Do It: Diplo, ‘Hound,’ Collins, TCM Classic Movie Series

SATURDAY

>> DJ/producer Diplo, a Grammy winner, to play pair of shows

Grammy Award-winning music producer Diplo drops into The Republik this week with his international, grass-roots dance music.

Diplo is known for traveling the world recording everything from street sounds to club beats, then remixing them into exhilirating dance music and distributing them over his label, Mad Decent.

Born Thomas Wesley Pentz in Mississippi and raised in Florida, Diplo got his start in music DJing at clubs in Philadelphia, playing “mash-up” music — songs that mixed the vocals from one song with the instrumentals from another. As part of the duo Hollertronix, he co-created the mixtape “Never Scared,” which put him on the map. “They breathe life into songs that were left for dead, and they definitely change your perspective on the music they include here,” said a review in prefixmag.com.

Sinc then Diplo has gone on to produce for artists like Beyonce, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Ariane Grande. As part of the duo Jack U with Skrillex, he won the 2016 Grammy for best dance/electronic recording for “Where Are U Now” (featuring Justin Bieber), from the album “Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack U,” which took the Grammy for best dance/electronic album.

Diplo was originally scheduled to perform at the Pangea Festival, which is being rescheduled. His original schedule called for a 9 p.m. performance Saturday, but since it sold out, it has been rescheduled to 10 p.m. and a 6 p.m. show was added.

SATURDAY-JAN. 28

>> All female ‘Hound’ needles the original “Watson, the needle!”

That line, spoken by Basil Rathbone in the 1939 film version of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” refers to Sherlock Holmes’ cocaine addiction. But in a different way, it also applys to playwright Ken Ludwig, who figuratively gives the needle to the famous story in his comedy “Baskervilles: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” which opens at Manoa Valley Theatre this week.

Ludwig’s re-envisioning of the Arthur Conan Doyle murder mystery employs a cast of five: Two actors play Watson and Holmes, but three others portray more than 40 other characters. A madcap pace, quick costume changes and hilarious characters add to the theatricality of the work.

“It’s not just about Holmes and Watson and the mystery … it becomes about the theater,” Ludwig said in a video about the writing of the work. “When I realized it was becoming about theater — the making of theater — just as much as it was about Holmes and Watson, I was hooked.”

Manoa Valley Theatre’s production takes the craziness a step further by using an all-female cast. Brooke Channon Dee stars as Sherlock Holmes, Malia Wessel is Dr. Watson and Courtney Booth, Shannon Winpenny and Theresa Olival portray characters like a sassy hotel clerk, a politically incorrect Scotland Yard detective and the foppish, cursed Henry Baskerville.

SUNDAY

>> Judy Collins returns to Hawaii to perform at the Mamiya Theatre

Judy Collins, the famously clear-voiced, clear-eyed vocalist, returns to tour the islands this week.

Collins has been a fixture on the pop music scene for nearly 50 years, mostly as an interpreter of melancholy tunes and protest songs by the great songwriters of the day, from Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie to Lennon and McCarthy to Stephen Sondheim.

Her recording of Joni Mitchell’s wistful “Both Sides Now” won the Grammy for Best Folk Performance and to this day remains her signature work. She’s also known for Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” which won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 1976 and reached the Billboard charts in both 1975 and 1977. She performed both tunes during a recent gig at Joe’s Pub in New York City, earning New York Times critic Jesse Green’s praise for maintaining “almost every contour of her original phrasing” in “Clowns” and keeping “much of the beautiful tone and control” over “Both Sides Now.”

Collins’ piercing blue eyes made for some of the most arresting album covers of the day, with her gaze epitomizing the phrase “the eyes are the windows to the soul.” They inspired fellow songwriter and onetime partner Stephen Stills to compose “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes.” Collins and Stills recently announced that they will tour together later this year.

The prolific Collins has released at least five studio albums in every decade since the 1960s, including two albums this year alone, one with Stills and the other dedicated to Sondheim. She also remains true to the idealism of the 1960s, serving as a UNICEF representative and speaking out about issues like climate change.

Collins also performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Maui Arts & Culture Center and at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Honoka‘a People’s Theater on Hawaii island. $45-$65; get ticket info at bluesbearhawaii.com.

SUNDAY & TUESDAY

>> Series brings classic films back for theater experience

With the advent of cable TV, DVDs and streaming video, most people see classic titles at home. But Fathom Events, a company that brings special-event broadcasting to movie theaters, revives the “go to the movies” experience with its TCM Classic Movie Series. Kicking off its 2018 season this weekend, it will feature one classic movie each month except for August, which will feature two.

Opening the series this week is one of Hollywood’s greatest action-adventure films, “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” Director John Huston cast Humphrey Bogart, his father Walter Huston and Tim Holt as prospectors seeking gold in the Mexican desert — the film was one of the first to be shot on location — who deal with jealousy and greed among themselves as well as threats from bandits. (One of its most famous scenes has Bogart facing off against a group of bandits posing as Mexican federales, who refuse to show him their “stinking badges.”) It screens Sunday and Tuesday at 2 and 7 p.m.

Other films in the series: “The Philadelphia Story,” Feb. 18 and 21; “Vertigo,” March 18 and 21; “Grease,” April 8 and 11; “Sunset Boulevard,” May 13 and 16; “The Producers,” June 3 and 6; “Big,” July 15 and 18; “The Big Lebowski,” Aug. 5 and 8; “South Pacific,” Aug. 26 and 29; “Rebel Without a Cause,” Sept. 23 and 26; “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” Oct. 14 and 17; “Die Hard,” Nov. 11 and 14; and “White Christmas,” Dec. 9 and 12.

Screenings include commentary by TCM hosts.