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Honolulu : Theaters & Music Venues

Top 10 Theaters & Music Venues

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1. Army Community Theater

Though it’s located on a military base, this venerable organization is a true community theater, attracting actors and audiences from around the island. Their standard fare is the familiar musical.
2. Hawai’i Theatre Center

This one-time movie theater has been wonderfully renovated, and now offers a full and varied season of everything from hula hālau fundraisers to visiting dance companies.
3. Kumu Kahua

The focus of this 100-seat experimental theater is new work from around the Pacific.
4. Tenney Theater

A small theater that hosts frequent choral recitals.
5. Neal S. Blaisdell Arena

When Honolulu lands a rock show or traveling circus, this basic hall is where it happens.
6. Neal S. Blaisdell Concert Hall

The 2,185-seat concert hall is home of the Honolulu Symphony, the Hawai’i Opera Theater, Ballet Hawai’i’s annual holiday Nutcracker , and most other symphonic events.
7. Mamiya Theater

Mamiya, named after the pioneering heart surgeon who endowed it, is used for recitals, dance, and performances.
8. John F. Kennedy Theater

The campus theater includes a 600-seat main theater and a smaller Earle Ernst Lab Theater. The season includes plays and musicals, and Kabuki and Noh Japanese theater.
9. Mānoa Valley Theatre

This small but highly respected theater is a former church hall out in a graveyard in misty Mānoa Valley.
10. Diamond Head Theater

The largest of the community theaters offers beloved musicals to pidgin English fairy tales, contemporary drama to comedy.