” Extreme alert: Ballistic Missile Threat for Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.” It was the message on every mobile phone, on every TV screen at 8.07 am on Saturday, January 13 this year. Now Hawaii has a new travel and tourism attraction not yet known to many of Hawaii’s visitors. Hurry this attraction may disappear at the end of July.

The tourism attraction, equally interesting to locals is “38 Minutes” and it’s shown at the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Honolulu. Kumu Kaha Theatre is located in downtown Honolulu at: 46 Merchant St.

eTN broke the news that morning on January 13 before any other news channel at 8.11 am, 4 minutes after the alert. Readers from around the world clearly still remember this dramatic coverage;

Shortly after January 13 Kumu Kahua Theatre broadcasted a call for submissions from playwrights inspired by that Saturday morning event.

Presented by an ensemble of actors, 38 minit ' first act is a culmination of select scenes and monologues that were submitted. The second act is improvised, shaped by audience feedback on their experiences of those 38 minutes, directed and facilitated by the skilled and experienced duo, Monica and Squire Coldwell.

This movie entitles “38 Minutes” can be watched at the Kumu Kahua Theatre in Downtown Honolulu until July 29, 2018. This must see documentary is starting weekdays at 8.00 pm and Sundays at 2.00pm.

Kumu Kahua Theatre was founded in 1971 by a group of graduate students at the University of Hawai‘i, with the original goal of producing locally-written experimental works. The Hawaiian language words kumu ak kahua translate to “original stage.” At the time, there was no local theatre devoted to telling stories of these islands and its various cultures. In 1982, Kumu Kahua was granted not-for-profit status and in 1994, the Hawaii State Legislature awarded the group its current 100-seat playhouse, a former Post Office, in downtown Honolulu at 46 Merchant Street. 46 years after its original founding, Kumu Kahua is still the only theatre we know of solely to creating, supporting, and showcasing original works of theatre specifically related to our geographical region and the cultures represented here.

In this time, Kumu Kahua has helped develop more than 230 original works that has influenced hundreds of actors, playwrights, directors, technicians, and community members.

Plays about life in Hawai‘i: The theater educates and trains new generations of aspiring theater professionals through its “living laboratory” of productions and public play readings, and by holding classes and workshops in acting, improvisation and playwriting. Top Hawai‘i actors such as Jason Scott Lee, alongside a core of Kumu stage veterans such as Dann Seki and Wil Kahele, have performed at Kumu Kahua.

Plays by Hawai‘i’s playwrights: Since the 1970s, the theater has co-sponsored the University of Hawai‘i’s annual historic play competition started in the 1930s. And the theater has produced the first stagings of work by locally renowned island playwrights such as Lee Cataluna, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Darrell Lum, Edward Sakamoto and Lee A. Tonouchi.

Plays for Hawai‘i’s people: Kumu Kahua productions—such as James Grant Benton’s Shakespeare adaptation Twelf Night O Wateva! in 1974, Edward Sakamoto’s Aloha Las Vegas in 1992 and Lee Cataluna’s Folks You Meet in Longs in 2003—have become cultural touchstones for island residents.

To provide theatrical opportunities for the expression of local community lifestyles, whether contemporary or historical
To stage locally written plays set in Hawai‘i or dealing with some aspect of the Hawaiian experience of residents
To provide training and theatrical experiences for local playwrights, directors, performers and other theatrical artists
To develop an increasingly large audience sensitive to plays and theatre pieces dealing specifically and truthfully with local subject matter