Review: WHITE CHRISTMAS at Diamond Head Theatre
by F.H. Kekoa - December 12, 2024
Released in 1954, ten years after D-Day, the movie White Christmas was a bonafide blockbuster. It was the first Paramount movie shot in the widescreen VistaVision format, and featured rich and vivid Technicolor, which the costumers and set designers used to their full advantage. ...
Review: LOVEY LEE at Kumu Kahua Theatre
by F.H. Kekoa - September 06, 2024
Moses Goods’ “superhero origin story” Lovey Lee finally comes back home to Kumu Kahua Theatre four years after its digital premier over Zoom in 2020. Based on the true story of māhū icon Kealoha “Lovey Lee” Kelekolio, the show paints an intricate, beautiful, and often heartbreaking portrait of queer...
Review: DISNEY'S FROZEN, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Diamond Head Theatre
by F.H. Kekoa - August 14, 2024
Diamond Head Theatre casts an icy spell over the heat of Hawaii’s kauwela with its 2023-2024 season closer of Disney’s Frozen, a “monster” of a show and a tremendous get for the Hawai’i theatre scene. This is by far one of the biggest undertakings artistically and technically in recent DHT history, ...