After 6 P.M., Parking for the Naylor's 7:30 Curtain Is Free. The 3 P.M. Matinee Isn't.

If you see A Streetcar Named Desire at 7:30 on a Saturday night at the Naylor Theatre and pull into the garage after 6, parking costs nothing. If you see the same play at 3 p.m. on a Sunday, you will probably pay at the kiosk on the way out, even with a Hawaiʻi license. Ticket prices are the same for both. What changes the bill is the 6 p.m. line in the Wailuku Garage's posted rates, plus the length of a Tennessee Williams play.

Streetcar is part of MAPA's 2026–27 season at the Naylor. Maui Academy of Performing Arts turned the old Dollar General space at 2027 Main Street into a 12,000-square-foot, $15 million theater. It opened with nine performances of Cabaret from Nov. 14 to 30, 2025, and was formally named on Jan. 7, 2026, according to Maui Now. The theater is named in honor of the Naylor family. MAPA calls it a black box, and that matters for planning: Maui Now reported it can be set up with 84 seats in the round, while Frozen played to 175 seats per show. With a house that small, tickets go quickly. They also make the parking math worth doing before you pick a date.

Nine performances, two parking situations

Streetcar runs Nov. 20 through Dec. 6. Tickets range from $17.50 to $45 on MAPA's ticketing page. The show runs about 2 hours and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission. MAPA recommends it for ages 13 and up and posts a content advisory on the production page.

Six of the nine performances start after the fee window closes, so if you park after 6, you pay nothing. The three Sunday matinees run straight through it. That split is the reason for the table.

Where the 6 p.m. line comes from

The Wailuku Garage at 30 N. Church Street opened as part of the Civic Complex. Under Park Maui, the county's parking program, it has gone ticketless. These are the rules as currently posted on the Park Maui Wailuku page and rates page:

• The first floor is open to the public. The upper floors are for resident and employee permit parking.
• Fees apply daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Hawaiʻi residents get the first two hours free once a day by scanning a Hawaiʻi driver's license at the kiosk or in the Park Maui app, then pay $1 an hour.
• Visitors pay $1 an hour, up to $10 a day.
• The garage is open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. Only Neighborhood Parking Permit holders can stay after hours.
• The main entrance is on Church Street.

Street parking around the theater is free, but the posted limit is two hours per day. That is shorter than the play. The town's permit and paid parking zones come from Bill 79, which the Maui County Council passed in September 2025. Park Maui links its zone maps from the Wailuku page.

Apply those rules to a 7:30 curtain. If you pull in at 6:45, the fee window has already closed. The play lets out around 10:15, which leaves 45 minutes before the garage closes at 11. If you come early for dinner at 5, the 5-to-6 hour is billable. A resident's two free hours cover it, and a visitor pays $1 for that hour.

The Sunday matinee math

Matinees are where the numbers turn against you, because the run time is longer than the free window. Here is a typical Sunday:

1. Arrive at 2:30 p.m. to find a stall and get into the house before the 3 p.m. curtain. Scan your Hawaiʻi license. The free window runs until 4:30.
2. The play runs until about 5:45 with intermission. Your free time ends during the second half.
3. You leave around 5:50, past the free window but before the 6 p.m. cutoff.

A resident with that schedule pays $1 an hour for whatever time falls between 4:30 and 6, which comes to a dollar or two at the kiosk. A visiting relative in a separate car pays $1 an hour for the whole stay, under the $10 daily cap. These are small amounts. Still, two of the three Sunday dates fall on the weekends right before and after Thanksgiving, when people tend to bring guests, and those cars do not get the resident benefit.

Street parking and the ʻĪao Theater lot will not cover a matinee. The curb limit is two hours. The ʻĪao lot at 70 N. Market Street is free with two-hour limits, and its 39 public stalls are only available from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, excluding Sundays and county holidays. For a Sunday show, the garage is the realistic option.

Dec. 4 is the night the garage runs out of room

The Friday evening performance on Dec. 4 falls on First Friday, which Go Hawaiʻi lists from 6 to 9 p.m. around Market Street. On a normal Friday the free evening rate is the good news. On this one, the problem is finding a space at all. On its ticketing page, MAPA tells Streetcar patrons:

"we strongly recommend coming an hour or two early and grabbing dinner in Wailuku before the show because the Wailuku Garage is often full by 7 PM on First Friday."

That warning is on MAPA's ticketing page next to the Dec. 4 date. Coming an hour or two early means arriving between 5:30 and 6:30. Part of that may fall in the last stretch of paid hours, but a resident's two free hours cover it.

The harder part is dinner. 808 on Main at 2051 Main Street, a short walk from the Naylor, posts lunch and dinner hours of 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. That gives you time to eat before a 7:30 curtain if you sit down by around 6. First Friday also brings its own food and crowds to Market Street, so the earlier you are parked, the less the 7 p.m. warning applies to you.

If Dec. 4 sounds like more than you want, Dec. 5 is the Saturday evening performance. It has the same after-6 free parking without the street festival.

The free show on Market Street, and the lot rule that changes after 6

Two blocks over, Maui OnStage has a free "November One Night Only" on its homepage for Nov. 2. Tickets are marked as available soon, and the program has not been announced. Its One Night Only FAQ says the series is free and that the house usually opens at 6 p.m., with doors closing at 6:30. A Monday with a 6 p.m. house opening puts you right at the edge of the garage fee window and right at the end of the ʻĪao lot's public hours. The FAQ points patrons to the garage entrance on Church Street and to street parking on Market and Vineyard. It also asks people not to park in the reserved stalls behind the ʻĪao Theater.

The Historic ʻĪao Theater has no December show on Maui OnStage's current calendar. That makes the Naylor's Streetcar run the main ticketed theater in downtown Wailuku for the rest of the year.

What is going up across from the garage entrance

When you walk out of the garage onto Church Street, the construction at Church and Vineyard is the Hālau of ʻŌiwi Art. It is a planned cultural center with classrooms and indoor and outdoor gathering space, according to Wailuku Live. The Oct. 9 construction update reported underground plumbing, column formwork, structural steel and concrete walls, with walls and beams going up for two retail spaces and work underway on a future courtyard. Construction began April 28, 2025. The scheduled completion date is April 19, 2027, which the project notes is subject to change.

One piece will change how people walk to and from the garage. The Oct. 2 update showed crews building formwork for a pedestrian bridge between the Hālau and the Wailuku Parking Garage. For this season's theatergoers, the route is still the street.

You can reserve your Streetcar seats and pick a performance on MAPA's ticketing page. Park Maui's posted rates are on the Wailuku page if you want to check the kiosk numbers before you go. If you have questions about life around Wailuku Town, from show nights on Main Street to what the Civic Complex will look like when the Hālau opens, reach out to Chaston Marcos. Let's Connect.