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A new play opening in Honolulu links history, family, culture, and modern life in Hawai‘i. It’s the final episode in a trilogy that started 25 years ago,…
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A lot of local threads run through Darrell Lum’s new play, Da Beer Can Hat, an adaptation of his iconic short story. Family dynamics, peer pressure, and…
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In 1929, economics and society in Hawai‘i were highly stratified. When the ten year old son of a banker was kidnapped from Punahou School and killed, the…
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By a couple of years ago, the Hawai‘i Shakespeare Festival had finished performing all The Bard’s plays--the great, the obscure, and the questionable. At…
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Summer is a time when rigid schedules loosen up, making room for new experiences. Honolulu’s theater community has some tempting offerings for all ages,…
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Kumu KahuaTheatre’s mission, since its founding in 1971, is to help develop theater by, for, and about Hawai‘i’s people. In 2010, this unique local…
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2005 may have been the height of Hawai‘i’s ice “epidemic.” That year, Hawai‘i police arrested 719 people on meth charges. Though we haven’t heard a whole…
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“My Name is Gary Cooper”, the current production at KumuKahua has been generating a lot of buzz for the unconventional way it tackles family and race…
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How will I die? It's not a comfortable question, but that question, how will I die?, becomes a family matter very quickly in Hawai’i. That is the subject…
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The curtain is going up on Honolulu’s fall theatre season and there’s a particularly wide variety of offerings this year. HPR‘s Noe Tanigawa offers this…