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MANOA VALLEY THEATRE

2833 East Manoa Road
Honolulu, HI 96744

Once on This Island
Once on This Island
11/14 - 12/8/2024


FROM THE TONY AWARD-WINNING SONGWRITING TEAM OF LYNN AHRENS AND STEPHEN FLAHERTY (RAGTIME), COMES THE OLIVIER AWARD-WINNING ONCE ON THIS ISLAND. THIS CARIBBEAN ADAPTATION OF ...


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by F.H. Kekoa - August 26, 2024

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by F.H. Kekoa - June 04, 2024

A powerhouse performance by Dwight T Martin leads a talented cast of Arthur Miller's masterpiece of American theatre....

Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces Free Advanced Acting Class As New Offering in its Stages Education Program


by Stephi Wild - March 15, 2023

Kumu Kahua Theatre has announced a new advanced acting class that will focus on developing an actor's skills on their feet. The latest workshop in the theatre's STAGES education program, the eight-week course Stage Acting with Julia Ogilvie will be offered free of charge....

Winners Announced For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards


by BWW Awards - January 12, 2023

The winners have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards, honoring the best in regional productions, touring shows, and more which had their first performance between October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022....

12 Days Left To Vote For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards; Hawaii Performing Arts Festival Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 19, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 19th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Latest Stats Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards; at Hawaii Performing Arts Festival Leads Best Ensemble Performance!


by BWW - December 12, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 12th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Latest Standings Released For The 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards; Hawaii Performing Arts Festival Leads Favorite Local Theatre!


by BWW - December 05, 2022

The latest standings as of Monday, December 5th, have been released for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

First Stats Released For The BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards; Hawaii Performing Arts' HAIR Leads Best Musical


by BWW Staff - November 21, 2022

The first live standings have been announced for the 2022 BroadwayWorld Hawaii Awards! Nominations were reader-submitted and now our readers get to vote for their favorites....

Past Shows

Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Soprano


Based on Ken Ludwig's Tony Award winning Lend Me a Tenor, this side-splitting farce follows the chaotic misadventures of a hapless opera company desperately trying ...

Tenderly - The Rosemary Clooney Musical


TENDERLY, THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL is not a typical “juke-box musical.” It offers a fresh, remarkably personal, and poignant picture of the woman whose unparalleled ...

Happily Eva Afta
Happily Eva Afta
6/27 - 7/14/2024


A local-kine Hawaiian pidgin musical comedy by Lisa Matsumoto and Roslyn Catracchia  produced in association with Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center. This final segment ...

Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman
5/23 - 6/2/2024


Winner of the 1949 Tony Award® for Best Play and the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The story revolves around the last days of Willy ...

Dear Evan Hansen
Dear Evan Hansen
3/7 - 3/24/2024


A letter that was never meant to be seen, a lie that was never meant to be told, a life he never dreamed he could ...

The Lifespan of a Fact
The Lifespan of a Fact
1/11 - 1/21/2024


The Lifespan of a Fact is a true story based on the book by John D’Agata and Jim Fingal. This dramatic comedy features Jim Fingal, ...

Cambodian Rock Band
5/5 - 5/15/2022

Combodian Rock Band
5/5 - 5/15/2022

The 39 Steps
3/17 - 3/27/2022


Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for ...

Desperate Measures
1/13 - 1/30/2022

The Joy Luck Club
11/4 - 11/14/2021


Susan Kim, adapted from the novel by Amy Tan Sierra Madre Playhouse...


Jeremy Heere is just an average teenager. That is, until he finds out about “The Squip,” a tiny supercomputer that promises to bring him everything ...

Be More Chill
9/2 - 9/19/2021


Jeremy Heere is just an average teenager. That is, until he finds out about “The Squip,” a tiny supercomputer that promises to bring him everything ...

Lisa Matsumoto's ONCE UPON ONE TIME


Lisa Matsumoto's Once Upon One Time adapts and intertwines familiar tales to create a musical fairy tale fantasy for the whole family! Audience members journey ...

TENDERLY, THE ROSEMARY CLOONEY MUSICAL


A remarkably personal and poignant picture of the woman whose unparalleled talent made her a legend. With her signature songs woven in and out, we ...

Daddy Long Legs
7/1 - 7/11/2021


The heartwarming musical "Daddy Long Legs" tells the story of Jerusha Abbott, an orphan yearning for a life beyond the walls of the John Grier ...


Winner of the Tony and the Drama Desk Awards for Best Book, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has charmed audiences across the country ...

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS
5/6 - 5/16/2021


Based on the best-selling book by Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies her time working as the online advice columnist Sugar. A play about reaching ...

BE MORE CHILL
BE MORE CHILL
3/4 - 3/21/2021


Be More Chill is the new musical sensation that's about to invade your brain. It's just your atypical love story a guy (he wants to ...

MVT Live
3/18


This week's episode of Mānoa Valley Theatre's live streaming video series MVT Live continues with host Devon Nekoba featuring the cast of Popcorn Falls, opening ...

THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
1/7 - 1/24/2021


When the Andrews Sisters fail to appear for a USO show, three earnest stagehands are determined the show must go on. A madcap comedy featuring ...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A LIVE RADIO PLAY


This Dickens classic comes to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast, complete with vintage commercials, live sound effects, and musical underscoring. A charming take ...

CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
10/29 - 11/15/2020


Cambodian Rock Band thrusts us into the life of a young woman trying to piece together her family history thirty years after her father fled ...

DESPERATE MEASURES
DESPERATE MEASURES
9/3 - 9/20/2020


Dangerously handsome Johnny Blood must put his fate into the hands of a colorful cast of Old West characters in this witty and wild musical ...


based on the novel by Mark Haddon, adapted by Simon Stephens Manoa Valley Theatre...


David Rambo Manoa Valley Theatre...

Sylvia
9/19 - 10/6/2019


A.R. Gurney Manoa Valley Theatre...

Tony n' Tina's Wedding
5/16 - 6/2/2019


Tony and Tina's Wedding in San Francisco, California, is interactive italian wedding play and dinner show. Get yourself invited to TONY AND Tina's WEDDING, now ...

Allegiance
3/28 - 4/7/2019


East Coast Regional Premiere! Inspired by the true childhood experience of actor and social media icon George Takei (Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek"), ALLEGIANCE tells ...

Lisa Matsumoto's Once Upon One Noddah Time


This Hawaii style local musical adapts traditional fairy tales into a comedic, local fantasy full of energetic songs and colorful characters. Meet Da Tree Local ...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest


A charming rogue contrives to serve a short court sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he quickly learns, was a ...

Peter and the Starcatcher
Peter and the Starcatcher
3/5 - 3/22/2015


This is the epic origin story of Peter Pan, one of popular culture’s most enduring and beloved characters. In this swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter ...

Becky's New Car
Becky's New Car
1/15 - 2/1/2015


This contemporary comedy is about love, loss, choices and what makes life worth living. It is a devious and delightful romp down the road not ...

Closer Than Ever
Closer Than Ever
11/13 - 11/30/2014


Each song in this brilliant and tuneful musical revue is a story: an intimate, insightful tale about love, security, and happiness, and holding onto them ...

The Addams Family
The Addams Family
9/4 - 9/21/2014


In this original story based on the characters from the popular 1964-66 television show, Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch are back ...

Smokey Joe's Café
Smokey Joe's Café
7/3 - 7/20/2014


Songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll with a list of chart-busting hits that ignited a generation. ...

Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller


Leiber and Stoller, as much as anyone, virtually invented rock 'n' roll, and now their songs provide the basis for an electrifying entertainment that illuminates ...

Clybourne Park
Clybourne Park
5/22 - 6/8/2014


Written in response to Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun (1959), the play portrays fictional events set before and after the Hansberry play and ...

The Odd Couple - female version


Even the best of friends can make the worst of roommates. Neil Simon’s mismatched couple are butting heads again in this gender twist on his ...

Quartet
Quartet
11/14 - 12/1/2013


Three retired opera singers living in a retirement home for musicians are preparing for their annual concert to commemorate the birthday of Verdi. Excitement is ...

Rent
Rent
3/13 - 3/30/2013


Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème is loosely the basis for this highly celebrated, multi-award winning rock musical about falling in love, finding your voice and ...

Honk!
Honk!
6/28 - 7/15/2012


Honk! is a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling. This is the story of Ugly, whose odd, gawky looks instantly ...

Dividing the Estate
Dividing the Estate
5/10 - 5/27/2012


Set in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas in 1987, the play focuses on the Gordons, a clan of malcontents ruled by octogenarian matriarch Stella ...

The Dividing Estate
The Dividing Estate
3/10 - 3/27/2012


Set in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas in 1987, the play focuses on the Gordons, a clan of malcontents ruled by octogenarian matriarch Stella ...

Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening
3/8 - 3/25/2012


Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1891 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. Set in late-19th century Germany, ...

God of Carnage
God of Carnage
1/12 - 1/29/2012


God of Carnage is a Tony Award-winning play by Yasmina Reza that was first produced in English in London on 25 March 2008, in a ...

Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/27 - 11/13/2011


A down-and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon ...

The 39 Steps
The 39 Steps
9/8 - 9/25/2011


Combining a spy thriller with farcical comedy and ingenious theatrical invention, The 39 Steps is an engaging, fast-paced whodunit that celebrates the magic of theater. ...

Videos


MFA/BFA Dance Concert in Hawaii MFA/BFA Dance Concert
UHM Kennedy Theatre (1/29 - 2/2)
Magic in Paradise with David Kuraya in Hawaii Magic in Paradise with David Kuraya
ProArts Playhouse (11/24 - 11/24)
Once on This Island in Hawaii Once on This Island
Manoa Valley Theatre (11/14 - 12/8)
CLOCKS in Hawaii CLOCKS
UHM Kennedy Theatre (4/9 - 4/13)
Magic Mania in Hawaii Magic Mania
Aloha Ha Comedy Club (2/1 - 2/28)
Every Christmas Story Ever Told in Hawaii Every Christmas Story Ever Told
ProArts Playhouse (12/6 - 12/15)
Mapping Living Histories: Performance as Embodied Archive in Hawaii Mapping Living Histories: Performance as Embodied Archive
UHM Kennedy Theatre (3/1 - 3/8)
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