Pacific Symphony launches its upcoming 2016-17 season in glorious style this September with a one-night-only spectacular-'An Evening with Renee Fleming,' featuring 'America's reigning diva' (The Washington Post) for more than a decade in a rare Orange County appearance.
Liverpudlian pop-punk quartet, WSTR, are thrilled to finally be announcing the completion and release of their debut album. Entitled 'Red, Green Or Inbetween', the record is set for release on January 20th, 2017 via No Sleep Records.
Djarum Bakti Budaya and SET Production proudly presents 'Satan Jawa', a silent film with live scoring directed by Garin Nugroho and composed by Rahayu Suppangah. The work evokes Javanese mythology and adapts it to a contemporary dance film inspired by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic work 'Nosferatu'.
Listen to Jonas Kaufmann's heartfelt version of the Godfather theme 'Parla più piano' - now also available on Spotify & Amazon: https://SonyClassical.lnk.to/JK-ParlaPiuPiano
Works by Bach, Bach and Bach are on the program for the next Cooperstown Summer Music Festival concert on Friday, August 19 at Christ Church in Cooperstown. The "Bach & Sons" concert features arias, cantatas, and sonatas by Johann Sebastian Bach and two of his four composer sons: Wilhelm Friedemann (WF) and Carl Phillip Emmanuel (CPE).
Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to bring back last season's steamy, sell-out hit BETTE, LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL BATHS, with Caitlin Jackson recreating Bette Midler's historic bathhouse concert in New York City. This year, Handbag is bringing the bathhouse to Boystown with nine performances only from August 12 - September 10, 2016 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. The press opening is Today, August 12 at 8 pm. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the show below!
Victory Gardens Theater announces casting for each of the 2016 IGNITION Festival of New Plays selected works, including The Wayward Bunny by Greg Kotis; BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate by Antoinette Nwandu; EOM (end of message) by Laura Jacqmin; Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames; Gaza Rehearsal by Karen Hartman; and Girls In Cars Underwater by Tegan McLeod.
Theater for the New City's Dream Up Festival presents 'Camp BoHoGro!', A New Satire Rife with Surreal Campfire Singalongs, Hallucinatory Hippies, Political Intrigue and Espionage.
Victory Gardens Theater announces casting for each of the 2016 IGNITION Festival of New Plays selected works, including The Wayward Bunny by Greg Kotis; BREACH: a manifesto on race in America through the eyes of a black girl recovering from self-hate by Antoinette Nwandu; EOM (end of message) by Laura Jacqmin; Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames; Gaza Rehearsal by Karen Hartman; and Girls In Cars Underwater by Tegan McLeod.
Stage Left Theatre announces Drekfest 2016, which performs on Tuesday, August 16th at 7:30pm at CSz Theatre, 929 W Belmont. Stage Left is proud to again partner with CSz Chicago for Drekfest 2016. CSz team members will be joining Stage Left company members and guest artists in staging the four finalists.
Pacific Symphony launches its upcoming 2016-17 season in glorious style this September with a one-night-only spectacular—“An Evening with Renée Fleming,” featuring “America's reigning diva” (The Washington Post) for more than a decade in a rare Orange County appearance! One of the most beloved and celebrated musical ambassadors of our time, Fleming captivates audiences with her sumptuous voice, consummate artistry and compelling stage presence. From the Metropolitan Opera and the White House to the Super Bowl and now the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, the internationally sought-after soprano arrives to inaugurate the Symphony's 10th season in its home. There is no better place in the world to hear this modern diva's sumptuous voice and dazzling technique than in the opulent and acoustically superior Segerstrom Concert Hall.
Pacific Symphony launches its upcoming 2016-17 season in glorious style this September with a one-night-only spectacular-'An Evening with Renee Fleming,' featuring 'America's reigning diva' (The Washington Post) for more than a decade in a rare Orange County appearance.
The Irish actor plays an opportunistic judge in Arthur Miller's classic about the Salem witch trials.
Hell in a Handbag Productions is pleased to bring back last season's steamy, sell-out hit BETTE, LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL BATHS, with Caitlin Jackson recreating Bette Midler's historic bathhouse concert in New York City. This year, Handbag is bringing the bathhouse to Boystown with nine performances only from August 12 - September 10, 2016 at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Ave. in Chicago. The press opening is Friday, August 12 at 8 pm. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the show below!
Refuge Theatre Project, the two-year-old company that produced the surprise hit musical of the 2015-16 season with its environmental staging of High Fidelity in a makeshift 'record store,' will present a one-night-only concert of songs by High Fidelity composer Tom Kitt. The evening, called I Got You, will showcase selections from Broadway musicals for which Kitt either composed the score or provided musical arrangements, along with new unpublished songs he's provided especially for the event. City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph Street is the event venue. Christopher Pazdernik, director of High Fidelity, will direct the concert, with music direction by Mike Evans.
The House Theatre of Chicago has announced the extension of the first play to ever grace its stage, the magic-filled crowd favorite Death & Harry Houdini, written and directed by The House Theatre of Chicago Artistic Director Nathan Allen and starring Company Member and professional magician Dennis Watkins as Harry Houdini. Filled with stunning magic, poignant dialogue and original music, Death & Harry Houdini presents the story of history's most famous magician and his life-long war against Death.
A management consultant with more than 35 years of experience has hit a home run with his new book on employee and corporate evaluation. 'The Strike Zone: Evaluating Individual and Corporate Performance' has won the Dog Ear Publishing Award of Literary Excellence. The book uses the analogy of baseball as a model to evaluate individual and corporate performance. Author R. Mark Janacek said he was inspired to write the book after listening to the president of a privately held consulting firm air his frustrations with the process of correctly evaluating human performance. 'It was clear to me that organizations have largely over-engineered what should be a simple and straightforward process,' he said. Janacek continued, 'Having observed the hand-wringing frustration of management with the performance evaluation system in scores of business settings over the course my career, it was also clear that evaluating performance should be as crisp and clear as calling: balls, strikes, and outs.' Janacek said he's most proud of the book's simplicity and versatility. 'It captured a set of business principles that, frankly, could be applied to any setting if there is the willingness to simplify rather than complicate the performance evaluation process,' he said. 'We use the 20/70/10 model proffered by former GE CEO Jack Welch in his best-selling book 'Winning,' in companion with 'The Strike Zone' methodology.' Based on 'The Strike Zone' evaluation methodology, employees who are in the upper 20 percent are tagged as the 'super-performers.' 'You know who they are; there's no mystery about the fact that they do most of the heavy lifting where actual business results are concerned,' Janacek said. 'The people at the other end of the spectrum who are in the bottom 10 percent are put on notice that unless they have a drastic and sudden uptick in performance, they are likely to be swept from the organization.' Janacek noted that, 'Managers in baseball constantly evaluate both team and individual performance. If you don't ruthlessly evaluate individual performance, you fundamentally have no clue as to what the team is capable of from a performance perspective,' he said. 'Evaluators, whether in baseball or business, need to determine: Do I have a superstar, an average performer or someone pulling us down?' He added, 'The Strike Zone' presents a simple but powerful model for performance improvement and is a must read for anyone in leadership.' Dog Ear Publishing editor Leslie Wilhelm Hatch agreed, nominating 'The Strike Zone' to the company's editorial board for the excellence award. The editorial team's recommendations are reviewed by the managing editor, editorial services manager and the publisher. Janacek said Hatch's feedback showed the book was particularly well-written, the style was easy to follow and it captured aspects of the central theme very well. 'I took a fundamentally boring subject and tried to make it interesting, using baseball as an analogous model.' 'In baseball,' Janacek said, 'A pitch is thrown and it's either ball, strike, foul or out - a clear and definable outcome with every pitch.' It leaves no ambiguity. 'The message is clear: There should be no such thing as partial credit for a given performance outcome. It is what it is - period. In baseball, if we started awarding pitchers one-half of a strike or two-thirds of a ball, or one-fourth of a foul etc., the game would be in utter chaos. The inherent simplicity of measuring performance is why I chose the game of baseball as the analogy for the book.' As he pointed out, 'We now live in a world where we are reluctant to pick winners and losers and rank performers accordingly. This weak-willed management mentality creates a kind of work-culture 'mush.' Personally that is not where I'd like to be, and I suspect most of us aspire to better than that.' A portion of proceeds from sales will go to charities related to The Ohio State University's Julie Bonasera ALS Research Fund, which supports the scientific and clinical research of ALS at The OSU Department of Neurology, and the Stephen Gross ALS Fund in Columbus, Ohio, which supports the ongoing needs of Mr. Stephen Gross and family, personal friends of Janacek. For additional information, please visit www.thestrikezonebook.com The Strike Zone: Evaluating Individual and Corporate Performance R. Mark Janacek Dog Ear Publishing ISBN: 978-1-4575-4265-7 170 pages $14.95 US Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4575-4608-2 170 pages $19.95 US Hardcover Available at Ingram, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and fine bookstores everywhere.
Miami City Ballet and Miami City Ballet School have announced that Arantxa Ochoa will join the School as its new Director of Faculty and Curriculum. Her appointment comes after three years of steady growth and expansion of the School under the leadership of MCB Artistic Director and MCB School Chairman Lourdes Lopez and Darleen Callaghan, who remains as Director of School Administration.
Once again, Archer played to a full house of very enthusiastic and appreciative cabaret lovers.
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