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Hawai‘i Theatre: Shared Experiences

Hawaii Public Radio | By Noe Tanigawa

Published January 20, 2015 at 5:05 AM HST

Ruth Bolan, President of the Hawai'i Theatre Center since June 2014.

The venerable Hawai‘iTheatre has been through a lot since opening as the “Pride of the Pacific” in 1922. Vaudeville acts gave way to movies, then a closure in 1984. The theatre’s reopening in 1996 after a 32 million dollar renovation has always held great promise, and HPR’sNoeTanigawa found a new theatre president is reorganizing with an eye to the future.

Next up at the Hawai‘i Theatre, Kuana Torres Kahele on February 7, H?lau I Ka W?kiu?s annual concert February 8, and blues singer Eric Bibb, February 13.

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Noe Tanigawa

Noe Tanigawa covers art, culture, and ideas for Hawai'i Public Radio. Noe began working in news at WQXR, the New York Times' classical station in New York City, where she also hosted music programs from 1990-94. Prior to New York, Noe was a music host in jazz, rock, urban contemporary, and contemporary and classic Hawaiian music formats in Honolulu. Since arriving at HPR in 2002, Noe has received awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists Hawai'i Chapter, and an Edward R. Murrow Regional Award for coverage of the budget process at the Hawai'i State Legislature. Noe holds a Masters in Painting from UH Mānoa. She maintains an active painting practice, and has recently returned from a 2015 residency with the U.S. Art in Embassies program in Palau. Noe is from Wailupe Valley in East O'ahu.

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