The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Horton Foote (“The Young Man From Atlanta,” 1995), frequently wrote about small southern towns similar to the one of his birth: Wharton, Texas. Although “The Trip to Bountiful” was a critically acclaimed Broadway hit and a Tony Award-winning ...
In 1948, theater critic Robert Kemp reviewed several “semi-official” shows that had crashed the arts and cultural festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. Kemp added a page-two supplement in his weekly column with the header “Round the Fringe.” The name stuck and in the coming decades ...
In October of 2016, local actor and dramatic coach Robert Angelo presented his solo-show production of “Clarence Darrow” at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center in Kahului. This weekend he will be reviving that production at the intimate ProArts Playhouse in Kihei. When I last interviewed him ...
As jam-packed as 2017 was with live theatrical events, 2018 is shaping up to be even busier. The next four weeks will offer more than a dozen local and touring performances, but that’s nothing compared to the eight Maui-produced plays scheduled for March. Five youth theater productions ...
Show business traditionally takes a holiday at the end of the year, and a lot of show people holiday on Maui. Because local stages are relatively dark this time of the year, I borrowed an idea of former Backstage columnist Sky Barnhart from 2011. It has become one of my favorite columns to ...
Just as Bill Maher has made it a tradition to perform on Maui every New Year’s Day for the past six years, interviewing him over the holidays has become a personal tradition and a conversation I thoroughly enjoy. I asked him if there was anything his fans would be surprised to find out ...
