Kumu Kahua Theatre is a community theater located in the city of Honolulu on the island of Oahu in the state of Hawaii.
Therefore, actors are often featured utilizing their natural local dialect or respective ethnic accent, and many plays have incorporated or are solely written in Hawaiian Creole English, an English dialect commonly known in the Hawaiian islands as pidgin.
Appropriately the Hawaiian language words kumu kahua translate to "original stage."
Kumu Kahua Theatre was founded in 1971 by graduate students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa [1], with the goal of producing locally-written experimental works.
Kumu Kahua's current artistic director is Harry Wong III.