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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.