRANT FROM PUB CHARITY
Many thanks to Pub Charity for the generous grant of $1599 that HLT has received to replace the obsolete office heat pump, which also provides essential cooling over summer.
FIVE STARS FOR ‘MARY’S WEDDING’
HLT has done it again! Congratulations to the Mary's Wedding team on achieving a five-star review from the Howick and Pakuranga Times reviewer.
LION FOUNDATION FUNDS NEW COMPUTERS
Thanks to the generosity of the Lion Foundation, HLT has received a grant of $2500 to replace the ageing office computers, which had become increasingly slow and unreliable. This has made a huge difference to the smooth running of the office.
FIVE STARS FOR ‘BIRTHRIGHTS’
Howick & Pakuranga Times reviewer Marianne Kelly has given HLT's latest production, Birthrights, a five-star review. Here's what she said: "Take a dose of family rivalry, long-held resentments and throw in one of the most bittersweet human conundrums of all, child ...
FIFTY YEARS OF MEMBERSHIP
Congratulations to HLT patron, former president and long-standing committee member, director and actress Irene Fryer on achieving 50 years as a member of Howick Little Theatre. Irene and her late husband, Ronald, formerly Howick's town cryer, joined the theatre in 1965. ...
FASHION ICON DEBUTS AT HLT
Sitting Pretty is packing in the audiences and got a five-star review. Read the NZ Herald interview with World fashion house co-founder and Sitting Pretty star Denise L'Éstrange-Corbet, who is making her community theatre debut in this comedy-drama. Read the preview with ...