A vintage piece and a supersuper-vintage piece are new again on Island stages this weekend.

'THE GIN GAME'

The 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning tale about two nursing-home residents who reveal themselves over games of gin rummy begins today at the Hawai'i Pacific University Theatre on the Kane'ohe campus.

Community-theater veterans Don Pomes and Joyce Maltby have played "The Gin Game" twice before (in 1982 and 1986) and take the spotlight once again. Mitchell Milan, is making his Island debut as a director; he starred in HPU's "The Miser" last year.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 4 p.m. Sundays, today through April 16 at the HPU Theatre. Tickets are $20 general, $14 military, students, HPU faculty and staff and those 62 and older, $3 HPU students; discounts on Thursdays. Reservations recommended: 375-1282.

'HAMLETISM'

William Shakespeare's drama about the Danish prince is retold and reimagined by director and University of Hawai'i-Manoa graduate student Chong Wang.

The Bard's text is used as a starting point for a theatrical experience that includes nontraditional acting and staging.

Showtimes are 11 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday and 11 p.m. March 24-25 at the Earle Ernst Lab Theatre, UH-Manoa; a post-show rap session with the director and cast happens March 24. Tickets are $8 general, $7 seniors, military, UH faculty/staff and non-UH students, $3 UH students. 956-7655.