Production History
Production History
Production History
Past Performances
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KENNEDY THEATRE PRODUCTION ARCHIVE
(Reverse Chronological List - Since 1913)
This legend is used to identify play premieres and original plays:
*Original Play
**First Production in English
+World Premiere
++First Production Outside New York
2025-2026
Mainstage
Dancing in the Diaspora - Celebrating 50 years of the Center for Philippine Studies [Dance Concert] (Perillo)
Panji and the Lost Princess [Wayang Listrik] (I Made Moja/Pauka/Reynolds)*+**
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
The Yellow Boat (Saar)
Dolls: A Toy Story (Bruce-Maldonado)*+
MFA/BFA Dance Concert - Intertwined | Unraveled
Lele Wale [Hana Keaka] (Mendez)*+
Late Night Theatre
Friends (Kōbō)
Fear & Misery in the Third Reich Workshop (Refuerzo)
2024-2025
Mainstage
Puana [Hana Keaka] (Baker)*+
RENT (Larson)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
4.48 Psychosis (Kane)
Metamorphosis [Dance Concert] (Kao/Miller)
MFA/BFA Dance Concert
I AM MULAN (Ung)*+
Late Night Theatre
Gothmass (Massengill)*+
Come Play with Us! New Play Festival (Rowe)*+
2023-2024
Mainstage
Are We There Yet, Baby? (Kao)
The Maiden Benten and the Bandits of the White Waves [Kabuki in English] (Mokuami/Iezzi)+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Kaisara [Hana Keaka] (Kaper)*+
The Water Station (Shōgo)
Glitter in the Paʻakai [Hana Keaka] (Tavares)*+
BFA/MFA Dance Concert
Late Night Theatre
Haku Wale (Tavares)
Eva Hamok (Mante)
2022-2023
(The Fall semster shows begain as limited live in-person audiences and during the spring semester all spacing restrictions had been lifted).
Mainstage
Form within a Form: Echoes and Reverberations (Miller)
20,000 Leagues Deep #Hawaii_ascending (Chan)*+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Chinee, Japanee, All Mix Up (devised/Ho)*+
Memorial Day (Donnelly)
Dance Dance Dance (Murakami/Ivanova)*+
Spring Footholds: Merge (Kao)
Late Night Theatre
Unspecified (Drackett)*+
Almost Theatre (Rowe/Morris, III)*+
Ordinary Days (Mahar/Drackett)
2021-2022
(The fall semester shows were performed on stage and streamed to devices due to Covid-19 and in-person performance restrictions. The spring semester shows had limited live audiences.)
Mainstage
He Leo Aloha [Hana Keaka] (Kaipulaumakaniolono)*+
Sphere, Mainstage Dance Concert (Kao/Miller)
Eddie Wen' Go: the story of the upside-down canoe (Lyman-Mersereau)
Ho'oilina [Hana Keaka] (Kahikina)*+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Interstellar Cinderella (Berkner/Kriger/Underwood)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Fassbinder/Tushingham)
Hawai'i Nō Ka 'Oi: a Sakamoto Celebration (Sakamoto)
Co-Motion, Footholds Dance Concert (Fisher/Perillo)
Late Night Theatre
We Emerge (devised)*+
The Human Pavilion (Seishin)*+
House Rules (Sarangay)*+
Keep it Brief: a festival of short works*+
2020-2021
(This season was performed remotely and streamed virtually to audience members due to Covid-19 and in-person performance restrictions. This was UHM's first virtual season.)
Mainstage
Getting Ready For Eddie [free video series](Branner)*+
Flowers of Hawai'i (Cataluna)
Dance Gallery
Remotely Kyōgen: Comedy Under the (virtual) Stars (Iezzi/Shigeyama)*+**
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Virtual Dance Performance I (Miller)
I'm Lot Lane (a solo effort) (Simpson)*+
Ondine (Giradoux/Wigglesworth)**+
Virtual Dance Performance II (Kao)
Late Night Theatre
I'm Leaving You My Feet (Dekker)*+
When We Were Young (Stone)*+
Waiting Game (Santos)*+
Running Out the Clock: a digital festival of student-written shorts *+
2019-2020
In March of 2020 the Covid-19 Global Pandemic shut down UHM campus. The effected shows are noted below.
Mainstage
'Au'a 'la: Holding On [Hana Keaka] (Baker)*+
The Last King of Bali [Wayang Listrik] (I Made Moja/I Ketut Wirtawan/Pauka/Reynolds)*+**
Rise Up! - CANCELLED due to Covid-19
Prime Time Series (Lab Theatre)
Keiki Kalo (Branner/Orozco Vargas)*+
Fall Footholds: Prism
The Maids (Genet)
The Moors (Silverman)
Winter Footholds: Kaleidoscope
Sueño (Rivera) - CANCELLED due to Covid-19
Late Night Theatre
It's the Grass that Suffers (Governale)*+
Leviathan (Houar)*+
The New Works Festival - A late night festival of staged readings *+
2018-2019
Mainstage
Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat (Based on Dr. Seuss's book, adapt. by Katie Mitchell)
A Midsummer Night's Bollywood Dream (adapted by Mitri and Bhatawadekar)
Integral Bodies (Kao/Wessendorf)*+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
The Good Person of Setzuan (Kushner adapt.)
Fall Footholds: Intersections
Spring Footholds: Glimpse
The Country Wife (Wycherley)
Late Night Theatre
It Comes in Threes: An Evening of Quick Comedies (Nottage, Durang, Ives)
Murder at the Victorian Estate: Improvised Murder Mystery (Steward)*+
Baby Shampoo (Houar)*+
Corpus Interruptus (Altman/Poblete)*+
Special Event - War of the Worlds: The 1938 Radio Script (Koch adapt.)
2017-2018
Mainstage
The Spitfire Grill
Taiko Drum & Dance: Hana Hou!
Fights & Delights: Three Chinese/Xiqu Comedies**
Nora (Bergman from Ibsen A Doll House, Trans./Adapted by Marker)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Special Event (on mainstage) - Art of the Chanter (Keali'i Reichel)
Fa'alavelave: The Interruption (Rivera) +
Spring Footholds: Transitions
Late Night Theatre
Mimes, Masks, and Miracles*+
Almost, Maine (Cariani)
Don't Be Absurd: An Evening of Existential Drama (Albee/Beckett)
Tony the Fantastic Fireman LIVE! One Night Only (Wessel)*+
2016-2017
This season was "out of the box" where most performances took place outside of Kennedy Theatre due to renovations. Antigone was performed outside on the makai side of KT. MemoryHouse:Dreams was performed in various areas of Kennedy Theatre. Twelfth Night was performed in the Campus Center Ball Room, Power & Folly was performed at Mid-Pac. Smile, You're Under Surveillance was performed on the mainstage with seating also on the mainstage space. Most Late Night Theatre performances were held in Studio S.
Mainstage
Antigone (TYA)
MemoryHouse: Dreams
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Power & Folly: Japanese Satire for the 21st Century*+**
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
A House Divided (Berg)*+
Winter Footholds
Smile, You're Under Surveillance (Wessendorf)*+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
24-Hour Play Festival+
The Thin Man on the Ladder (Neimi)*+
Issue One (Donato)*+
Night, Mother
2015-2016
Mainstage
Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim/Lapine)
Gorilla (Browne/Barnett)
Subali-Sugriwa: Battle of the Monkey Kings (I Made Sidia/I Ketut Wirtawan/Pauka/Reynolds)*+**
SHAZAM! Dance + Science (Annual Dance Concert)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
The Butterfly (Fardjam/Mofid/Laffoon)
Fall Footholds: In Sync, Out of Time
One Flea Spare (Wallace)
Spring Footholds: Streams
Late Night Theatre
The Cow is Outside the Fence "(30 Plays in 60 Minutes)"*+
Clowns After Hours*+
Cinematik (Donato)*+
Fire Horse (Yoo)*+
2014-2015
Mainstage
Blithe Spirit (Coward)
The BFG (Wood)
Lā'ieikawai [Hana Keaka] (Baker)*+
Dancing Off the Page (Annual Dance Concert)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Ruined (Nottage)
Fall Footholds
Joker (Liu) *+
Winter Footholds
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare/Shire)
Late Night Theatre
Upside Reverie
30 Neo-Futurist Plays from "Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes)"
One Night Stand*+
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)
2013-2014
Mainstage
Big Love (Mee)
Look Back: Move Forward (Annual Dance Concert)
Lady Mu and the Yang Family Generals (Jingju)
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip (David O/Doug Cooney)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
The Wild Party (Lippa)
Winter Footholds
very still & hard to see (Yockey)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Identity Crisis
Queens of the Night (Hung/Rogals)*+
Puppet Booth (Blok)
Summer
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Concert
2012-2013
Mainstage
The Giver (Lowry/Coble)
Uncle Vanya and Zombies (Chekhov/Wessendorf)*+
Taiko Drum and Dance
Thread Hell (Rio)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Fall Footholds
Handler (Schenkkan)
La Strada (Fellini/Pinelli/Zapponi)**
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Sonnets for an Old Century (Rivera)
The Raku-come, Rakugo! Show
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Shanley)
A Lovely Violent Ghost Haiku with Gun (Yockey)
Special
The Intergalactic Nemesis Live-Action Graphic Novel - Book One
Summer
Living the Art of Hula
Samulgwangdae, Dance and Drums of Korea
Journeys: Asia Pacific Dance Festival
2011-2012
Mainstage
Oklahoma! (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
The Genteel Sabai - Indonesian Randai**
Ocean's Motion+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Bug (Letts)
Fall Footholds
Half-Perched Dangerously Baked, Episode XVI (Vandermolen)*+
Winter Footholds
reasons to be pretty (LaBute
Late Night Theatre
Stop Kiss (Son)
Hot 'n' Throbbing (Vogel)
Cop-Out (Guare)
Ubu Cocu (Jarry)
Summer
Happy Eva Afta (Matsumoto) (Outreach College Production)
Damien (Morris) (Outreach college Production)
2010-2011
Mainstage
Hands Percussion Team (East-West Center production)
Western Theatre Rep:
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Dancing Greener: Recycle, Renew, Recreate
The Vengeful Sword Ise Ondo Koi no Netaba (Chikamatsu Tokusô, Tatsuoka Mansaku, Namiki Shôzô II)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Tarradiddle Tales (Flora B. Atkin)
Fall Footholds
Love2 (Siobhán Ní Dhonacha)*+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
The Beginning of the Ed (W. M. Balou)
Heaven Below Earth Above (Marcus Lee and cast)*
Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Václav Havel)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Edward Albee)
Summer
Black Blocks Black Box III (Lab Theatre)
Once Upon One Noddah Time (Matsumoto) (Outreach College Production)
Asia-Pacific Dance Festival (Outreach College Production)
2009-10
Mainstage
When the Cassowary Pooped (Montgomery/Belknap)+
The Sound of Ecstasy and Nectar of Enlightenment (East-West Center production)
The Homecoming (Pinter)
The White Snake (Jingju)
Dancing Green (Annual Dance Concert)
The Judith of Shimoda (Brecht)**
Mahagonny Songspiel (Brecht/Weill)
From the Horse's Mouth Hawaii (outside production)
Kabu Ni Vanua: Dance and Music from Fiji (East-West Center production)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Fall Footholds
Etta Jenks (Meyer)
Appalachia Hawaiʻi (Madden)*+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Nocturnal Wanderer (Xingjian)
Exposed: This is a Play (MacIvor) and The Natalia Gallery
I Have Space Issues (Johnson)
Madge's Shimmy Shack (Tanner)*+
Summer
Faustworks (Outreach College Production)
The 14th Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company (Outreach College production)
Keiko Fujii Dance Company (Outreach College production)
Ballet Hawaii (Outreach College Production)
Black Box Black Blocks II (Lab Theatre)
2008-09
Mainstage
The Little Snow Fox (DeMoville)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Sumida River (Sumidagawa)
Dance: Roots and Offshoots
Drums and Drama: Mask Dance from Sri Lanka (touring production)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Rakugo (touring production)
Fall Footholds
Snow Day (Pleviak)*+
Translations (Friel)
Winter Footholds
The Good Terrorists (Klapatauskas)*+
Late Night Theatre
Stop the Clocks
What (Hickey) and Learning to Walk (Ionesco)
Seascape with Sharks and Dancer (Nigro)
Wiley and the Hairy Man (Zeder)
Summer
Black Box Black Blocks I (Lab Theatre)
2007-08
Mainstage
Kraken Ka the Komodo Dragon and other Pacific Rim Dragon Tales (DeMoville)*+
Man of La Mancha (Wasserman, Leigh, Darion)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in "Peter and the Wolf"
A (Balinese) Tempest (Reed)
Atamira Dance Collective
Annual Dance Concert
The Servant of Many Masters (adapted from Goldoni)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Wild Man (Xingjian)
Fall Footholds
Rejoice in the Lamb (DeMoville)*+
Antonio Fava in Pucinella's War
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Mercury Science Fiction Theatre (Bisson and Patrick-Kelley)
Steve Martin's Naughty Bits (Martin)
Rumi (Sills and Barks)
art/overcome*
Summer
Pacific People: An Evening of Telling Lives
SalmulGwangDae
2006-07
Mainstage
Skupper Duppers (Atkin)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in Circus!
Kyogen:
Hakama for Two (Futari Bakama)
The Six Jizô Statues (Roku Jizô)
Three Pillars (Sanbonbashira)
A Measure of Courage (Chigiriki)
Dances from the Heart/Land
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Fall Footholds
Fish Head Soup (Gotanda)
In the Heart of America (Wallace)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Share a Secret*+
Thom Pain (Eno)/Conviction (Ruocco)
A Matter of Life and Death: An evening of original theatre
Performing Your Life: Cross Cultural (Shepard)
Death Row 1, Seats 2 and 3 (Klapatauskas)*+
In Cahoots!: Explorations in Collaboration
Volplane/In Cahoots/Text
2005-2006
Mainstage
Boy Who Tricked the Moon (Grauer) Cancelled due to Mold Cleaning in the Theatre
Battle of Will (Gaudé)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets: The Wonderful World of Puppets
Women Generals of the Yang Family (Jingju)**
Annual Dance Concert: Dance Connection and Extension
Rhinoceros (Ionesco)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Vinegar Tom (Churchill)
Fall Footholds
Little Shop of Horrors (Ashman and Menken)
The Ravanayana (Richard)+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
No Exit (Sartre)
Hamletism (Wong)+
A Letter to My Mother at the End of the World (DeMoville)
Summer
Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (Ernst Lab Theatre):
Much Ado About Nothing
Antony and Cleopatra
Comedy of Errors
2004-2005
Mainstage
How da B52 Cockroach Learned to Fly (Matsumoto)
Manoa Valley (Sakamoto)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets: Circus!
Luck and Loss: Manandin's Gamble - Indonesian Randai**
Annual Dance Concert: Swoop, Tumble, Fly: The Art of Motion
twelf nite o' WATEVA (Benton)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Philemon (Jones and Schmidt)
Fall Footholds I
Fall Footholds II: You Are the Mirror
Jaguar Priests: Our Culture is a Myth (Ellauri)*+
The Odyssey (Falls and Beattie)
Pandora & the Seven Deadly Sins (Wormser)*+
Spring Footholds: Moving Images
Late Night Theatre
The Cyclops (Euripides, translation Roche)
This Is My House (Covalt and Bolieu)*+
The Captive (Lewis)
Arabian Night (Schimmelpfennig)
Summer
Hawaii Shakespeare Festival (Ernst Lab Theatre):
Winter's Tale
Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
2003-2004
Mainstage
The Paper Bag Princess and Other Stories (Munsch, Adapted by Watts)
'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Ford)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets: The Wonderful World of Puppets
Betty's Summer Vacation (Durang)
Annual Dance Concert: Music, Art, and Dance Fest
Nozaki Village (Chikamatsu)**
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Moral (Kisaragi)
Fall Footholds
Masked Balls (Wright)*+
Ghost Sonata (Strindberg)
Ashes to Ashes (Pinter) and Far Away (Churchill)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Agamemnon (Berkoff)
The Successful Life of 3 (Fornes)
The Most Massive Woman Wins (George)
Fair Rosamund and Her Murderer (Nigro) and Necropolis (Nigro)
Summer
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company: A Legacy in Hawaiʻi for 45 Years
2002-2003
Mainstage
The Boy Who Stole the Stars (Wiles)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes/McLeish translation)
Kyogen: Laughter for All Time
Jim Gamble and His Puppets "Celebrate America!"
Dance Korea!
The Robbers (Schiller, MacDonald translation)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Fine Dancing (Hereniko)
Footholds I: Dancing Voices
Darkweed (Poage)*+
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Footholds II: Young Choreographers on Stage
Footholds III: Fly High Fall Silently
Late Night Theatre
Hysterical: A Short History of the Vibrator (Wright)*+
Crave (Kane)
Tongues/Savage Love (Shepard and Chaikin)
Chase (Ellauri)*+
Summer
Theatre closed for ADA renovations: addition of chairlift, relocation of wheelchair seating, bathroom renovations
2001-2002
Mainstage
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Annual Dance Concert: Bigger Than Life!
Judge Bao and the Case of Qin Xianglian (Jingju)**
Crimes of the Heart (Henley)
Eco-Circus (Yamamoto Hackler & P Hunt)*+
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in Circus
A Concert of Beijing Opera Highlights
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
The Clown of God (Adaptation by Branner)*+
Master and Margarita (van Itallie from Bulgakov novel)
The Little Prince (Saint-Exupéry, adapted by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar)
Winter Footholds
Spring Footholds
Kneeling Deeply to Rise*+
Late Night Theatre
Edmond (Mamet)
Karmic Slave: Trapped on the Wheel of Reincarnation (Morinaka)*+
What Keeps Me Here (Mamet, Pelfrey, Rivera, Silner, Brown)
The Yellow Wallpaper (Akiyama & Wormer, adapted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman novel)*+
Summer
The Paper Bag Princess (Watts)
2000-2001
Mainstage
No One Will Marry A Princess With A Tree Growing Out of Her Head (Brill/Jackson)
La Bête (Hirson)
Umbuik Mudo and the Magic Flute (Traditional Randai)**
Annual Dance Concert: Alumni Fest!
Faust I & II (Goethe, translation MacDonald)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets presents Peter and the Wolf
The African Tragedian (Peters/Touring Show)
Doug Varone and Dancers (Touring Show)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Blood Wedding (Lorca)
Fall Footholds
Machinal (Treadwell)
Pharaoh's Daughters (Shofner)*+
Spring Footholds
Buddhist Ritual Song & Dance (Touring Show)
Late Night Theatre
Flipsides of Desire (Evans)*+
A Way Home (Carr)*+
Dream-Tease (Kharms)
Zanni Got His Gun (Pisculli)*+
Summer
The Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings (McCaslins adaptation)
1999-2000
Mainstage
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Concert
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
The Snow Queen and the Goblin (King)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in the Wonderful World of Puppets
Korean Dance and Music: Tradition and Adaptation
The Fantastic Normal Gentlemen (Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble)
Annual Dance Concert: Dance 2000
The Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka (Sosuke/translation Iezzi)**
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Stoppard)
Crow and Weasel (Leonard)
Fall Footholds
Strindberg in Repertory: Easter/The Ghost Sonata (Strindberg)
A Flight of Dragons*+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Universal Wolf (Schenkar)
Private Eyes (Dietz)
Pangaean Dreams: A Shamanic Journey (Rosenthal)
Christie in Love (Brenton)
Summer
The Summer Festival: A Mirror of Osaka (Sosuke/translation Iezzi)** Revival
In the Clear Blue Sea (Ohia Productions Touring show)
1998-99
Mainstage
Heavenly Chanting - Amis Artists from Taiwan
The Arkansaw Bear (Harris)
The Story of Susanna (Kneubuhl) *+
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in Hansel and Gretel
Celebration (Schmidt, Jones)
Annual Dance Concert - Dancing on the Edge
Nikimalika (Millado) *+
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Acting is Believing (de Vega)
Fall Footholds
Guano Dell'Amore (Pisculli) *+
A Lie of the Mind (Shepard)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Death (Allen)
Ghost Stories: Believe it or Not!
Shoes (Maneerat)
Late Night Science Fiction Double Feature II
Other
Shakespeare's Birthday Party
1997-98
Mainstage
Bye Bye, Hana Buttah Days *+
Da Taming of Da Shrew (adapted from Shakespeare)*+
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in Peter and the Wolf
Silang Tan Mu-Love and Loyalty (Jingju)**
Annual Dance Concert-Creature Feature
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Blue Bird Rhapsody *+
Fall Footholds
Spring Footholds
The Waiting Room (Loomer)
The Maids (Genet)
Kaspar (Handke)
Late Night Theatre
The Devil and Billy Markham (Silverstein)
Mohala Ka Lehua (Baker)*+
Late Night Science Fiction Theatre (Bradbury/Pisculli)
Relative Gravity *+
Other
Shakespeare's Birthday Party
Summer
School 4 Scandal (SPEBE production)
Antigone (Anouilh - SPEBE production)
1996-97
Mainstage
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Kabuki Mikado (Brandon and Company) *
Jim Gamble and His Puppets presents The Nutcracker
Goodnight Desdemona [Good Morning Juliet] MacDonald
Impulse! Dance and the Drum
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck/Galati)
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Baal (Brecht)
eMotion.s-German Lineage in Modern Dance
Fall Footholds
Twilight Crane (Kinoshita)
The Art of Dining (Howe)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Barefoot Fugue (Shogo) **
Canticles of Salvation (DeBlieck) *
Dionysus 96 (Euripides)
The Misadventures of Paka and Lolo *
Welcome to the Moon (Shanley)
Border (Wray)
Other
Shakespeare's Birthday Party
1995-96
Mainstage
Das How Come (Matsumoto)*+
Marriage (Gogol)
Balinese Gamelan, Topeng, Kecak
Let's Dance! (Annual Dance Concert)
Omanju (Houston) *+
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in the Greatest Little Show on Earth
Special
Dragon Quest (Schmiedl) *+
Performed at Andrews Amphitheatre
Earle Ernst Lab Theatre
In August 1995 the Kennedy LAB Theatre was renamed the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre in honor of Dr. Earle Ernst, founder of the Department and former chair, who passed away in the summer of 1994.
Prime Time Series (Earle Ernst Lab Theatre)
Oleanna (Mamet)
Fall Footholds
Dragonsong (McCaffrey, adapted by Elliot)
Malady of Death (Duras)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
I Stand Before You Naked (Oates)
Queer Cabaret (DeBlieck)*
El Cepillo de Dientes - The Toothbrush (Diaz)
Reckless (Lucas)
Silk Girl in Blue Deserted (Gilbert/Luhrmann)
The Phoenix Lovers Fireshow (Thelin and company)
Other
Shakespeare's Birthday Party
Summer
Sakura-The Bandit Princess (Tashiro)
Rakugo in English!
Fortinbras (Blessing)
Alms for Oblivion
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare)
1994-95
Mainstage
D-Force (Schmiedl) *+
Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire (Sakamoto) *+
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in "Carnival of the Animals"
Annual Dance Concert
Sukeroku: Flower of Edo (Tsuuchi Jihei II)
Einstein Talks Like a Regular Guy (Russell Dowd) *+
Prime Time Series (Lab Theatre)
Rashomon (Akutagawa)
Betrayal (Printer)
Fall Footholds
Youth Theatre Rep.
Wanderings (Schmeidl) *+
When the Wild Smiled (McCarthy) *+
Arkansaw Bear (Harris)
Dream Play (Strindberg)
The Night of the Amazons (Saraos/Nobori) *+
Spring Footholds
Late Night Theatre
Bent (Sherman)
Ubu (Jarry)
Write Before Your Eyes (improv)
Conquest of the South Pole (Karge)
Suitcase and Man/Stick (Kobo Abe)
Dark is the Night (Popovic)
Other
Shakespeare's Birthday Party
Summer
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
The Heydrich Covenant (Moore) +
Love Letter from the Licensed Quarter (Chikamatsu)
Life is a Dream (de la Barca)
1993-94
Mainstage
Noodle Doodle Box (Maar)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare)
On the Verge (Overmyer)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in ___
Shajiabang: Spark Amid the Reeds (Model Revolutionary Beijing Opera) **
Speed the Plow (Mamet)
Spring Dance Concert
Prime Time Series (Lab Theatre)
The Baltimore Waltz (Vogel)
Woyzeck (Buchner)
Fall Footholds
Spring Footholds
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht)
Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell *
Late Night
8×10 Glossy (Dreher)
Forget Him (Fierstein) and The Well of Horniness (Hughes)
The Colored Museum (Wolfe)
Jacques and His Master (Kundera)
Voices (Rame and Fo)
Acts to Grind *
Other
Uncle Willy Wants You! - Shakespeare's Birthday Party
1992-93
(Late Night Theatre debuted this season using the LAB theatre in late night time slots)
Mainstage
Once Upon One Noddah Time(Matsumoto)*+
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
The Legend of Prince Lanling (Xuehua Hu)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in Peter and the Wolf
Annual Dance Concert
Laundry & Bourbon and Lonestar (McLure)
Valley of the Doll's House (Split Britches Company)
Prime Time Series (Lab Theatre)
Fall Footholds
Kvetch (Berkoff)
Eurydice
The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs (Benmussa)
The Tempest: Island Bound (Shakespeare adaptation)
Spring Footholds
Late Night
The Conduct of Life (Fornes)
Politicians, Elections, and Other Obscenities
The Raven (Poe adaptation)
The Mystery of Irma Vep (Ludlam)
Backstage (Shimizu Kunio)
Beirut (Bowne)
Other
A Tribute to Halla Pai Huhm: Korean Dance in Hawaii
The Bard and I (Shakespeare)
Fowl Play
Serendipity: a Non-Traditional Dance Concert
Lesbians Who Kill (Split Britches Company)
1991-92
Mainstage
Once Upon One Time (Matsumoto)*+
The Blind Giant is Dancing (Sewell)
The Slaying of Gavaka! (Doyle)*+
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in the Wonderful World of Puppets
West Side Story (Bernstein, Sondheim, Robbins)
The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Members of the National Bunraku Theatre of Japan)
Spring Dance Concert
Prime Time Series (Lab Theatre)
Man To Man (Karge)
Young Choreographers
Creative Contamination
The Tales of The Lost Formicans (Congdon)
Rep
A Monster Has Stolen the Sun (Malpepe)
Li K'uei Tightens His Belt (Doyle)*+
Children of War (Adapted from Time magazine article by Roger Rosenblatt)
Other
Once Upon One Time (Revival- Summer)
Passages (Summer)
Masters of Asian Dance (Summer)
Lhamo Folk Opera of Tibet
1990-91
Mainstage
Bye Bye, Hana Buttah Days*+
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare)
Sexual Perversity in Chicago & The Duck Variations (Mamet)
The Road To Tokyo! (Brandon, Shaughnessy)*+
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in "The Greatest Little Show on Earth!"
Blood Relations (Pollock)
Spring Dance Concert
Lab
The Whaler*+
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)
Young Choreographers
American Child*+
BFA Dance Concert (Allen, Blair, Chun, Erquiza, Joaquin, Shimabuku, Smith-Leonardson, Williams)
Other
Potato People (Summer)
Yu Tangchun-The Jade Hall of Spring (Revival- Summer)
Miyagi Koto Performing Company (Summer)
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Concert (Summer)
1989-90
Mainstage
Monkey Magic (Aurand Harris)*+
The Tempest (Shakespeare)
Islands *+
Jim Gamble & His Puppets in "Peter & the Wolf"
Yu Tangchun-The Jade Hall of Spring (Beijing Opera) **
The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht)
Spring Dance Concert
Lab
Ghosts (Ibsen)
Young Choreographers
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)
Fool for Love (Shepard)
Elizabeth I
MFA/BFA Dance Concert (Carter, Rowe, Fry)
Other
20th Annual Shakespeare Birthday Celebration
Na Kulaiwi (Hawaiian Music concert- Summer)
Men Dancing (Lizenbery - Summer)
Uzbek Puppet Theatre of the USSR (Summer)
Ethnosummer '90 Fest. of Music and Dance (Summer)
Little Women The Tragedy, performed by the Split Britches Company from New York (Summer)
1988-89
(25th Anniversary Season at Kennedy Theatre)
Mainstage
Mother Hicks (Zeder)
The Blood Knot (Fugard)
The Miser (Moliere)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets
Anniversary Dance Concert
The Complete Oresteia (Aeschylus)
Noh/Kyogen (The Pining Wind, Buaku The Bold, Tricked By A Rhythm) with guests Nomura Mansaku and Nomura Shiro) **
Lab
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Albee)
When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (Medoff)
MFA/BFA Dance Concert (Tani, Ramos)
Men Dancing (Lizenbery)
Young Choreographers
Young Man on a Rock (Brady) *+
Other
Waiting for Godot (Beckett- Summer)
The Conversion (Kneubuhl)
Overtones (Lee)
O'O: Hawaii (Charlot)
Lucky Come Hawaii (Shirota)
Pilipinas Circa 1907 (Summer)
Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
Guangdong Puppet Troupe (Summer)
1987-88
Mainstage
Talking Story (Laird, Jossem, Clark-Kenton)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
Oath to Freedom
Top Girls (Churchill)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Sondheim, Shevelove, (Gelbart)
Spring Dance Concert
Lab
Aunt Dan and Lemon (Shawn)
House of Bernarba Alba
Young Choreographers
MFA/BFA Dance Concert (Tani, Palombo, Chew)
Home in the Islands (Talisman, Kapono)
Lucky Come Hawaii (Shirota)
Paradise Bound (Hagino)
Chikamatsu's Forest (Sakamoto)
Ka'iulani (Nelson, Kneubuhl, Carroll, Page)
Other
The Seattle Repertory Theatre
Hogan's Goat (Alfred)
Tartuffe (Moliere)
Jim Gamble and His Puppets in "The Greatest Little Show on Earth!" (Summer)
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company (Summer)
The Grand Kabuki - A Messenger of Love in Yamato (Koi Bikyaku Yamato Orai) with Nakamura Senjaku (Chikamatsu- Summer)
SPEBE (Summer)
The World of Yeats
Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
Cosi Fan Tutti (SFO Opera)
Kanazawa Noh Company
Pro Musica Nipponia
1986-87
Mainstage
Streamers (Rabe)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Jasma (Indian folk play by Shanta Gandhi; guest director M.K. Raina)**
Othello (Shakespeare)
Narukami, the Thundergod (Namboku/Brandon)
Spring Dance Concert
Many Moons (Thurber)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Lab
Young Choreographers
BFA/MFA Dance Concert (Shiroma, O'Connor, Ahsing, Sarsona)
Tingalary Bird (Melwood)
Shakespeare Birthday Show
My Home Is Down the Street (Lum)*
Dead Ends (Clark-Kenton)*
Kaiulani (based on a poem by Robert Nelson)*
Stew Rice (Sakamoto)*
Other
The Dream of Kitamura
Austin on Tap
Sholom Aleichem (Summer)
SPEBE (Summer)
Ghost Sonata
Comedy of Errors
Shanghai Kunju Opera Troupe (Summer)
Coad Canada Puppets (Summer)
Nikolais Dance Theatre
1985-86
Mainstage
The Cross and the Sword (Brandon)*
Trudi and the Minstrel (Cullen)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Shakespeare)
The Learned Ladies (Moliere)
Spring Dance Concert
Quartermaine's Terms (Gray)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Lab
MFA Dance Concert (Cook & Parker)
Young Choreographers Dance Concert
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (Blake)
Godspell (Tabelak & Schwartz)
Other
An Evening of American Theatre: Buried Child (Shepard) Our Town (Wilder) The Glass Menagerie (Williams) Prisoner of Second Avenue (Simon) The Sandbox (Albee) Dirty Works at the Cross Roads
A "Happening" at Kennedy Theatre by Friends of Kennedy Theatre
The White Death (Therriault)*
Summer's War (Clark)*
Emmalehua (Kneubuhl)*
Twelf Nite O Wateva! (Benton)*
The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest (Chinese Opera) (revival- Summer)
Conversation with a Tramp (Stetson)
Beijing Acrobats (PRC)
Jackie Torrence, the Storyteller
The Woods (Mamet)
1984-85
(KT renovation during Fall semester)
Mainstage
UH Dance Faculty Informal Concert
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
The Phoenix Returns to Its Nest (Chinese Opera)**
Spring Dance Concert
rep
Ah, Wilderness! (O'Neill)
What the Butler Saw (Orton)
Right You Are! If You Think You Are (Pirandello)
Lab
Movement Signatures (Menczkowski)
The Arkansaw Bear (Harris)
Ain't I A Woman? (Maltby)
Other
Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan (Summer)
The Pearl Harbor Plays (A String of Pearls and Purple Hearts) (Clark)*
Foursome (Freen)*
Life of the Land (Sakamoto)*
Shakespeare Birthday Show
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company (Summer)
The Fisher King (Algie)*
1983-84
Mainstage
True West (Shepard)
Dance Concert (Moses Pendleton et al)
Take the Step (Haskell & Gaither)*
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
The Fantasticks (Schmidt & Jones)
Kabuki Twin-bill:
Fishing for a Wife (Mokuami-Pronko)
The Demon's Hand (Mokuami-Pronko)
Blithe Spirit (Coward)
Lab
Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks (Linney)
Sin Cha Hong Modern Dance
Kyogen O Hawaii (de Costa)*
Young Choreographers
MFA Dance Concert (Taluban & Lee)
Other
No Smile for Strangers (Heifer)*
Aala Park (Sakamoto)*
A Song for a Nisei Fisherman (Gotanda)*
Construction Unlimited (Russell)*
Chinese Magic Circus
Snoopy!!! (Schulz et al- Summer)
1982-83
Mainstage
Cordelia Victorious (Sorgenfrei)*
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
Wiley and the Hairy Man (Zeder)
Kapai-Kapai (Noer)**
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Allen)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Lab
Special Class (Kral)
The Ice Wolf (Kraus)
Dance Concert (Ahsing, Ronquillio, Leone)
The White Snake (Tian Han)
Young Choreographers Dance Concert
Wadizit? (Kuroda et al)
Bingo (Bond)
Special
Bunraku of Japan
Dance Concert (Sokolow)
The Servant of Two Masters (Goldoni)
Mornings at Seven (Osborn)
The Chalk Garden (Bagnold)
The Most Happy Fella (Loesser)
A Class "C" Trial in Yokohama (Cornish)*
18's & On the Wall (Wilkins)*
Strangers in Paradise*
1981-82
Mainstage
Dance Concert
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Women in Parliament (Aristophanes)
Manoa Valley (Sakamoto)*
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Clark)
Hoichi: Dark Tales of the Heike (Brandon)*
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
Theatre Magic (Hunt et al)*
Lab
Modern Dance Concert (Small, White, Haskell)
Richard III (Shakespeare)
MFA Dance Concert (Lai, Ma'ake, Yadao)
Evening of Improvisations (Mimi Wisnosky)*
Young Choreographers Dance Concert
Special
Carnival (Merrill & Stewart)
Dear Liar (Kilty)
Another Part of the Forest (Hellman)
Private Lives (Coward)
And The Soul Shall Dance (Yamauchi)*
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company
Ashes (Amano)*
Oranges Are Lucky (Lum)*
All Brand New Classical Chinese Theatre (Aw)*
Vanishing Shadows (Grant)*
Yoshitsune (Muriyama)*
1980-81
Mainstage
A Doll House (Ibsen)
Kennedy's Children (Patrick)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
The Imaginary Invalid (Moliere)
Dance Concert
The Rivals (Sheridan)
The Subscription List (Namiki)
Lab
The Bandit Princess (Tashiro)
And the Soul Shall Dance (Yamauchi)
Young Choreographers Dance Concert
Angel City (Shepard)
Taradiddle Tales & Travels (Atkins)
Progressions (Karen Masaki Dance Concert)
Special
Night and Day (Stoppard; ACT production)
The Little Foxes (Hellman; ACT production)
Private Lives (Coward)
Daniel Nagrin Jazz Show & Cakewalk Contest
Man of La Mancha (Wasserman, Leigh, Darion)
Shelter (Shapiro)*
First Annual Nuclear Weapons Beauty Pageant (Cohen)*
Changing Voices (Look)*
Murray Louis Dance Company
Kathakali Dance Drama (Clifford & Betty Jones)
Echo II (Shapiro)*
1979-80
Mainstage
The Mother (Gorki-Brecht-Carroll)
Jim Gamble & His Puppets
Ballet & Modern Dance Concert
Medea (Sorgenfrei)
School for Wives (Moliere)
Dracula's Treasure (Saunders)
Winter's Tale (Shakespeare)
American Buffalo (Mamet)
Lab
Patricia Clements Dance Concert for Children
Uncommon Women
Jacques Brel… (Ohana Room) (Blau- Shuman-Brel)
Old Times (Pinter)
Young Choreographers Dance Concert
Special
Bali Gugur shadow puppet play (Hon. Academy)
A Kennedy (Shapiro)*
The Waters of Kane (Pourchot)*
Famous Are the Flowers (Holt)
Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company
Modern Dance Concert
Wayang Kulit production
Nomura Kyogen troupe
University Dance Theatre Concert
Tandy Beal Dance Concert
Kyoto Noh show
Javanese Dance troupe
Symphony Canada
Richard Koob Dance Concert
Linda Jahnke Dance Concert
1978-79
Mainstage
In the Boom Boom Room (Rabe)
Miss Julie (Strindberg)
The Man of Mode (Etherege)
The Forty Seven Samurai (Takeda et al)**
Ballet and Modern Dance Concert
The Playboy of the Western World (Synge)
Lab
MFA and Faculty Dance Concert
Fishing (Weller)
Special
Daniel Nagrin Dance Concert
Bugaku troupe from Osaka
Our Lady in Rose Dore (Hansen)*
F and M (Russell; McShane; Cole; Clune)*
American Buffalo (Mamet)
Dan Wagoner Dance Concert
Quest of the Almost Knight (Tilroe)
Hawaii Dance Theatre Concert
Antigone (Sophocles)
Symphony Canada
What Is Today's Name (Murch)*
Now I Learn My ABC's (Russell)*
Mo'olelo Ki'i Lima (Nakamura)
Donna Pelle and Bryant Young Dance Concert
1977-78
Mainstage
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Dance Concert (ballet and modern)
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
Patchwork: It's a Great Day
The Animal Hunter (Abe/Brandon)**
Pygmalion (Shaw)
Lab
Asian Shadow Puppet Scenes
You and Me (MFA Clemetts & Adams)
Shadow of a Gunman (O'Casey)
The Last Unicorn (Olsen)*
Young Choreographers
Special
Hannah's Place (Patten)*
All Brand New Classical Chinese Theatre (Aw)*
Vanities (Heifner)
Captain Cook (A. Morris)*
Penca and Topeng Babakan
Mummenschanz
Have a Grumpish Holiday (Jones & Varga)
Butterflies Are Free (Gershe)
Korean National Dance Company
The Fishermen's Revenge (Peking Opera)
War Baby*
Two Asian Theatre Organization Productions
1976-77
Mainstage
The Legend of King O'Malley (Boddy & Ellis)
An Evening of Ballet (Firebird et al)
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck)
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare)
Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
The Puppet Man Steve Hansen
The Road to Kyoto! (Brandon & Foley)**
Adventures in the Garden (The Little Seed & Itsy Bitsy Spider)
Lab
The Player Queen (Yeats)
Young Choreographers
Deathwatch (Genet)
Special
Hawaii Dance Theatre
Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love (Hunter)*
On Finding Freakdom (Freen)*
Three By Chekhov (Marriage Proposal, Boor, Harmfulness of Smoking Tobacco)
Grandfather's Chair (Kermit Love)
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Company
Commonroom (Saylor)
The Travels of Heikiki (Kates)*
Hapa Hauole (Terrell)*
Paradise Tours (R.J. Morris)*
The Importance of Breasts (H. Brown)*
Adventures of Stud (Carroll)*
Reflections of the Mind's Eye (Adams, Kates, Babineau, Copi)*
As Time Goes By (Heacox)*
I Am a Curious Puppet*
Korean Shamanist Dances
Damien (A. Morris)
Martial Arts of Japan
Two Asian Theatre Organization productions
1975-76
Mainstage
Hippolytus (Euripides)
The White Snake (Peking Opera)
Oklahoma! (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
The Glass Menagerie (Williams)
The Rivalry (Corwin)
Shirley Moeng Dance Concert
Patchwork (Children's Theatre)*
Lab
AC/DC (Williams)
The Breasts of Tiresias (Apollinaire)
The Chairs (Ionesco)
The Lesson (Ionesco)
Ceilbert's Christmas
Chopsticks (Children's Theatre)*
Special
The Dispossessed (scenes from O'Neill)
Damien (Morris)*
Shakespeare Birthday Show
Hawaii Dance Theatre
Fenesta Che Lucive (Catalano)*
No Laff My Pilikia, Eh! (Heacox)*
Pro Patria Mori (Brown)*
The Dragon of the Six Resemblances (Morris)*
Dancers & Musicians of the Burmese Theatre
Royal Shakespeare Company
Sharing Dance and Theatre
Margo Sancken Dance Concert
To Find the Root (Fordham)*
Festival Dance Concert
The Ugly Duckling (Children's Theatre)
Yass Hakoshima Mime Concert
1974-75
Mainstage
A Gown for His Mistress (Feydeau)
The Mystery and the Passion (Scenes from Medieval drama)
Les Sylphides; Divertissements from Napoli; Can-Can (Ballet Concert)
The Beelzebub Sonata (Witkiewicz)**
The Scarlet Princess of Edo (Namboku; ACTF winner)**
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare)
Reynard the Fox (Farquez; play for children)
Lab
Young Choreographers Concert
W*O*M*A*N (scenes from Lysistrata, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Women, Calm Down Mother)
Chore-Collage
Special
The Promised Man (Ursic)*
Waiting For To Go (Catalano)*
Death of a Turkey (Saylor- Rohrbach)*
Magic Afternoon (Bauer)
Passion (Bond)
Mysteries and Smaller Pieces (Living Theatre)
Twelf Nite or Wateva! (Shakespeare & Benton; in pidgin)*
Lana's Party! B.Y.O.B.S(Terrell)**
Shakespeare Birthday Show
The Mask Drama of India
Birthnight (Saylor; revised)*
Kapakahi (Edlin; adapted from legend)*
Onoe Kikunobu Dance Concert
Modern Dance Concert
Da Buggah Scapin (pidgin adaptation of Moliere)*
Four Alone (Hunter)*
Five Pinter Plays: A Slight Ache, The Room, The Collection, The Dumb Waiter, The Lover)
1973-74
Mainstage
A Streetcar Named Desire (Williams)
The Country Wife (Wycherley)
A Dream Play (Strindberg; guest director Edward Payson Call)
Ulysses in Nighttown (Joyce)
The Vision of Vasavadatta (Sanskrit play; guest director Shanta Gandhi)
Metaphysical Circus (modern dance concert created by Carl Wolz)
Androcles and the Lion (play for Children)
Kyogen and Komai program, directed by Visiting Professor Mansaku Nomura
Lab
The Tooth of Crime (Shepard)
God Bless (Feiffer)
The Reluctant Princess (Thai legend for children)
Concert of Ballet and Modern Dance
No Exit (Sartre)
Kantan (Mishima) and Two Kyogen Plays
Special
Soul of Japan Dance Concert
Nell Fuson and Ko Yukihiro Dance Concert
Awaji Japanese Puppet Company
Susan Boxx Dance Concert
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare; in pidgin- Summer)
The Shakespeare Birthday Show
Play; Act Without Words I; All That Fall (Beckett- Summer)
Takako Asakawa and David Hatch Walker Dance Concert
Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev; dance concert for children by Patti Been)
And They Had Time for Tea (Baer)*
Commonroom (Saylor)*
Mother Eve's Astounding Apple Seeds (Herman)*
Halfway Road, Penang (Sarwar)*
Let's Go See the World (Bond)*
In the Alley (Sakamoto)*
Reunion (Toishigawa)*
1972-73
Mainstage
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare)
Coppelia (Delibes; guest dancers Noriko and Ko Kobayashi)
The Threepenny Opera (Brecht-Weill)
The Madman and the Nun (Witkiewicz)
Narukami (Kabuki; Matagoro Nakamura Guest Choreographer- Director)
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (Rabe)
Little Red Riding Hood (Children's opera)
The House of Blue Leaves (Guare)
Lab
Young Choreographers Concert
And Things That Go Bump in the Night (McNally)
The Trickster of Seville (DeMolina)
Special
Bella Lewitzky Dance Company
Topeng Dancers of Bali
Hiken & Richards: A Performance Face to Face
Da Kine Kyogen (Adapted from traditional Kyogen by Heacox)*
Pigeons (Rohrbach)*
Death of a Salesman (Miller- Summer)
Ethel Winter & Bill Ross Dance Concert
The Spell of the Giantess (Sarwar)*
Shakespeare Birthday Show
Aphrodite's Finger (Priebe)*
Ashes (Amano)*
A Crack in the Poi Pot (Doi)*
On the Tuesday Side of a Sunday (Ursic)*
The Strange Black Mass of Queen Cybelle (Larsen)*
Evelyn (Dubin)*
Birth of a Turkey (Saylor)*
Excerpts from a Non-Existent Play (Chuck-Chuck)
Damien (Morris)* (First version)
1971-72
Mainstage
Dido and Aeneas (Tate-Purcell)
Sganarelle (Moliere)
Betty Jones and Fritz Ludin dance concert
The Chalk Garden (Bagnold)
Indians (Kopit)
Black Dragon Residence (Peking Opera; directed by Visiting Professor Daniel Yang; regional winner college competition; went to Washington, D.C.)
The Peloponnesian War (Nagrin; performed by him)
The Trojan Women (Euripides)
Desire Under the Elms (O'Neill)
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (Lawrence-Lee)
Lab
The Trial of Mang Serapio (Dumol)
The Match Girl (Minoru Betsuyaku)
Phaedra (Racine)
Young Choreographers concert
The Maids (Genet)
After the Rain (Bowen)
Special
Edo Festival Company
P'ansori Korean Company
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra
Paul Taylor Dance Company
Shakespeare Birthday Show
Estrella (Filipino Zarzuela)**
The Roar of the Greasepaint-the Smell of the Crowd (Bricusse- Newley)
Onoe Kikunobu dance concert
The Lucifer File (Herman)*
The Song of Roland (Baer)*
Gambit for a Broken King (Cobb)*
Birthnight (Saylor)*
The Memory Book (Via)*
Munger (Priebe)*
Take It As It Is (Chuck-Chuck)*
Dr. Bad and His Magic Time Machine (Cobb)*
Listen to Mr. Wizard
(Kenneth Graham was Visiting Professor during the season)
1970-71
Mainstage
Oh What a Lovely War (Littlewood)
Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky-Sasa; with Bruce Marks and Toni Lander)
Loot (Orten)
Hay Fever (Coward)
Macbeth (Shakespeare; with Timothy Dalton)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Coriolanus (Shakespeare; with Paul Winfield and Cyril Cusack)
Lab
Saral and Shampa
Die at Dawn
Young Choreographers' Concert
Special
Karala Kalamandalam Kathakali troupe
The Cage (Barbwire Theatre Production)
Valentina Oumansky Dramatic Dance Ensemble
Noh/Kyogen Company
Nikolais Dance Theatre
Shakespeare Birthday Show
Famous Are the Flowers (Holt)*
Ethel Winter Dance concert
A View from the Bridge (Miller)
1969-70
Mainstage
Sukeroku (Jihei; Matagoro Nakamura, artistic advisor)
The Miser (Moliere)
Long Day's Journey Into Night (O'Neill)
The Birds (Aristophanes)
Arms and the Man (Shaw)
The Rose Tattoo (Williams)
University Dance Theatre concert
Other
Worth Martin dance concert
The Birthday Party (Pinter)
Saved (Bond- Summer)
Loot (Orten)
Betty Jones and Fritz Ludin dance concert
The Sandbox (Albee- Summer)
The American Dream (Albee- Summer)
1968-69
Mainstage
The Homecoming (Pinter)
The Crucible (Miller)
Mary Stuart (Schiller)
The Marriage (Gogol)
Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Friel)
Under Milk Wood (Thomas)
University Dance Theatre concert
Other
Journey to Bakuhl (Stout)*
Caligula (Camus)
Halfway Up the Tree (Ustinov)
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance (Arden)
The First Chamber Dance Quartet
University Dance Theatre ballet concert
Luv (Schisgal- Summer)
Dear Liar (Kilt- Summer)
Jean Erdman Theatre of Dance, with Byron Wheeler
Black Over Black (Bradshaw- Summer)*
1967-68
Mainstage
I Hear Ya Knocking But Ya Can't Come In (Longo- Summer)*
Don Juan in Hell (Shaw)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello; guest director Jon Jory)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Dance concert with Hazel Chung Hood
The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht)
Other
Fortune and Men's Eyes (Herbert)
The Pilot (Miyamoto)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Shevelove- Gelbert)
Honeymoon (Hufana)
Inside-Out (Sriranga)
The Memorial (Yoo)
Biedermann and the Firebugs (Frisch)
Joan Kelly dance concert
University Dance Theatre concert
The Homecoming (Pinter)
Gladys Bailin dance concert
Kaisahan Filipino dance company
Halla Huhm Korean dance company
Kinshi Japanese dance company, debut performance
1966-67
Mainstage
Arsenic and Old Lace (Kesselring- Summer)
Look Back in Anger (Osborne- Summer)
Stop the World (Bricusse-Newley- Summer)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Camelot (Lerner-Loewe)
Tartuffe (Moliere)
The Three Sisters (Chekhov)
In White America (Duberman)
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Dance concert
Other
The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca)
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (Joaquin)
Finian's Rainbow (Lane et al)
The Bacchae (Euripides)
Sotoba Komachi (Mishima)
Mekar Berduri (Hamidi)
The Damask Drum (Mishima)
Becket (Anouilh)
University Dance Theatre program of ballet and modern dance; first appearance by the group.
Rita Streich lieder recital
Hosho No troupe performances
Al Huang and Suzanne Pierce dance concert
1965-66
Mainstage
King Lear (Shakespeare; with Arnold Moss)
A Taste of Honey (Delany)
The Flies (Sartre)
Susannah (Floyd)
Everyman
The School for Scandal (Sheridan)
The Caretaker (Pinter)
White Tennis Shoes (Longo)
An Education (Tanaka)
Ghost, North Wind, and Man (Chao)
Rain (Colton-Randolph- Summer)
A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Moliere- Summer)
110 in the Shade (Schmidt-Jones- Summer)
The Gimmick (Abel)
Other
The Sound of Night (Kitani)
Three Cheers for Man!
(Mushanokoji)
She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith)
Four Plays for Dancers (Yeats)
Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey)
Ubu Roi (Jarry)
Ruth Currier dance concert
1964-65
Mainstage
Of Thee I Sing (Gershwin et al)
Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonnus (Sophocles)
Volpone (Jonson)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
The Knack (Jellicoe)
The Threepenny Opera (Brecht-Weill)
The Glass Menagerie (Williams- Summer)
Charley's Aunt (Thomas- Summer)
The Time of Your Life (Saroyan- Summer)
Other
Antigone (Anouilh)
The Children's Crusade (Brown)*
General Wings Incorporated (Jovinelli)*
Whither Thou Goest (King)*
A Small Song at Sawtooth (Berrigan)*
Manohra (Thai dance-drama)
1963-64
Mainstage
Benten the Thief (Mokuami)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (Kaufman-Hart)
(Of Thee I Sing had originally been scheduled, with Hamlet and Benten, in repertory, to open the new theatre; the musical was cancelled on the death of President Kennedy and the Kaufman-Hart comedy substituted.)
The Way of the World (Congreve)
The Typists and The Tiger (Schisgal)
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen; with Viveca Lindfors)
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams)
The Coach with the Six Insides by the Jean Erdman troupe
Other
The Underprivileged Planet (Brown)*
The Man Who Cut Off His Nose (Roffman)*
Spirit Island (Charlot)*
Variations in Pink and Blue (Jovinelli)*
Nomura Kyogen troupe
Kimio Eto and Suzushi Hanayagi
Shanta Rao and company
Kabuki performance demonstration by Onoe Kuroemon
Sahm-Chun-Li Korean performance
1962-63
Tartuffe (Moliere)
The Escaped Conflict (Manchego)*
The Devil Who Comes (Odegaard)*
The Puppet Master (Donnelly)*
The Sea Gull (Chekhov)
Endgame (Beckett)
The Mango Tree (Gargi)
Oh, Dad, Poor Dad (Kopit)
Twice a Bride (Peking Opera)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
(The Department moved from Farrington Hall to the new East-West Theatre-later named Kennedy Theatre, in the summer of 1963; Lysistrata was revived for invited audiences as a test production.)
1961-62
Shadowed Sabbath (Roffman)*
In the Alley (Sakamoto)*
The Brute (Chekhov)*
The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)
King Lear (Shakespeare)
John Gabriel Borkman (Ibsen)
Everyman
The Rivals (Sheridan)
Yerma (Lorca)
Jean Erdman Dance Concert
(Donald Swinney and Jean Erdman were Visiting Professors.)
1959-60
Hedda Gabler (Ibsen)
The Playboy of the Western World (Synge)
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
Sidewalk Cafe (Topham-Green)*
Quandary in Space (Fleece)*
Twilight of the Crane (Kinoshita)
Fumed Oak (Coward)
Candida (Shaw)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Right You Are (Pirandello)
1960-6l
Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)
Odai (Roffman)*
The Door (Donnelly)*
Bedtime Story (O'Casey)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Storm (Ts'ao Yu)
The Visit of the Old Lady (Durrenmatt)
Sacrifice (Tagore)
(Howard Cordery was Visiting Professor during the season.)
1958-59
Kantan (Zeami)
Kantan (Mishima)
A View from the Bridge (Miller)
The Fischbeck Tapestry (Hausmann)
The School for Wives (Moliere)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
The Silver Set (Roffman)*
An Act of Assassination (Caldeira)*
Amerika San (Wright)*
Thunder and Rain (Ts'ao Yu)**
(In the fall of 1959 the Department began its Great Plays Cycle-a plan to produce eight plays of special significance over a four-year period, after which the cycle was repeated. The plays in the Cycle were Oedipus Rex, Lysistrata, Everyman, Hamlet, King Lear, Tartuffe, Hedda Gabler, and The Cherry Orchard.)
1957-58
Winter in the Pass (Gurian)*
Under the Clock (Topham)*
Graduation Party (Roffman)*
The Shaming of the True (Fleece)*
The Madwoman of Chaillot (Giraudoux)
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
Death of a Salesman (Miller)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Kantan (Zeami)**
Kantan (Mishima)**
The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare)
(Hubert Heffner and Mordecai Gorelik were visiting Professors during the season.)
1956-57
Teatime (Fleece)*
One Dollar and Fifty Cents (Scoville)*
Moki, My Son (Wichman)*
The First Oyster (Fleece)*
Heartbreak House (Shaw)
Come a-Runnin' (Masuoka)*
The Iceman Cometh (O'Neill) (50th UH Anniversary Production)
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
1955-56
Give a Man a Book He Can Read (Topham)*
Hoomalimali (Mishima)*
Leaves ad Infinitum (Berrigan)*
Her Bottom Ain't No Good (Turek)*
Bus Stop (Inge)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Lady Windermere's Fan (Wilde)
Diary of a Scoundrel (Ostrovsky)
Love and Lunacy (Philip)
Down in the Valley (Weill-
Sundgaard)
The Telephone (Menotti)
The Festival (Spewack)
(William Angus was Visiting Professor during the season.)
1954-55
Life's Little Tragedies (Spencer)*
Asu Wakaru (Nakamura)*
Wharf (Scoville)
The Security Officer (Huggins)*
The Crucible (Miller)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
The Climate of Eden (Hart)
The Miser (Moliere)
The House of Bernarda Alba (Lorca)
The Seven Year Itch (Axelrod)
1953-54
The Ram (Sparks)*
Situation: Desperate Lazy Man (Bell)*
Where the Love Tree Grows (Ince)*
The Malo-Maker (Bell)*
The Lady's Not for Burning (Fry)
Ah, Wilderness! (O'Neill)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)
Gianni Schicchi (Puccini)
Peking Man (Ts'ao Yu)**
Outward Bound (Vane)
1952-53
My Heart's in the Highlands (Saroyan)
The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov)
Going Steady (Gibbs)*
Country Pie (Kubojiri)*
Root of Evil (Chang)*
Ripper Revolts (Bell)*
Benten Kozo (Mokuami)**
Man and Superman (Shaw)
The Damask Cheek (Morris-Van Druten)
1951-52
A Phoenix Too Frequent (Fry)
The Medicine Show (Walker)
Juno and the Paycock (O'Casey)
There Are Burglars and Burglars (Ashby)*
Kimo (Morris)*
Brek (Linn)*
The Contrast (Tyler)
Arsenic and Old Lace (Kesselring)
I Am a Camera (Van Druten)
(Richard Moody was Visiting Professor during the season.)
1950-51
Pursuit of Happiness (Langner)
Major Barbara (Shaw)
The House of Sugawara (Izumo)**
The Country Wife (Wycherley)
The Sign (Morris)*
The Vanguard (Pare)*
Brothers (Caldeira)*
Who Picks a Pretty Plum (Huntsberry)*
Private Lives (Coward)
Darkness at Noon (Kingsley)
(During the 1950-51 season Speech and Theatre were separated and the Department of Drama and Theatre established, offering BA and MA degrees; courses which had since the 1930s been offered under Speech or English came under the new Department's official control.)
1949-50
The Male Animal (Thurber-Nugent)
Street Scene (Rice-Weill)
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello)
Rosmersholm (Ibsen)
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
Fill the Grave (Steed)*
Operation Sharkbait (Langhans)*
The Netherworld vs. Hitler and Laycox (Steed)*
The Cat (Huntsberry)
First Lady (Dayton-Kaufman)
1948-49
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
The Three Sisters (Chekhov)
Lysistrata (Aristophanes)
Angna Enters program
The Good Woman of Setzuan (Brecht) (2nd American production)
The Return (Suyeoka)*
Al Modo Americano (Simpson)*
The River Sai (Kashiwamura)*
The Tolerant (Brown)*
Blithe Spirit (Coward)
1947-48
Hay Fever (Coward)
Night Must Fall (Williams)
The Defeated (Miyata)**
The Swan (Molnar)
Soo Yong program of monodramas
The Beggar's Opera (Gay)
Cherish the Thought (Reeves)*
Mama-san and the Russian Toast (Brown)*
The Burial (Erickson)*
The Lonely Rock (Morris)*
The Glass Menagerie (Williams)
1946-47
The Beautiful People (Saroyan)
The Carnival Theatre*
Ladies in Retirement (Percy-Denham)
R.U.R. (Capek)
Ke Kula Nui (Wilson-Nary)*
A Sunny Morning (Quinteros)
Hello Out There (Saroyan)
Reunion (Toishigawa)*
Agatha's April (Maney)*
1946
El (Atlas)
The Medicine Show (Walker)
I Can't Make Up My Mind (Clements-Ryerson)
Progressive Education (Bro)
1941-42
(Announced but cancelled:)
The Far-Off Hills (Robinson)
Scrambled Scandals
Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards (Chikamatsu)
The Yellow Jacket
(During the war years Maurice Evans and the Theatre Section of the Army Special Services prepared in Farrington Hall about l00 productions, including Macbeth and Hamlet; Farrington Hall was returned to the University in March 1946.)
1940-41
Missouri Legend
Namu Amida Butsu (Kurata)
Margin for Error (Boothe)
The Delightful Perfidy of Yen Ming (Catto)
1939-40
Brother Rat (Monks-Finklehoffe)
It Can't Happen Here (Lewis)
Androcles and the Lion (Shaw)
Marco Millions (O'Neill)
1938-39
The First Legion (Lavery)
The Idol Shaokung (Davis)
Izu No Ito (Wyman)
Bird Without Feather (Stiehl)
1937-38
A Thousand Years Ago (MacKaye)
The Quest of Shimosaka (Chikamatsu)
High Tor (Anderson)
Tovarich (Deval)
The Second Man (Behrman)
1936-37
Royal Koko (Stiehl)+
Winterset (Anderson)
Lei Pageant*
1935-36
The Darkness of the Dawn (Tsubouchi)**
Lady Precious Stream (Hsiung)**
Richard of Bordeaux (Daviot)
Coronation of Queen Lei (Gay-Kahananui)*
The Play's the Thing (Molnar)
1934-35
Yellow Jack (Howard-DeKruif)++
Tadanao (Hayashi)+
Scrambled Scandals of 1935*
Veil of Happiness (Clemenceau)**
Ke Kuapuu Alii (Shephardson)
1933-34
He Who Gets Slapped (Andreyev)
The Son of Chao (Stiehl)**
Scrambled Scandals of 1934*
Hizakurige (Kimura)
Queen Lei (Frear)
1932-33
Sakazaki, Lord of Dewa (Yamamoto)**
Where the Blue Begins (Morley)+
Blue Butterfly (Heitland)
Na Lei (Andrew)*
Brief Moment (Behrman)
1931-32
Uncle Vanya (Chekhov)
Right You Are (Pirandello)
Pi Pa Ki (Kao-Tong-Kia)
Namu Amida Butsu (Kurata)
Queen Lei (Frear)
1930-31
Holiday (Barry)
Queen Lei (Frear)*
The Faithful (Masefield)
1929
Polly With a Past (Middleton-Bolton)
The Broken Butterfly (Young-Tung)*
Trifles (Glaspell)
The Thrice Promised Bride Barbara
Tickless Time (Glaspell-Cook)
(Farrington Hall, at first called University Hall or Lecture Hall, opened in 1930; from May 1931 on the Theatre Guild was the campus producing organization-until it changed its name to Theatre Group in 1950. Regular seasonal production schedules, then, began in 1930-31, and records since then are virtually complete.)
1928
Icebound (Davis)
How the Story Grew
A Marriage Proposal (Chekhov)
Green Chartreuse
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare)
1927
The Admirable Crichton (Barrie)
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Eiffel Tower Wedding
The Four-Flushers (Kinkead)
A Night at the Inn (Dunsany)
Society Notes
Suppressed Desires (Glaspell-Cook)
Icebound (Davis)
The Man on the Kerb (Sutro)
Matintata (Langner)
Finders Keepers (Kelly)
The Trysting Place (Tarkington)
The Lights of Happy Land
A Dear Little Wife
Bedroom Suite
Six Cups of Chocolate
1926
Bargain Day
The Best Man
Little Columbine (Clements?)
Overtones (Gerstenberg)
Rosalie (Maurey)
So This Is London (Goodrich)
Thursday Night (Morley?)
1925
Anger (Hughes)
Behind a Watteau Picture (Rogers)
Cherry Blossom Time (Clements)
A Dear Little Wife
Evening Dress Indispensable
Ever Young (Gerstenberg)
Getting Off (Delano)
Her Father's Will (Lee)
The Faithful (Masefield)
The Ghost Story (Tarkington)
The House of Rimmon (Van Dyke)
Lima Beans (Kreymbourg)
The Maker of Dreams (Down)
Miss Peabody's Salad
Neighbors (Gale)
Photographer's Troubles
Sham (Tompkins)
Sweet and Twenty (Dell)
Told in a Chinese Garden (Wilcox)
Two Slatterns and a King (Millay)
You and I (Barry)
1924
The Faithful (Masefield)
Fancy Free (Houghton)
Fourteen (Gerstenberg)
Hearts
Helena's Husband (Moeller)
Illumanata in Drama Libre
Lies
Nevertheless (Walker)
On the Shelf
Only 38 (Thomas)
Cyortones (Gerstenberg)
Question of Morality (Wilde)
Rehearsals (Morley?)
Two Slaps in the Face
Unseen
The Wooden Leg
1923
Come Out of the Kitchen (Thomas)
A Cup of Tea
The Flower of Yedda
Lady Anne
Manikin and Minikin (Kreymbourg)
Mr. Pim Passes By (Milne)
The Silly Ass
The Trimplet (Walker)
1922
Adam and Eva
Milestones (Bennett-Knoblock)
Arms and the Man (Shaw)
1921
The Flower Shop (Hawkridge?)
A Welsh Honeymoon (Marks)
1920
Alice-Sit-by-the Fire (Barrie)
Under Cover (Megrue)
1919
The Man on the Box
Office 666 (MacHugh)
1917
The Glory of Their Years (Froome)
1914
The Mysterious Dr. Burton
1913
The Revolving Wedge