Hawaii - Broadway Shows on Tour

by F.H. Kekoa - March 21, 2025

E ola ka lāhui!...

by F.H. Kekoa - March 19, 2025

What did our critic think of GREASE at Diamond Head Theatre? Leave 2025 behind, put your gladrags on, and lace up your saddle shoes, because Grease has arrived at Diamond Head Theatre, and tonight everybody's gonna party like it’s 1959!...

by F.H. Kekoa - March 10, 2025

RENT is as relevant as ever, and UHM did it justice....

by F.H. Kekoa - February 25, 2025

A bright new addition has set up “shop” at Kumu Kahua: The Improv Superette, the newest improv group on O’ahu, featuring a large cast of talented Poly improvisers playing classic improv games, served with two scoops of local flavor....

by F.H. Kekoa - January 28, 2025

There is magic afoot at Diamond Head Theatre with the Tony-winning American classic Master Class, penned by the late great Terrence McNally. With beautiful set design (and cameos!) by Randy Tandal, deft direction by Bryce Chaddick, and an incomparable performance by leading lady Amy K. Sullivan, thi...

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. ...

by F.H. Kekoa - December 07, 2024

Local stories are always in style....

by F.H. Kekoa - November 27, 2024

Gods and mortals, stories and songs, sea and sand--all make a splash at Mānoa Valley 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...

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, ...