Theater cuts prices for the unemployed

Maybe you need the arts even more when you've been laid off. If so, you're in luck because tickets at Kumu Kahua Theatre are only $5 on Thursdays with "proof of unemployment." Other Thursday discounts include senior ($11) and student ($5) tickets. Everybody else pays a discounted $13 on Thursdays to see plays, by Hawai'i playwrights, about life in Hawai'i. Playing now: "The Statehood Project." Coming next: "Voices From Okinawa."