Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces 51st Season
by Stephi Wild - Jul 31, 2021
The theatre will continue to offer a digital representation of shows for those who have been watching across the state and world, or are otherwise unable to visit the theatre in person. They'll also continue to present closed captioned digital performances, and digital shows will still be offered on a pay-what-you-will basis.
Hawaii Shakespeare Festival Announces 2020 Online Season
by Stephi Wild - Jun 22, 2020
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival's (HSF) nineteenth season is full of romance and humor and is all virtual! We kick off with As You Like It opening July 17, then Love's Labour's Lost opening August 7, and conclude with Merry Wives of Windsor opening August 14. All shows will be performed live online via Zoom.
Original Founders Return to Hawaii Shakespeare Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jun 6, 2018
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) celebrates its seventeenth season with the return of all three founding members: Tony Pisculli, R. Kevin Garcia Doyle, and Harry Wong, III. The last time all three directed together was during HSF's 10th season in 2011. The season kicks off with Shakespeare's twisted, fairy-tale take on romantic comedy All's Well That Ends Well, opening July 13. Next is Shakespeare's most painful tragedy King Lear, opening July 27. The season concludes with Henrik Ibsen's dark drama Hedda Gabler, opening August 10.
COMMEDIA REP Launches Hawaii Shakespeare Festival's 14th Season Today
by BWW News Desk - Jul 10, 2015
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) celebrates its fourteenth season at The ARTS at Marks Garage in the center of the vibrant downtown arts district. This year, HSF continues its post-canon-completion tradition of scheduling experimental or non-Shakespeare plays alongside traditional works. The upcoming season includes a commedia dell'arte rep, opening tonight, July 10; Winter's Tale, opening July 24; and Othello, opening August 14.
THE WINTER'S TALE, OTHELLO and More Set for Hawaii Shakespeare Festival's 14th Season
by BWW News Desk - Jun 19, 2015
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) celebrates its fourteenth season at The ARTS at Marks Garage in the center of the vibrant downtown arts district. This year, HSF continues its post-canon-completion tradition of scheduling experimental or non-Shakespeare plays alongside traditional works. The upcoming season includes a commedia dell'arte rep, opening July 10; Winter's Tale, opening July 24; and Othello, opening August 14.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Presents THE UNDERNEATH, Now thru 12/7
by BWW News Desk - Nov 6, 2014
The 44th season at Kumu Kahua Theatre continues with a world premiere of a new Susan Soon He Stanton play. Susan also wrote Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano' and The Art of Preservation, both of which also premiered at Kumu Kahua Theatre.
Kumu Kahua Theatre to Present THE UNDERNEATH, 11/6-12/7
by BWW News Desk - Oct 28, 2014
The 44th season at Kumu Kahua Theatre continues with a world premiere of a new Susan Soon He Stanton play. Susan also wrote Whatever Happened to John Boy Kihano' and The Art of Preservation, both of which also premiered at Kumu Kahua Theatre.
2014 Hawaii Shakespeare Festival Announces Lineup
by Louisa Brady - Jun 27, 2014
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) returns to The ARTS at Marks Garage in the center of the vibrant downtown arts district for its thirteenth season. After completing the canon (all 38 of Shakespeare's plays in twelve years), HSF stretches out in new directions with classics from other playwrights, apocrypha and experimental work.
Hawaii Shakes Announces 2013 Season: AS YOU LIKE IT, TIMON OF ATHENS, & TROILUS AND CRESSIDA!
by Tyler Peterson - Jun 27, 2013
The Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (HSF) returns to The ARTS at Marks Garage in the center of the vibrant downtown arts district for its twelfth season. For over a decade, the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival has been presenting three Shakespeare plays each year without repeating in its quest to produce all of Shakespeare's plays for Hawaii. At the conclusion of this season, HSF will join the ranks of the few festivals worldwide that have completed the canon. The season includes Troilus and Cressida, opening July 19; Timon of Athens, opening August 9; and As You Like It, opening August 23. Each play runs two weekends. Free companion lectures are offered for each play.
Kumu Kahua Theatre's SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE PAHALA THEATRE Closes
by BWW News Desk - Feb 26, 2012
Kumu Kahua Theatre brings one of American fiction's most distinct voices to the stage in an adaptation of Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre. The production is a world premiere and is Sponsored by the Iolani Class of '58.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Hosts DRAW THE LINE 2/17
by BWW
News Desk - Feb 17, 2012
To help fund the operation of Kumu Kahua Theatre's 41st season, Hawai'i artists are putting their support on paper, with the fundraising event Draw the Line.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Announces DRAW THE LINE Fundraising Event
by Kelsey Denette - Feb 14, 2012
To help fund the operation of Kumu Kahua Theatre's 41st season, Hawai'i artists are putting their support on paper, with the fundraising event Draw the Line. It will be an evening of art, food, drink and fun, with live drawing, gourmet pupu and wine from Whole Foods, and music by Stephanie Keiko Kong, followed by a performance of the current production, Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre.
Kumu Kahua Theatre Hosts DRAW THE LINE 2/17
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 30, 2012
To help fund the operation of Kumu Kahua Theatre's 41st season, Hawai'i artists are putting their support on paper, with the fundraising event Draw the Line.