Tag archive for Maui Onstage

Run like greased lightning to get your tickets for Maui OnStage’s “Grease”
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Performances run February 24 through March 11; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm / Sundays at 3pm;  Iao Theater (68 N. Market St., Wailuku); $15/$22/$40
Guest directed and choreographed by Brian Swasey from New York, and …

THIS WEEK’S PICKS:
“IN MATTERS OF STYLE SWIM WITH THE CURRENT; IN MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE, STAND LIKE A ROCK”  (Thomas Jefferson)
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MON., NOV 14 – Every second Monday of the month there’s a free show at the historic Iao Theater. MauiOnstage (i.e. the theater’s nonprofit stewards) call …

Miller, Miller On The Wall
>>> Maui OnStage presents All My Sons — an ONO! (one night only) production
>>> (Monday) August 8, 6:30pm
>>> Iao Theater, Wailuku; free
>>> 808-242-6969; mauionstage.com
Thanks to his mother’s alert reading, playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman; The Crucible) based his 1947 …

Free Screening: “All That Jazz” (1979)
Friday (June 17), 7:30pm doors / 8pm show, Iao Theater, Wailuku; free
A semi-autobiographical musical by director Bob Fosse, inspired by the melee of simultaneously producing his film Lenny and Broadway production Chicago. Starring Roy Scheider (as Joe Gideon, a womanizing …

A good-sized crowd gathers outside the ‘Iao Theater, ahead of the haunted house’s opening.

Friday night’s 6pm show sold out quickly, but a slew of performance times remain.

Alexis and Randall, manning a colorful box office.

Moaning zombies shuffling about outside, early-on eliciting screams (and a few photos) …

CAUGHT IN A CELLULOID JAM
Slip into a pair of thigh-highs and snap the clasps on your garter belt, it’s time again for the ‘Iao Theater’s annual free screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, TONIGHT! Following Wailuku First Friday festivities (happy 20th birthday, Requests!), …

Weekend Theater Round-up
Theater-loving Mauians are spoilt for choice this summer. If the artsy Market St. scene is your thing, head to Gallerie Ha for a special performance of WARGATE. Sponsored by the Maui Live Poets Society (MLPS), poet/actor Wide Garcia will perform his original–and satirical–two-act …

The most impressive dramatic role of all time? “Yeah, I’m playing the omnipotent voice of God…” Godspell is  a production that will rouse even the sleepiest attendees, boasting lots of room for creativity and improvisation, accompanied by a slew of rock music. This play is …

Broccoli Theater. Yum or Yuck?
Alexis Dascoulias, Maui OnStage director, describes Maui Onstage’s latest project, the production of “To Kill a Mockingbird” as ‘broccoli’ theater.  Maui On-Stage is not trying to make the audience fall out of their seats, but rather to continue to nourish the …

The most impressive dramatic role of all time? “Yeah, I’m playing the omnipotent voice of God…” Then again, I’m easily impressed, as my theater career has consisted of playing Dead Woman #3 in “Our Town,” as well as Violet Beuregarde in Seabury Hall Middle School’s production of “Charlie in the Chocolate Factory.” No matter what role you play,