Edward Sakamoto News

Kumu Kahua Theatre returns for its 41st season this October with three world premieres, a long-awaited revival and a unique holiday production. Despite financial challenges over the past year, the theater-with just two staff and a core of dedicated volunteers-has put together an outstanding program that underscores the institution's mission: Plays about life in Hawai‘i. Plays by Hawai‘i's playwrights. Plays for Hawai‘i's people.

Folks You Meet In Longs, by Lee Cataluna, perhaps Hawai‘i's best-known and one of its most popular plays, returns to the stage for just eight performances as a benefit for Kumu Kahua Theatre.

Folks You Meet In Longs, by Lee Cataluna, perhaps Hawai‘i's best-known and one of its most popular plays, returns to the stage for just eight performances as a benefit for Kumu Kahua Theatre.

Kumu Kahua Theatre ends its 40th-anniversary season with a bang. Opening on May 26 is a new play from Edward Sakamoto, one of Hawai‘i's most notable-and recognizable-theater voices. He returns with It's All Relative, a humorous exploration of marriage, identity and fading dreams told through three generations of an O‘ahu family in 1995.

Kumu Kahua Theatre ends its 40th-anniversary season with a bang. Opening on May 26 is a new play from Edward Sakamoto, one of Hawai‘i's most notable-and recognizable-theater voices. He returns with It's All Relative, a humorous exploration of marriage, identity and fading dreams told through three generations of an O‘ahu family in 1995.

Director James Nakamoto is seeking 10 actors and actresses. The Miyamoto's appear to be a happy family, but in Edward Sakamoto's dark comedy, nothing is what it seems.