Tom Papa

Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Sarah Silverman

Friday, March 28, 2025 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Piff the Magic Dragon

Friday, March 21, 2025 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Christopher Titus

Friday, February 1, 2025 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Changes in Latitudes

Jimmy Buffett Tribute Show

Friday, January 31, 2025 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Atsuko Okatsuka

Saturday, January 18, 2024 at 7pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Drew Lynch

Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Don McLean

Friday, December 20, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

A Flock of Seagulls & Strangelove

Sunday, December 1, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Whose Live Anyway

Friday, November 29, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Aries Spears

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Kathy Griffin

Friday, October 18, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Who’s Bad

The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience

Friday, October 11, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Hyprov; Improv under Hypnosis

Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 7:30pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Bored Teachers

Sunday, October 6, 2024 at 7pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Animals

Maroon 5 Tribute

Friday, September 27, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Centre

Animals: The Maroon 5 Tribute is a Dallas, Texas-based tribute to Maroon 5, one of the most successful recording and touring acts of the past two decades. With a passion for recreating Maroon 5's electric live show and award-winning recordings, Animals offers an amazing homage that draws large, generation-spanning audiences to venues and events. The five-piece band, which consists of seasoned musicians with decades of experience, is led by frontman David Gates, who has the unmistakable high-tenor sound — and the onstage charisma — of Adam Levine (and he looks a bit like him, too!). For fans of Maroon 5, Animals is second only to the original and should be your first choice when searching for the magic of Adam and the crew.

Ronny Chieng

Friday, July 26, 2024 at 7pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Allman Bets Band

Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Kathy Griffin

Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Kathy Griffin is a two-time Emmy and Grammy award-winning comedian, a towering figure on television, on tour and in publishing. She is known globally with her universally recognized brand of pull-no-punches comedy. In 2019, Kathy completed her “Laugh Your Head Off” World Tour, which featured sold out performances across the globe including North America, Europe, Australia and Singapore. This worldwide exposure led to her first docu-comedy feature film, “Kathy Griffin: A Hell of a Story,” which debuted in over 700 theaters nationwide on July 31, 2019. The film has been featured in numerous film festivals, receiving critical acclaim. “A Hell of a Story” is now available for digital download on Apple, Amazon, or wherever movies are sold around the world. Kathy’s unrivaled style of humor and prolific comedy pedigree makes her one of television’s go-to hosts for premier live events. Kathy drew huge worldwide audiences to CNN’s New Year’s Eve special, which she co-produced and co-hosted with Anderson Cooper for 10 years. Kathy co-hosted The Billboard Music Awards LIVE three years in a row, the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards LIVE and AARP’s Movies for Grownups Gala. Griffin’s sure-fire hosting success led to her own LIVE late-night talk show, Kathy. Griffin won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her hit reality series, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, which aired for six years on Bravo. It was nominated every single year of its run. The show also won the GLAAD Media Award for Best Reality Program. Griffin’s influence can also be found in publishing. Her boisterous and revealing memoir, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List. Griffin’s much-anticipated second book, Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins: My A-Z Index, was also a New York Times Best Seller. Griffin has been prominently featured on the covers of The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and The Advocate, as well as in-depth profiles in Los Angeles Times, New Your Times, New York Magazine and Forbes. In addition to performing, writing and producing, Ms. Griffin is a renowned speaker and has taken her empowering messages of equality through activism and humor all over the country. Ms. Griffin’s passionate advocacy for women, the LGBT community, and other disenfranchised groups have been displayed through numerous candid and intimate conversations with award-winning journalists and moderators from the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, the Hudson Union Society, 92Y, Oxford Union, as well as tech giants Google, AOL, Yahoo! and Buzzfeed. From penning New York Times best-selling books to filling the country’s biggest concert halls on her comedy tours, Griffin has cemented herself as one of the most powerful figures in comedy and a warrior for the First Amendment. Unfiltered, unafraid, and utterly hilarious – she is a must-see for any stand-up fan.

Wanda Sykes

Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 7:30pm at Hawaii Theatre

WANDA SYKES is an Emmy winning, fourteen-time nominated stand-up comic, writer, actress and producer. She can currently be seen in season four of the Netflix comedy The Upshaws which she co- show runs and stars in.  In 2020, she was nominated for an Emmy for her role as ‘Moms Mabley’ in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and for her voice work as ‘Gladys Murphy’ in Crank Yankers, a role she originated in 2004. Wanda’s guest-starring role on ABC’s Black-ish also brought her two back-to-back Emmy nominations for “Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series” in 2017 and 2018. Her fifth standup special, Wanda Sykes: Not Normal, streaming on Netflix and was nominated for two 2019

“This event will be a phone-free experience. Use of phones, smart watches, and accessories will not be permitted in the performance space. Upon arrival at the venue, all phones, smart watches, and accessories will be secured in individual Yondr pouches that will be opened at the end of the event. Guests maintain possession of their devices at all times, and can access them throughout the event only in designated Phone Use Areas within the venue. All devices will be re-secured in Yondr pouches before returning to the performance space. Anyone seen using a device (phone, smart watch or accessories) during the performance will be escorted out of the venue.”  

Dark Star Orchestra

Thursday, April 4, & Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Performing to critical acclaim for over 20 years and over 3000 shows, Dark Star Orchestra continues the Grateful Dead live concert experience. Their shows are built off the Dead's extensive catalog and the talent of these seven fine musicians. On any given night, the band will perform a show based on a set list from the Grateful Dead's 30 years of extensive touring or use their catalog to program a unique set list for the show. This allows fans both young and old to share in the experience. By recreating set lists from the past, and by developing their own sets of Dead songs, Dark Star Orchestra offers a continually evolving artistic outlet within this musical canon. Honoring both the band and the fans, Dark Star Orchestra's members seek out the unique style and sound of each era while simultaneously offering their own informed improvisations. Dark Star Orchestra offers much more than the sound of the Grateful Dead, they truly encapsulate the energy and the experience. It's about a sense of familiarity. It's about a feeling that grabs listeners and takes over. It's about that contagious energy...in short, it's about the complete experience and consistent quality show that the fan receives when attending a Dark Star Orchestra show. Dark Star Orchestra has performed throughout the entire United States, including a sold out debut at Colorado’s Red Rocks Park & Amphitheater, plus shows in Europe and the Caribbean with the band touching down in seven different countries. DSO continues to grow its fan base by playing at larger venues for two and even three-night stands, as well as performing at major music festivals including Bonnaroo, Milwaukee's SummerFest, The Peach Music Festival, Jam Cruise, Wanee Festival, SweetWater 420 Festival, Mountain Jam, and many more. In addition to appearing at some of the nation's top festival, Dark Star Orchestra hosts its own annual music festival and campaign gathering, titled the "Dark Star Jubilee", currently in its eighth year where DSO headline all three nights and are joined by a mix of established and up and coming national touring acts. Beyond the shores of the United States, DSO has taken its internationally-acclaimed Grateful Dead tribute to the beaches of Jamaica in the dead of winter for the past six years, with their event appropriately titled 'Jam in the Sand'. Featuring an ocean-side stage, DSO sets up camp to perform shows for four nights along the tropical sands of an all-inclusive resort, selling out the event each year for hundreds of lucky attendees. Fans and critics haven't been the only people caught up in the spirit of a Dark Star show. The band has featured guest performances from six original Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Vince Welnick, Tom Constanten and even toured with longtime Dead soundman, Dan Healy. Other notable guests have included Mike Gordon and Jon Fishman of Phish, Keller Williams, Warren Haynes, Steve Kimock, Peter Rowan, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and many more. "For us it's a chance to recreate some of the magic that was created for us over the years," keyboardist and vocalist Rob Barraco explains. "We offer a sort of a historical perspective at what it might have been like to go to a show in 1985, 1978 or whenever. Even for Deadheads who can say they've been to a hundred shows in the 90s, we offer something they never got to see live." Proudly Presented by: Join us on a journey through the 2024 season of entertainment, as Mastercard, First Hawaiian Bank, and Hawaii Theatre join forces in an extraordinary partnership. Together, they are proud to present a series of sensational shows designed to craft unforgettable moments for cardholders and the entire community. For Mastercard and First Hawaiian Bank, the alliance with Hawaii Theatre is more than a collaboration. It stands as a commitment to the preservation of this iconic institution, which serves as a cornerstone in the Chinatown Arts and Culture District. This dedication ensures a lasting legacy that will resonate for generations to come. The partnership continues in grand style with an unforgettable concert featuring the legendary Dark Star Orchestra. Renowned for their true to life continuation of the Grateful Dead. Drawing inspiration from a the classic sounds of the bay area counter-culture legends, they cultivated a unique and enduring sound.

Leslie Jones

Friday, February 23, 2024 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

The Clairvoyants

Saturday, December 30, 2023 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Amélie van Tass and Thommy Ten are “The Clairvoyants.” They were both born and raised in Austria and now reside in Austria and Las Vegas.
 
When they met in October 2011, they began to develop their "second sight" act, and two months later brought it on stage for the first time. Within a year they had developed a full-length show. Shortly thereafter, they started touring Europe.
 
In 2014, they received their first long term contract in America. After a six-month run in the show "The Illusionarium," they were offered a featured spot in the largest touring magic show in the world, “The Illusionists”.

The Clairvoyants decided to take part in the biggest talent show in the world, “America’s Got Talent,” and competed in Season 11. After four months, eight different performances and over 100,000 contestants, America voted The Clairvoyants second place. They also appeared twice on NBC's new show "America's Got Talent: The Champions.”
  
Over the years The Clairvoyants have collected many awards worldwide. In 2015 Van Tass and Ten were enthusiastically chosen as the “World Champions of Mentalism,” a prize that hasn't been awarded in 30 years. In April 2017 the Academy of Magical Arts and The Magic Castle Hollywood awarded Thommy Ten & Amélie van Tass "Stage Magicians of the Year" for their extraordinary art. In 2020 they received the Award “Mandrakes d’Or“ in Paris, France.

The pair filmed a TV special at the Vienna Opera House in 2021 and also performed 500 shows as part of the cast for “America’s Got Talent Las Vegas LIVE at the Luxor Hotel & Casino,” from 2021-2022. In 2022, The Clairvoyants performed on season 8 the CW’s Masters of Illusion. Most recently, the mentalism duo appeared on Britain’s Got Talent in December 2022.

Throughout their 10+ years performing together, Thommy and Amelie’s connection has grown even stronger, bringing their clairvoyance to another extraordinary level. They pair got engaged in 2019 and then married at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas in 2022.

Thommy and Amelie currently live in Las Vegas and plan to tour their full-length show in the US and Europe in 2023.

Margaret Cho

Thursday, November 30, 2023 at 7:30pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

As a comedian, actor, musician, advocate, entrepreneur and five-time Grammy and Emmy nominee, Margaret Cho’s strong voice has been lighting the path for other women, members of underrepresented groups, and other performers to follow. As a comedian, Margaret has been named one of Rolling Stone magazine’s 50 Best Stand-Up Comics of All Time, one of Vogue magazine’s Top 9 Female Comedians of all time, and touted as one of the 50 People Who Changed American Comedy by CNN.

Tracy Morgan

Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 7pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Tracy Morgan is one of the most well-respected comedians in his field. Known for starring on seven seasons of NBC’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning 30 Rock, Morgan appeared opposite Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin as “Tracy Jordan,” the unpredictable star of “Liz Lemon’s” (Fey) hit variety show, TGS with Tracy Jordan. Morgan received an Emmy Nomination in the Supporting Actor category for his work on the show and was nominated multiple years for the Supporting Actor NAACP Image Award. The cast of the show also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for best Ensemble in a Comedy Series before the beloved series came to an end in January 2013. He can currently be seen on the No Disrespect stand up tour nationwide. Most recently, Morgan can be seen in four seasons of TBS’ The Last OG, which he also executive produces and Amazon’s Coming 2 America alongside Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, which was released in March 2021. He also appeared in Warner Brothers Scoob!, Paramount’s What Men Want, opposite Taraji P. Henson, and voiced the role of “Fox” in Netflix’s 2019 series Green Eggs & Ham. Morgan’s stand up special Staying Alive was released globally on Netflix in May 2017. Prior, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 2016 class. Morgan was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series in 2016 for hosting an episode of the legendary Saturday Night Live. In 2014, Morgan released a standup special for Comedy Central titled Tracy Morgan: Bona Fide, which brought the network one of its largest audiences for a standup special that year. Previously, his first stand up special, Black & Blue, was released on HBO in 2010. Another milestone for Morgan was reached in 2009 with the release of his first book, a compilation of studied anecdotes and some of the more serious moments that shaped him and his career, I Am the New Black. Morgan has also been part of some of the most successful animated films in recent years. In 2009, he made his animation debut lending his voice for Jerry Bruckheimer’s G-Force, a combination live-action/CG film. The film opened No. 1 in US box office sales and was celebrated by audiences worldwide. In 2013, he starred as the bulldog, “Luiz,” in the film Rio and again in April 2014 when he reprised his role in Rio 2. Morgan’s voice can also be heard in the Oscar-nominated film, Boxtrolls, as one of the film’s antagonists, “Mr. Gristle.” Morgan has headlined across the country and abroad on various tours and festivals for his stand-up comedy. He was first introduced to television audiences in his role as “Hustle Man” on the hit comedy series Martin. He went on to join Saturday Night Live in 1996 where he appeared for seven seasons and created such memorable characters as “Astronaut Jones” and “Brian Fellows.” After leaving SNL, Morgan went on to star in his own comedy series, The Tracy Morgan Show, and he voiced “Spoonie Luv” on Comedy Central’s Crank Yankers. Additional film credits include Cop Out, the remake of the British film Death at a Funeral, First Sunday opposite Ice Cube and Katt Williams, The Longest Yard opposite Adam Sandler, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Head of State, Son of No One, Why Stop Now and Fist Fight. Morgan currently resides in New Jersey.

The Moth

Friday, October 27, 2023 at 7:30pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

An evening of storytelling from the producers of the popular Moth Podcast and Radio Hour. The Moth is true stories, told live and without notes. Since its founding, The Moth has presented more than fifteen thousand stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The group celebrates the ability of stories to honor both the diversity and commonality of human experience, and to satisfy a vital human need for connection. It seeks to present recognized storytellers among established and emerging writers, performers and artists and to encourage storytelling among communities whose stories often go unheard. The Moth began on a back porch in small-town Georgia, where our founder—poet and best-selling novelist George Dawes Green— would spend sultry summer evenings swapping spellbinding tales with a small circle of friends. There was a hole in the screen, which let in moths that were attracted to the light, and the group started calling themselves "The Moths." When he moved to New York City, George wanted to recreate the feeling of those nights in his adopted city. The first New York Moth event was heldin George's living room. But word spread fast, and the events soon moved to cafes and clubs throughout the city—and soon to popular venues throughout the country and beyond.

Alan Cumming

Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Alan Cumming is beyond eclectic. His most recent projects include creating a dance theatre piece about the Scottish bard Robert Burns, lip-synching the protagonist in a documentary, directing a podcast series about a sperm bank heist, playing a gangster opposite Liam Neason in a Neil Jordan film, curating a cabaret festival in Australia and recording a duet with a Gaelic rapper. Perhaps not surprisingly, Time Magazine called him one of the three most fun people in show business (the others were Cher and Stanley Tucci!)

Thirty years ago his Hamlet stormed the West End and he was hailed as ‘an actor knocking at the door of greatness’. A quarter of a century ago he was a sensation as Cabaret’s Master of Ceremonies in a production that forever changed the Broadway landscape . A decade ago his visceral, virtually one man Macbeth was a stunning, transatlantic coup de theatre.

His screen work ranges from art house to blockbuster, cult to mainstream, but his performances are always indelible and some immortal: Mr Floop in Spy Kids, Eli in The Good Wife, Nightcrawler in X2: X Men United, Sebastian in The High Life, ‘O’ in Sex and the City, Boris in Goldeneye, King James in Doctor Who, Sandy Frink in Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Mayor Menlove in Schmigadoon and himself on Broad City.

He is the author of six books including a New York Times #1 bestselling memoir, performs in concert regularly in halls around the world and co-owns his own, eponymous cabaret bar Club Cumming, a home for ‘all ages, all genders, all colours, all sexualities, where kindness is all and anything could happen!’

The list of his collaborators over the years includes Liza Minnelli, Jeremy O. Harris, Jackie Chan, the Smurfs, David Bowie, The Simpsons, Robert Wilson, Stanley Kubrick, Jay Z, Bianca Del Rio, the Spice Girls, George Lucas, Terence Blanchard, KT Tunstall and not forgetting Dora the Explorer, Arthur and Elmo.

He had a photo exhibition named Alan Cumming Snaps! and an award-winning fragrance named Cumming. He has played Dionysus, the Devil, God, the Pope and was shot by Herb Ritts for Vanity Fair as Pan. He recently played a 70 year old woman. He has been a Lee Jeans model and on a stamp. He is a Tony and Olivier award winning theatre actor. He hosted the Tonys and was nominated for an Emmy for doing so. In fact he has been nominated for five Emmys, won a New York Emmy, a Scottish BAFTA and a British Comedy Award. He is an Independent Spirit award-winning producer and National Board of Review winning director. He is a Grammy and multiple Golden Globe nominee. His portrait was hung in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. He has four honourary doctorates and over forty awards for being a humanitarian, but as he says, ‘awards mean nothing’!

In a city of multihyphenates, none can compete with the indefatigable Alan Cumming Time Out New York

Alan Cumming comes across as a man of real intellectual and moral substance who often – for his own good reasons – presents himself as a bit of a showbiz airhead The Scotsman

A bawdy counter-cultutal sprite The New York Times

Cumming has held the title of queer icon since the late 90s, when he was described by the New York Observer as a “frolicky pansexual sex symbol for the new millennium”. The Guardian

Sam Tsui

Friday, October 20, 2023 at 8pm at Hawaii Theatre Center

Independent artist, singer, songwriter and content creator Sam Tsui has been hailed as an internet singing sensation, and was among the first musicians to establish a popular music channel on YouTube. Tsui has created and grown a combined social following of over 5 million loyal fans, who call themselves the #Samily. To date, his videos, including covers, medleys, and mashups, and originals have amassed hundreds of millions of views on YouTube alone, with nearly 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify. At the end of 2019 he completed a 10-city tour of Southeast Asia and China, and spent 2020 producing and releasing a full studio album month by month called “Yearbook”. Sam has starred in and created music for campaigns with brands including Coca Cola, McDonalds, Mars, IKEA, and more. Passionate about increasing the visibility of under-represented groups in media (especially pop music), Sam is proud to be an artist who can represent both the Asian-American and LGBTQ communities, and collaborates frequently with his husband Casey Breves.