Manoa Valley Theatre

Honolulu's off-Broadway theater at 2833 E. Manoa Road. Showtimes: 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays. Season tickets: $125 for the six- or five-play options (the latter enables buyers to use vouchers in any combination); individual tickets: $25 for plays, $30 for musicals. 988-6131.

• "A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline," Sept. 4-22. A musical revue by Dean Regan, tracking the late country singer's tragically short career, from honky-tonk club days to radio to Grand Ole Opry. Signatures in the score include "Crazy," "Walkin' After Midnight," "I Fall to Pieces," "She's Got You" and "Sweet Dreams."

• "Honk!," Oct. 30-Nov. 17. A musical comedy by George Stiles, with book and lyrics by Anthony Drewe, who turn Hans Christian Andersen's inspirational fairy tale of the Ugly Duckling into a musical of unexpected emotion. The show focuses on the adventures of the duckling's mum, Ida, and a melange of ducks, geese, turkeys, bullfrogs and a cat.

• "Visiting Mr. Green," Jan. 8-26. A comedy-drama by Jeff Baron, about Ross Gardiner, a young corporate executive, who nearly collides with a tottering elderly man named Mr. Green while speeding through Manhattan. He draws a sentence of spending one night a week in community service helping Green, an 86-year-old Jewish widower, who wants none of it. A rich, warm look at friendship and hope in the strangest of places.

• "Beehive," March 5-23. A musical revue by Larry Gallagher, featuring five wailing women, a six-piece band, 50 outrageous costumes and wigs, and five cans of hair spray a week to keep the beehives buzzing. Nearly 40 rock classics by girl groups and divas are featured, including "My Boyfriend's Back," "Where the Boys Are," "Downtown," "Proud Mary," "A Natural Woman" and "Respect."

• "Proof," May 14-June 1. A drama by David Auburn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play, this story focuses on a troubled young woman who has spent years caring for her brilliant but unstable father, a noted mathematician. After his death, she must deal with her own volatile emotions, the arrival of her estranged sister and the attention of a former student of her father. A romance evolves and a notebook surfaces, posing the most difficult question of all: how much of her father's madness — or genius — will she inherit?

• "The Laramie Project," July 16-Aug. 3. A docu-drama by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project, this production examines the real-life story of Matthew Shepard, a Laramie, Wyo., student who was tied to a fence and beaten to death because he was gay. The saga is told, with compelling emotion, through a series of interviews from various perspectives. Ultimately, "America's home town," as Laramie is called, is hurled into the national spotlight because of the hate crime, offering a riveting portrait of a community at its worst and best.