Maui Arts & Entertainment

Grammy winner John Cruz and several other Hawaiʻi entertainers are scheduled to perform at a celebration of music on Maui at the 3rd annual Make Music Hawaiʻi on April 23. The “Mele Maui” event is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Maui Ocean Center.

Award-winning American playwright Qui Nguyen’s play “She Kills Monsters” is scheduled to open at the ʻĪao Theatre this Saturday, April 16.

For a list of upcoming events, concerts, shows and entertainment from April 14-20, find our comprehensive listing here. #MauiNow

Lahaina Cannery is hosting a free, family-friendly Hop ʻn Shop Easter celebration on Saturday, April 16, with face painting, balloon art, keiki crafts and coloring, Easter themed games and live music by Kaleo Phillips.

A film documentary, exploring native Hawaiians’ traditional relationships with animals as family guardians, will be shown at the 30th annual Celebration of the Arts at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua in mid-April.

Many of the more than 50 people who testified during a budget committee meeting on Friday voiced support for funding of Hālau of ʻŌiwi Art, a center dedicated to the study, practice, celebration and perpetuation of hula and various ‘ōiwi arts connected to hula.

Two Maui filmmakers have announced the Hawaiʻi Premiere of their documentary ”Big Sonia” on Hawaiʻi Public Television on April 30 at 8 p.m.

A falsetto singing contest and a “Celebration of Island Tastes” are part of the events occurring on April 16 at the newly renovated, open-air Aloha Garden Pavilion at The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua.

The Shops at Wailea celebrates the arrival of the Easter Bunny on Friday, April 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The center also hosts week-long Easter Hoppenings at The Shops featuring complimentary activities for all ages.

The COVID-19 pandemic might have slowed the tour of the band Iration but its members have continued to create songs that lift people’s spirits.

A benefit concert for Ukraine is planned for April 24, Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the 35-acre field of sunflowers in Maui’s Central Valley.

For a list of upcoming events, concerts, shows and entertainment, find our comprehensive listing here.

Maui Street Market hosts ʻOhana Game Night from 4:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 15 in the parking lot at 150 Hāna Highway in Kahului. 

Waterman, which highlights the life and legacy of Duke Kahanamou, opened exclusively in Hawai‘i theaters on Friday, April 1, and in two days, it climbed to the No. 1 documentary in America.

Maui’s Kalani Peʻa earned the 2022 GRAMMY for his junior album, “Kau Ka Peʻa,” which was considered in the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. 

Grammy Awards winner George Kahumoku remembers learning as a child to grow taro and other crops from his native Hawaiian grandparents.

Richard Marx returns to Maui for a solo acoustic concert, Saturday, June 25. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, March 31 to MACC members, and on April 7 to the general public.

For a list of upcoming events, concerts, shows and entertainment, find our comprehensive listing here.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center will present a touring Hawaiian contemporary art exhibit “O Kalani” at the Schaefer International Gallery Tuesday, April 5.

A film about the life and legacy of Hawaiʻi’s Duke Paoa Kahanamoku opens this weekend, with showtimes at the Queen Kaʻahumanu Center’s Consolidated Theatres.