When Reb Beau Allen was handed the script for famed pidgin author Lee Tonouchi’s Echoes of Dat Red Guitar, it..
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You’ve seen Thomas Deir’s hand-painted tile murals splashing an aqua seascape teeming with reef life onto schools, hotels and restaurants..
Art lifts a mirror to society, and perhaps nowhere more conspicuously than through the medium of the One-Minute Play Festival...
It’s a scintillating duo: One of the most iconic of all antiheroes versus the Queen of Evil. Alongside them are..
Nothing says entertainment like glowing lights and a cozy space. On the outskirts of downtown’s urban wasteland, Dole Cannery boasts..
A several-year drought is about to be replenished by a deluge of creativity. The brilliant costumery of IONA’s Cheryl Flaharty..
In the study of psychology, there’s a lot of interest in twins — it’s that nature versus nurture discussion. If..
There’s a new kid on the block when it comes to film festivals, and this one does more than entertain...
You Can’t Take It With You is rife with fluffy, feel-good absurdity. But behind all the basement fireworks explosions, the..
Pele dances, a train of molten lava blazing in her wake. Hawaiian war god Ku flexes his chest in haka..
A nebulous swirl of images rushes forth anytime someone mentions their theatrical career in New York or Los Angeles. For..
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at TAG is reason to celebrate community theater in Hawaii. It’s not only theater about the..
“Meteoric,” as in a lightspeed burst of wildly spooftacular (yes, I did just say that) freneticism. Peter and the Starcatcher..
All is as it should be at the Portuguese Consulate in Bordeaux, France. Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes is on..
Crouching tiger” and “hidden dragon” aren’t just slick Asian martial arts terms. Tiger and dragon represent the balance between yin..
What’s more surprising? That UH Kennedy Theatre is about to put on shows entirely in the Hawaiian language or that..
Nowhere in modern history have race relations been more incendiary, and the move toward social justice more palpable, than in..
A ghostly captain seeking redemption through true love, his female admirer, her jilted suitor, along with her money-driven dad and..
At first, the set of My Name is Gary Cooper is a cause for celebration. Using a grass skirt aesthetic,..
Becky’s New Car at Manoa Valley Theatre idles a while before it gets revving, but once it’s in full throttle..