John Park News

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the program for the free community concert for the At Home in Hough neighborhood residency on Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at East Professional Center (formerly East High School). 

Recommended for children age 3 and up, Sleeping Beauty: The Time Traveler and Her New Millennium Prince is an upbeat and fun musical fairy tale that is sure to entertain the littlest audience members, as well as the little kid inside all of the adults who bring the little ones to the theatre! With music by Deborah Wicks La Puma and lyrics by Andrea Dodd combined with Janet Stanford's storytelling, this family-friendly show is a great start to the Players Clubs trio of Children's Theatre productions taking place this summer.

Tome Cousin is an interdisciplinary artist who has molded an award winning international career that includes collaboration and performance on Broadway, television, film, dance, theater, music, photography, and literature. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Dance History and Choreography and a Masters of Fine Art in New Media Art and Performance. He is an Associate Professor of Dance at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.

EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing is pleased to announce the names of the contributing authors for the forthcoming edition of the prestigious Tesseract series. "Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods" will include works by: Robert J. Sawyer, Matthew Hughes, Alyxandra Harvey, Halli Lilburn, Derwin Mak, J.M. Frey, Steve Stanton, Megan Fennell, Jen Laface and Andrew Czarnietzki, S. L. Nickerson, John Park, Janet K. Nicolson, Suzanne M. McNabb, Allan Weiss, Savithri Machiraju, Carla Richards, Mary-Jean Harris, James Bambury, Mary Pletsch, David Jón Fuller, and Jennifer Rahn, Erling Friis-Baastad, David Fraser, John Bell, David Clink and Tony Pi -27 of the biggest names and brightest rising stars in Canadian science-fiction and fantasy. This latest volume of the Tesseracts series contains tales of creative and religious diversity - a trending topic in books and movies. The stories and poems draw from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism and the beliefs of Indigenous Canadians, (as well as actually creating faiths and religions of other worlds). 'Any anthology that starts with a story called 'Mecha-Jesus' is clearly not a traditional look at religion,' says EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publisher Brian Hades. 'This robotic savior is joined by the Hindu god Ganesh trying to break into Bollywood, the Sun God Ra discovering Coronation Street, a priest on Mars, a vampire in residential schools, and a woman with a secret under her hijab. 'Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods' definitely contains many surprises!' As in past versions of the Tesseract series, the editors are handpicked by the publisher. 'Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods' is edited by widely-published sci-fi/fantasy author and writing teacher Jerome Stueart who is a gay Baptist from the Yukon Territory and 'perfect heathen' media personality Liana Kerzner who is best known as Liana K. "Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods" is a lively, thoughtful interfaith/interpath anthology of creative and religious diversity - with a speculative fiction and fantasy twist! Media Contact: Janice Shoults, EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing www.edgewebsite.com 403.254.0160 About The Tesseracts Series: The first Tesseracts anthology was edited by Judith Merril. Since its publication in 1985, 299 authors/editors/translators and guests have contributed 502 pieces of Canadian speculative fiction, fantasy and horror for this series. Some of Canada's best known speculative fiction writers have been published within the pages of these volumes - including Margaret Atwood, William Gibson, Robert J. Sawyer, and Spider Robinson (to name a few). Tesseracts Eighteen is the forthcoming volume in the series. The entire series includes Tesseracts One through Eighteen, plus Tesseracts Q, which features translations of works by some of Canada's top francophone writers of science fiction and fantasy. 'Tesseracts 18: Wrestling with Gods' will be released by EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing in April 2015.

It may be an economy sized production, but it fills the bill as one of the funniest musical comedies ever conceived. Williamstown Theatre Festival goes all out to deliver a full course of music, theatre and dance for this venerable joyride.

1776 is based on the signing of our country's Declaration of Independence. We all know that the Declaration was written and signed, but just how it happened that hot humid summer in Philadelphia over two hundred years ago is an amazing story. Described as surprisingly funny and incredibly moving, this is a show not to miss!

'I am a coyote... a wolf... who has learned the escape route you must have to survive in order to get through life and enjoy it!'

Valencia College will hold its annual summer staple, the Valencia Dance Summer Repertory Concert, on July 13 and 14.

Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) has announced the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2012, a new public art initiative in Howard County, MD. The sculptures will be installed in April 2012 and will be in place for one year.

Howard County Arts Council (HCAC) has announced the 12 sites and sculptures selected for ARTsites 2012, a new public art initiative in Howard County, MD. The sculptures will be installed in April 2012 and will be in place for one year.

Marx Brothers 1928 Broadway musical can still make 'em laugh, but is at its best when Minnie's boys are upstaging everyone else.

From Saturday 20 November The Court Theatre will be transformed into the Kit Kat Klub for the Press Summer Season of CABARET.

From Saturday 20 November The Court Theatre will be transformed into the Kit Kat Klub for the Press Summer Season of CABARET.

200 students from across the United States as well as Australia, Canada and American Samoa are attending this summer's intensive curriculum at Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) to properly prepare them for a professional career in the performing arts.

200 students from across the United States as well as Australia, Canada and American Samoa are attending this summer's intensive curriculum at Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) to prepare for a professional career in the performing arts. BTP will culminate in an exciting festival featuring performances and workshops by the apprentices and various faculty members and guest artists, to be held at the University of South Florida from July 29-31.

COCA (Center of Creative Arts) will host a reception and Artists' Talk Friday, May 14 at 6pm for their exhibit Building Community. Artist and COCA instructor John Parker curates an exhibit featuring the work of COCA faculty members in a wide range of visual arts forms including painting, illustration, collage, sculpture, photography and digital media. Artists include Ilene Berman, Abigail Birhanu, Chris Martinez, Sara Moss, Maria Ojascastro, Katrina Shannon, and Stephanie Summerlin. The exhibit runs through July 16.

200 students from across the United States as well as Australia, Canada and American Samoa are attending this summer's intensive curriculum at Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) to properly prepare them for a professional career in the performing arts.

COCA (Center of Creative Arts) will host a reception and Artists' Talk Friday, May 14 at 6pm for their exhibit Building Community. Artist and COCA instructor John Parker curates an exhibit featuring the work of COCA faculty members in a wide range of visual arts forms including painting, illustration, collage, sculpture, photography and digital media. Artists include Ilene Berman, Abigail Birhanu, Chris Martinez, Sara Moss, Maria Ojascastro, Katrina Shannon, and Stephanie Summerlin. The exhibit runs through July 16.