Stu Hirayama News

Kumu Kahua Theatre rings up the finale of its 52nd Season of audience favorites with the smash hit Folks You Meet in Longs, Lee Catalunaʻs raucous collection of monologues celebrating a wide, wild range of characters frequenting Hawaiiʻs favorite drugstore.

Kumu Kahua Theatre and production director Harry Wong III has announced the Lucky Come Hawaii team.

A family struggles to care for their matriarch as dementia slowly steals her memories away. Her grandson’s method of existing within -- and adding to -- the imaginative world she inhabits creates a special bond. He helps her cope with changing realities, and she gives him the gift of self-acceptance.

A new musical will be read by veteran local actors in Hawaii for one presentation only on Saturday, November 28 at 2 PM HST.  This is the first public reading of the new script written by the team behind the popular musical A Jive Bombers Christmas, presented at Kumu Kahua Theatre in 2011.

Kumu Kahua Theatre proudly presents Yilong Liu's June is the First Fall, directed by Lurana Donnels O'Malley, running November 8 - December 9, 2018.

As part of their Dark Night series, Kumu Kahua Theatre presents Patient by Tali Ariav. Ms Ariav is a playwriting instructor at Kumu Kahua Theatre and an accomplished playwright whose work has been produced internationally.

Manoa Valley Theatre will captivate audiences with the mystery thriller from Frederick Knott, from the 1966 and 1998 Broadway seasons. It's the story of a sinister con man and two ex-convicts who are about to meet their match when they deploy a cleverly constructed deception on a blind woman whom they think unknowingly possesses a doll of particular interest to them. Seemingly disadvantaged, it is only when darkness falls and she turns off all the lights leaving the perpetrators to maneuver in the dark that the real cat-and-mouse game ramps up. You'll be on the edge of your seat as this thriller masterfully moves from one moment of suspense to another and builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene.

The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) returns to The ARTS at Marks Garage in the center of the vibrant downtown arts district for its thirteenth season. After completing the canon (all 38 of Shakespeare's plays in twelve years), HSF stretches out in new directions with classics from other playwrights, apocrypha and experimental work.

One of Moliere's most famous comedies, Tartuffe is considered a classic of Western Theatre.

One of Moliere's most famous comedies, Tartuffe is considered a classic of Western Theatre.

Moliere's TARTUFFE, directed by Joyce Maltby, will be presented by Hawaii Pacific University's Paul & Vi Loo Theatre, November 15 - December 8, 2013.

Ghosts, demons, and dark memories haunt Hawai‘i's plantation fields in this tale of a curse passed down through three generations. An old man has died, and as his son and grandson sort through his belongings, the photograph of a beautiful woman exposes the violent secret buried in the old man's past.

Ghosts, demons, and dark memories haunt Hawai‘i's plantation fields in this tale of a curse passed down through three generations. An old man has died, and as his son and grandson sort through his belongings, the photograph of a beautiful woman exposes the violent secret buried in the old man's past.

Cane Fields Burning is showing at Kumu Kahua Theater from Sep 8 - Oct 9, 2011. The show is a world premiere by Kemuel DeMoville. 'Something's stirring in the shadows. Something's coming. Something's waiting.'

Ghosts, demons, and dark memories haunt Hawai‘i's plantation fields in this tale of a curse passed down through three generations. An old man has died, and as his son and grandson sort through his belongings, the photograph of a beautiful woman exposes the violent secret buried in the old man's past.