BERETANIA SNAPSHOTS Comes To Kumu Kahua Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Mar 22, 2024
A creative exploration of growing up, grief, and family, Beretania Snapshots at Kumu Kahua Theatre takes to the stage for the first time in a premiere production.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces Cast For The First Play of its New Season, ALOHA LAS VEGAS
by Stephi Wild - Aug 18, 2022
Kumu Kahua Theatre has announced the cast of Aloha Las Vegas, the first play of its upcoming 52nd Season. Reuniting many cast members from its previous productions at Kumu Kahua over the years, the play written by Edward Sakamoto will again grace the theatre's stage in downtown Honolulu, with live performances August 25-September 25, 2022.
Kennedy Theatre Celebrates Edward Sakamoto With Performances And A Symposium
by Stephi Wild - Feb 9, 2022
The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Department of Theatre + Dance and Kennedy Theatre will present, Hawai'i Nō Ka 'Oi: A Sakamoto Celebration, led by Program Director Tammy Haili'ōpua Baker. Showcasing selected scenes spanning the breadth of Edward Sakamoto's career and guided by a variety of student directors, this production will stand as a testament to Sakamoto's contribution to the local and world-wide theatre community.
The Manoa Valley Theatre Announces the Cast of ALLEGIANCE
by Kaitlin Milligan - Nov 23, 2018
Manoa Valley Theatre is thrilled to announce a star-studded cast for Allegiance, the headliner of its 50th Anniversary season, presented at the Hawaii Theatre March 28th - April 7th, 2019. Allegiance, a musical drama by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo, and Lorenzo Thione, is about the Japanese American internment during WWII and one family's extraordinarily divisive experience, was inspired by the true-life experience of its original star, George Takei. It tells the story of one family's extraordinary experience suffering the wrongful imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, creating familial turmoil in a troubling time of a nation at war.
Photo Flash: Kumu Kahua's IT'S ALL RELATIVE
by Nicole Rosky - May 18, 2011
Kumu Kahua Theatre ends its 40th-anniversary season with a bang. Opening on May 26 is a new play from Edward Sakamoto, one of Hawai‘i's most notable-and recognizable-theater voices. He returns with It's All Relative, a humorous exploration of marriage, identity and fading dreams told through three generations of an O‘ahu family in 1995.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Ends 40th Season with IT'S ALL RELATIVE, Opens 5/26
by Lauren Wolman - May 16, 2011
Kumu Kahua Theatre ends its 40th-anniversary season with a bang. Opening on May 26 is a new play from Edward Sakamoto, one of Hawai‘i's most notable-and recognizable-theater voices. He returns with It's All Relative, a humorous exploration of marriage, identity and fading dreams told through three generations of an O‘ahu family in 1995.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Presents THERE'S THE DOOR, 11/6-7
by BWW
News Desk - Nov 5, 2010
Kumu Kahua Theatre presents, as part of its Dark Night Series, There's The Door, directed by Keith Kashiwada. Storytellers Nyla Fujii-Babb, Neal Milner, and Dann Seki present some original stories that continue their humorous and poignant struggle to explore life's BIG questions, told in the style of earlier Kumu Kahua shows Growing Up in Hyphened America and Life Staged.