Honolulu Hawaii Entertainment & Events

Night Life

• La Mariana Sailing Club
  50 Sand Island Access Road • Honolulu, HI 96819
  808-848-2800
  Step back into the past at this unique club that is one of the last of the old time Waikiki style Polynesian piano bars and restaurants. Colorful balloon fish lanterns and other Tiki style decorations fill the bar and a menu that includes everything from seafood to steak is served until 8:00 p.m.

Concerts & Performances

• Ballet Hawaii
  3142 Waialae Avenue • Honolulu, HI 96839
  808-988-7578
  Established in 1975, this ballet company promotes and develops ballet in Hawaii through many ballet productions and educational programs. They also present an annual production of the Nutcracker. more...

Plays & Productions

• Creation - A Polynesian Odyssey
  120 Kaiulani Avenue • Honolulu, HI 96815
  Located at Sheraton Princess Kaiulani
  808-931-4660
  Learn about the early days of Hawaii and the South Pacific during this spectacular dinner and cocktail show that features live music, wonderful dancing, and authentic costumes. Shows are on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 6:00 p.m.

• Neal Blaisdell Center Concert Hall
  777 Ward Street • Honolulu, HI 96814
  808-591-2211
  Hawaii’s premier performing arts theater, this concert hall is the home of the Honolulu Symphony and the Hawaii Opera Theatre and features 2,158 luxurious theater seats. Every year at least one of mainland America's finer ballet troupes makes the trip to this concert hall for a series of dance performances. more...

• Army Community Theatre
  Located at Richardson Theater in Fort Shafter
  808-438-4480
  Originally used for showing movies and live productions, as well as conducting official training, this 800 seat theater was built in 1948 now features theater performances and revivals of musical theater classics. more...

• Diamond Head Theater
  520 Makapuu Avenue • Honolulu, HI 96816
  808-734-0274
  Providing the best in live community theatre since 1915, this theater company performs a repertoire that includes a little of everything such as dramas, classics, musicals, and experimental productions. more...

• Hawaii Theatre Center
  1130 Bethel Street • Honolulu, HI 96813
  808-528-0506
  Known as the "Pride of the Pacific," this beautifully restored theater first opened its doors in 1922 and is listed on both the State and National Registers of Historic Places. The theater is now a multipurpose, state-of-the-art, 1,400 seat facility that hosts a wide range of events such as theatrical productions, musicals, and concerts. more...

• Honolulu Theater For Youth
  2846 Ualena Street • Honolulu, HI 96819
  808-839-9885
  The only nonprofit professional theatre in Hawaii, this theater group produces delightful theater productions and drama education programs for children and their families from September to May. more...

• John F. Kennedy Theater
  1770 East-West Road • Honolulu, HI 96822
  Located at University of Hawaii's Manoa Campus
  808-956-7655
  A wide range of eclectic and dramatic performances ranging from musical theater productions to Chinese operas are performed at this theater.

• Kumu Kahua Theater
  46 Merchant Street • Honolulu, HI 96813
  808-536-4441
  The only theater in Honolulu that presents shows and plays written about life in Hawaii by Hawaii's most talented playwrights and performed by the most talented actors and directors in Hawaii.  more...

• Moana Valley Theater
  2833 East Manoa Road • Honolulu, HI 96822
  808-988-6131
  An enthusiastic community theater group that performs an array of wonderful nonprofessional productions in an intimate theater from September to July.

• Cirque Wings
  2805 Monsarrat Avenue • Honolulu, HI 96815
  808-824-4367
  Have you ever dreamed you could fly? Now is your chance to let your imagination run wild with Cirque Wings, a new, original art form, on December 17th, 18th and 19th at 7 p.m. at the Waikiki Shell Amphitheater. Cirque Wings tells the story of mankind's passion to fly. It is unique in quality, dazzling in magnitude and classic in beauty. Cirque Wings is the jewel of performing arts. Appropriate for all ages, viewers will enjoy incredible high flying aerial acrobats, various styles of dancing; plenty of humor and a fun twist on the traditional hula. The show will be featuring local artists from all over Oahu. Viewers will not only enjoy the masterful performance, but will witness the unveiling of a spectacular new circus theatrical innovation. more...

Festivals & Fairs

• Hale Koa Luau
  2055 Kalia Road • Honolulu, HI 96815
  808-655-9427
  Enjoy a splendid ancient Hawaiian tradition every Monday and Thursday night during this luau that includes an aloha lei welcome, a cocktail hour, lei making and coconut frond weaving, an authentic imu ceremony, and delicious food served on tapa china. more...

• Paradise Cove Luau
  92-1480 Aliinui Drive • Honolulu, HI 96707
  Located at the Ko Olina Resort
  Get the full luau experience at this venue where you will receive a Mai Tai greeting, make arts and crafts of Polynesia, enjoy games of skill, and experience the Hukilau Ceremony while includes a shower of flowers, a procession of the royal court, an Imu Show, and a fabulous luau dinner. more...

• Germaine's Luau
  Located at the end of Olai Street
  808-949-6626
  An authentic backyard style Hawaiian luau which is located on a beautiful, secluded, and private beach and includes an Imu ceremony, a Royal Court Procession of Polynesia, a spectacular Polynesian revue that takes you on a music tour of Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Samoa, a thrilling fire knife dance, and an all-you-can-eat Hawaiian and American buffet. more...

• Honolulu Festival
  The Honolulu Festival is Hawaii's premier cultural event, promoting understanding, economic cooperation and ethnic harmony between the people of Hawaii and the Pacific Rim region. Through educational programs and activities, the Festival continues to successfully share the rich and vibrant blend of Asia, Pacific and Hawaiian cultures with the rest of the world. The three day extravaganza occurs every year in March on a weekend from Friday through Sunday. Dance performances and traditional art demonstrations are displayed. The Festival culminates with a spectacular parade down Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki, Hawaii.