Maui Arts & Entertainment

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George Benson will perform in the Maui Arts & Cultural’s Castle Theater on Tuesday, March 3, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College is auditioning new students for the Institute of Hawaiian Music for the upcoming Fall 2015 semester.

Seabury Hall Performing Arts will present Neil Simon’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning “Lost in Yonkers” Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Feb. 27 through March 8. The play is directed by Sally Sefton.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will offer another weekend of eclectic entertainment. From folk-pop music, to urban dance, to New Age and World Music, The MACC offers something for a wide range of tastes: Brett Dennen, “Pavement” and Peter Kater & R. Carlos Nakai.

“Meet the Artists” at Lahaina Arts Society from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. as they demonstrate their skills at the Banyan Tree Gallery in the Old Lahaina Courthouse.

Avast! The Maui Academy of Performing Arts will be hosting its 4th annual spring fundraising gala on Friday, Mar. 6, 2015, at The King Kamehameha Golf Club in Waikapū. This year’s theme, “Adventure on the High Seas,” gives guests a chance to express their inner pirate or mermaid in swashbuckler form.

Country music superstar Chris Young will be performing live at the Castle Theater on March 6 at 7:30 p.m. This show is in addition to his on-stage performance with Brice Lee on Mar. 7 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.

Maui’s most talented hālau hula will provide free cultural entertainment in the air-conditioned Lahaina Cannery Mall at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and at 1 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in March.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center will present a premier New Zealand theater company performance entitled “The Brave” at Castle Theater on Thursday, Mar. 5, at 7:30 p.m.

The Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center is holding its annual Art Affair fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 28, from 5 to 10 p.m. at the Kaluanui Estate in Makawao. This year’s event is inspired by the lives and work of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

Casanova Italian Restaurant in Makawao and the award-winning Rotary Club of Upcountry Maui are holding a fundraiser for the club’s projects. On Sunday, March 1, 2015, diners who indicate they are there in support of Upcountry Rotary will have a substantial percentage of their bill go toward the club’s projects. Make reservations by calling (808) 572-0220 or at OpenTable.com

Maui OnStage will present Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun” on weekends from March 6 through 22 at the Historic ‘Īao Theater. The musical will showcase the talents of real-life wife Alexis Dascoulias as Annie Oakley and real-life husband Steven Dascoulias as Frank Butler in their first-ever Maui stage appearance.

Music Director James Durham and the Maui Pops Orchestra will perform with Keola Beamer and Kumu Hula Moanalani Beamer at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Castle Theater on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m.

Rising music stars Kamakoa Lindsey-Asing and Pi‘ilani Arias will perform at the Lāhainā Restoration Foundation’s free Hawaiian Music Series concert on Thursday, Feb. 26, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Baldwin Home Museum lawn (at the corner of Dickenson and Front Street) in Lāhainā.

Twenty-five local and Mainland artists will gather in Lāhainā for the Maui Plein Air Painting Invitational during the week of Feb. 14 to 22. The outdoor challenge featuring artists creating images of people, historic buildings, beaches and mountains is open to the public.

Na Wahine Kuilima o ka Leo Kamaehu, a group supporting women’s leadership roles in business under Starwood Hotels & Resorts, is inviting the public to support breast cancer awareness throughout the month of February at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa, the Westin Maui Resort & Spa and the Westin Kā‘anapali Ocean Resort Villas.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center will be presenting the provocative new dance work “Pavement” on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in the Castle Theater. The performance features the dance company Abraham.In.Motion, and was created by dancer-choreographer Kyle Abraham.

Lahaina Cannery Mall will bring in the Chinese New Year with firecrackers, dancing lions and martial arts masters on Saturday, Feb. 21, from 2 to 4 p.m.