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Plays about life in Hawaiʻi.
Plays by Hawaiʻi playwrights.
Plays for the people of Hawaiʻi.

 
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Kimo the Waiter

WRITTEN BY LEE CATALUNA
NOVEMBER 7 - DECEMBER 8, 2024

Kimo waits tables while pursuing his dream of acting professionally in the 1980s—but he’s always too brown, or not brown enough. During a time when there were few roles for people of color, except for local commercials, those television images of Hawaiʻi people were, in some cases, even more limiting than Hollywood's idea of what it meant to be from Hawaiʻi. Kimo's quest is funny, frustrating and totally relatable as he tries to break free from stereotypical images of island characters.


Southernmost

WRITTEN BY MARY LYON KAMITAKI
JANUARY 23 - FEBRUARY 23, 2025

For former fisherman Wally Chaves, who lives with his retired wife Becky in the familiar hills of Ka'u at the southernmost tip of the Big Island, planting keiki trees for a coffee farm is giving him new life. When daughter Charlene visits with her girlfriend Jessica—Wally calls her “one vegetarian lesbian”—everything begins to get unstable. But when earthquakes start to really shake things up, should they stay or should they go?


THE MAGIC OF POLLY AMNESIA

WRITTEN BY TONY PISCULLI
MARCH 27 - APRIL 27, 2025

Polly Amnesia—orphan, magician, punk—takes the stage for her one-woman magic show. Throughout her act, she attempts to sort hope from delusion, dreams from bullshit and true magic from trickery as she recounts her quixotic quest to solve the mystery of her own identity and the family that abandoned her. But in tonight’s performance, something is going terribly wrong...

 
 

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Our Digital Stage

Kumu Kahua Theatre presented a portion of our 50th and 51st Seasons virtually. We also launched a variety of online exclusive content, and hosted new digital play festivals in partnership with creative collectives around the country.

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