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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Occupational & industrial psychology
The Handbook of Behavioral Operations Management - Social and Psychological Dynamics in Production and Service Settings (Paperback)
Elliot Bendoly, Wout Van Wezel, Daniel G Bachrach
Over the last decade there has been an explosion of academic interest in the study of Behavioral Operations (Behavioral Ops). Simultaneous concerns have emerged about the adequacy with which now established Behavioral Ops phenomena are dealt with in degree-granting programs and corporate training agendas. Concerns stem from two points: (1) Pedagogical lessons regarding human behavioral are largely cast in the perspectives and terminology of underlying social/psychological theories. This has traditionally made it difficult for teachers of operations management content to link such knowledge to OM teaching plans and materials. (2) Games are seen as a major contribution to Behavioral Operations education, but experiments as described in literature are usually used for scientific research, and often difficult to replicate in teaching settings due to the use of unique proprietary software or insufficient descriptions of methods and materials used. Prior to now, no comprehensive teaching-oriented overview of Behavioral Operations has been available. The Handbook of Behavioral Operations fills this gap, providing easy to access insights into why associated behavioral phenomena exist in specific production and service settings, ready-to-play games and activities that allow instructors to demonstrate the phenomena in class settings, and applicable prescriptions for practice. By design the text serves a dual role as a desk/training reference to those practitioners already in the field, and presents a comprehensive framework for viewing behavioral operations from a systems perspective. As an interdisciplinary book relating the dynamics of human behavior to operations management, the Handbook is an essential resource for practitioners seeking to develop greater system understanding among their workers, as well as for instructors interested in emphasizing the practical relevance of behavior in operational settings.
International Handbook of Work and Health Psychology (Hardcover, 3rd Edition)
Cary Cooper, James Campbell Quick, Marc J. Schabracq
Now in its third edition, this authoritative handbook offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of work and health psychology. * Updated edition of a highly successful handbook * Focuses on the applied aspects of work and health psychology * New chapters cover emerging themes in this rapidly growing field * Prestigious team of editors and contributors
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel - Strengthening Your Mental Armor (Paperback)
Stephanie M. Conn
Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel illuminates the psychological, emotional, behavioral, and spiritual impact of police work on police officers, administrators, emergency communicators, and their families. Author Stephanie Conn, a clinician and researcher as well as a former police officer and dispatcher, debunks myths about weakness and offers practical strategies in plain language for police employees and their families struggling with traumatic stress and burnout. Sections of each chapter also offer guidance for frequently overlooked roles such as police administrators and civilian police employees. Using real-world anecdotes and exercises, this book provides strengths-based guidance to help navigate the many complex and sometimes difficult effects of police and emergency work.
The Case for Working with Your Hands - Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good (Paperback)
Matthew Crawford 1
For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve sitting at a desk.
Generations of school-leavers head for university lacking the skills to fix or even understand the most basic technology. Yet many of us are not suited to office life, while skilled manual work provides one of the few paths to a secure living and an independent life.
Drawing on the work of our greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Karl Marx to Iris Murdoch, as well as on his own experiences as an electrician and motorcycle mechanic. Matthew Crawford's irreverent and inspiring manifesto will change the way you think about work for ever.
Published in the USA as: Shop Class as Soulcraft - An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Innovating Minds - Rethinking Creativity to Inspire Change (Hardcover)
Wilma Koutstaal, Jonathan Binks
A groundbreaking, scientific approach to creative thinking From entrepreneurs to teachers, engineers to artists, almost everyone stands to benefit from becoming more creative. New ways of thinking, making, and imagining have the potential lives and society as a whole. And yet, the science behind creativity has largely remained a mystery, with few people aware of the ways we can optimize our own creative and innovative ideas. Innovating Minds: Rethinking Creativity To Inspire Change offers a perspective, grounded in science, that allows us to achieve both individual and collective creative goals. Wilma Koutstaal and Jonathan Binks draw upon extensive research from brain, behavioral, and organizational sciences to present a unique five-part "thinking framework" in which ideas are continually refined and developed. Beyond scientific research, Innovating Minds also describes the everyday creative challenges of people from all walks of life, offering insights from dancers, scientists, designers, and architects. The book shows that creativity is far from a static process; it is steeped with emotion and motivation, involving the dynamic interactions of our minds, brains, and environments. Accordingly, the book challenges readers to put the material into use through thinking prompts, creativity cross-checks, and other activities. Vibrant and engaging, Innovating Minds reveals a unique approach to harnessing creative ideas and putting them into action. It offers a fascinating exploration of the science of creativity along with new and valuable resources for becoming more innovative thinkers and doers.
Remaking Culture on Wall Street - A Behavioral Science Approach for Building Trust from the Bottom Up (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Henry Engler
Since 2008, financial firms have paid, in aggregate, in excess of $320 billion in fines related to misconduct. Nearly ten years later, while many large financial firms have increased their attention to bad behavior and cultural drivers, the degree of commitment and progress in these efforts has not been even across the industry. Serious or persistent misconduct continues in some firms. Many organizations have attempted to curb bad behavior through intrusive monitoring and enforcement actions which reflect a lack of trust in their employees. A different approach is needed, one that gets at the root causes of misconduct and attempts to rebuild culture from the bottom up, with the employee at the center. This is where tools from behavioral science can help senior risk officers, compliance and business heads better understand the mind-set of their employees and internal communities and create an environment where the link between ethical behavior and strong business results is promoted. If firms continue to fail in establishing stronger internal cultures, regulators may feel compelled to step in and dictate what they should do. This book emphasizes the need for a change in approach, looking at the increased incidence of misconduct and culture breakdown since the 2008 crisis, how regulators have responded, and includes a series of proposals to restore that trust and reform culture.
Organizational Effectiveness - The Role of Psychology (Hardcover)
Ivan T. Robertson, Militza Callinan, Dave Bartram
Organizational Effectiveness: The Role of Psychology examines psychological approaches in organizations, not from the more common perspective of their impact on individuals, but in relation to how the work of psychologists impacts on the overall effectiveness of the organization. It also provides a critical review of what psychology has to offer; the way psychologists choose the problems they address, work with others, and evaluate and demonstrate the impact they have, is discussed.
Robertson, Callinan and Bartram have brought together leading researchers and practitioners in work and organizational psychology. Each chapter provides a review of current knowledge, practice, issues and future directions in their own area of expertise, with a focus on contributions and implications for organizational functioning and the wider arena of managerial thinking.
This book is for anyone---students, scholars, practitioners or managers---interested in understanding the complex relations between individual, group and organizational performance and effectiveness. It is a valuable and challenging resource for advanced students and practitioners of occupational psychology, organizational behaviour, HRM, and psychological consultancy in organizations.
Work and Quality of Life - Ethical Practices in Organizations (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Nora P. Reilly, M. Joseph Sirgy, C. Allen Gorman
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Employees have personal responsibilities as well as responsibilities to their employers. They also have rights. In order to maintain their well-being, employees need opportunities to resolve conflicting obligations. Employees are often torn between the ethical obligations to fulfill both their work and non-work roles, to respect and be respected by their employers and coworkers, to be responsible to the organization while the organization is reciprocally responsible to them, to be afforded some degree of autonomy at work while attending to collaborative goals, to work within a climate of mutual employee-management trust, and to voice opinions about work policies, processes and conditions without fear of retribution. Humanistic organizations can recognize conflicts created by the work environment and provide opportunities to resolve or minimize them.
This handbook empirically documents the dilemmas that result from responsibility-based conflicts. The book is organized by sources of dilemmas that fall into three major categories: individual, organizational (internal policies and procedures), and cultural (social forces external to the organization), including an introductionand a final integration of the many ways in which organizations can contribute to positive employee health and well-being.
This book is aimed at both academicians and practitioners who are interested in how interventions that stem from industrial and organizational psychology may address ethical dilemmas commonly faced by employees."
Payoff - The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (Hardcover)
Bestselling author Dan Ariely reveals fascinating new insights into motivation—showing that the subject is far more complex than we ever imagined.
Every day we work hard to motivate ourselves, the people we live with, the people who work for and do business with us. In this way, much of what we do can be defined as being "motivators." From the boardroom to the living room, our role as motivators is complex, and the more we try to motivate partners and children, friends and coworkers, the clearer it becomes that the story of motivation is far more intricate and fascinating than we've assumed.
Payoff investigates the true nature of motivation, our partial blindness to the way it works, and how we can bridge this gap. With studies that range from Intel to a kindergarten classroom, Ariely digs deep to find the root of motivation—how it works and how we can use this knowledge to approach important choices in our own lives. Along the way, he explores intriguing questions such as: Can giving employees bonuses harm productivity? Why is trust so crucial for successful motivation? What are our misconceptions about how to value our work? How does your sense of your mortality impact your motivation?
Transforming Performance Management to Drive Performance - An Evidence-based Roadmap (Paperback)
Rose A Mueller-Hanson, Elaine D. Pulakos
Recently a revolution has taken place in organizations around the world to transform their performance management systems from burdensome chores into a valuable business practices. Many high-profile companies have announced they are getting rid of the dreaded performance reviews and replacing them with ongoing coaching and feedback. Although these cases are inspiring other organizations to contemplate change, many are left with more questions than answers. While many fads and quick fixes have been proposed to answer these questions, little research exists to support them. This book provides a practical and evidence-based guide for building a performance management approach that actually improves performance. It cuts through the hype and gives actionable advice, useful tools, and real-world examples for organizations to build the business case for change, plan the transformation, design the new system, and implement the change effectively. Featuring research findings as well as concrete strategies from organizations that have proven successful, this book provides a roadmap for meaningful change. It will be of interest to professionals and scholars interested in evidence-based performance management and the challenges facing organizations.
Finding Time to Lead - Seven Practices to Unleash Outrageous Potential (Paperback)
Leslie Peters
The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology - V2: Organizational Psychology (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Deniz S. Ones, Neil Anderson, Chockalingam Viswesvaran, Handan Kepir Sinangil
The second volume in the SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Organizational and Work Psychology looks in detail at how teams and individuals function and perform. It covers motivation and organizational socialisation as well as the latest research into diversity and organizational culture in the workplace. There are also sections on social networks and how job loss and the experience of unemployment can affect individuals and wider groups within organizations. Part One: Lenses Part Two: Social and Political Order Part Three: Legacies Part Four: Problems and Problematics
The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology - V3: Managerial Psychology and Organizational Approaches (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Deniz S. Ones, Neil Anderson, Handan Kepir Sinangil, Chockalingam Viswesvaran
The third volume in The SAGE Handbook of Industrial, Organizational and Work Psychology concentrates on business decision-making and the many factors influencing the adoption and implementation of IWO practices. Chapter topics include utility assessments of interventions, decision-making errors in IWO systems, large-scale interventions and best practices reviews. Volume Three offers a comprehensive overview of the field for anyone working in or studying managerial or organizational psychology.
Progress in Psychological Science Around the World. Volume 2: Social and Applied Issues - Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Psychology (Paperback)
Qicheng Jing, Mark R. Rosenzweig
Progress in Psychological Science around the World, Volumes 1 and 2, present the main contributions from the 28th International Congress of Psychology, held in Beijing in 2004. These expert contributions include the Nobel laureate address, the Presidential address, and the Keynote and State-of-the-Art lectures. They are written by international leaders in psychology from 25 countries and regions around the world. The authors present a variety of approaches and perspectives that reflect cutting-edge advances in psychological science. This second volume builds on the coverage of neural, cognitive, and developmental issues from the first volume, to address social and applied issues in modern psychology. The topics covered include: educational psychology and measurement, health psychology, and social and cultural psychology. Organizational, applied, and international psychology are also discussed. Progress in Psychological Science around the World, with its broad coverage of psychological research and practice, and its highly select group of world renowned authors, will be invaluable for researchers, professionals, teachers, and students in the field of psychology.
The Cambridge Handbook of Technology and Employee Behavior (Hardcover)
Richard N. Landers
Experts from across all industrial-organizational (IO) psychology describe how increasingly rapid technological change has affected the field. In each chapter, authors describe how this has altered the meaning of IO research within a particular subdomain and what steps must be taken to avoid IO research from becoming obsolete. This Handbook presents a forward-looking review of IO psychology's understanding of both workplace technology and how technology is used in IO research methods. Using interdisciplinary perspectives to further this understanding and serving as a focal text from which this research will grow, it tackles three main questions facing the field. First, how has technology affected IO psychological theory and practice to date? Second, given the current trends in both research and practice, could IO psychological theories be rendered obsolete? Third, what are the highest priorities for both research and practice to ensure IO psychology remains appropriately engaged with technology moving forward?
From Difficult to Disturbed - Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees (Paperback, Special ed.)
Laurence Miller
Nationally syndicated career columnist Joyce Lain Kennedy's ten best career books for 2007 How does an already busy manager deal with people whose personalities are difficult or even seriously disturbed? The answer lies in using practical psychology to understand just what it is that makes them tick, whether it's something as common as being introverted or extroverted . . . or something much more serious. From Difficult to Disturbed helps readers become better managers by providing insight into both big and small people-problems that can seriously disrupt the workplace if they're not handled correctly. The book contains down-to-earth solutions for dealing with: Personality Types including avoidant, dependent, histrionic, narcissistic, or antisocial workers * Common People Problems such as unproductive, angry, uncooperative, or chronic problem employees * Mental Disorders such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety and panic disorders, as well as alcohol and substance abuse Every workplace is filled with a wide range of personalities. This book gives managers the insight, understanding, and tools they need to get the best from those who present the toughest problems.
How to Stay Cool, Calm and Collected When the Pressure's On - A Stress-Control Plan for Business People (Paperback, Special Ed.)
"Pressures, problems, and conflicts are a fact of life. But the manager who can face problems head-on and deal with them calmly is way ahead of the game. How to Stay Cool, Calm & Collected When the Pressure's On offers a systematic approach to dealing with a world that often seems a chaotic confluence of tough decisions, difficult situations, and combative people. Written by a stress expert with a Ph.D. in organizational psychology, this antidote to stress and strain lays out a unique and powerful approach to making wise choices and taking actions that will put readers in control of any situation. Once the author's ""Command and Control"" techniques are learned, they can be used again and again in all areas of life. Readers will learn how to: * destroy counterproductive, stress-producing habits * adopt new, effective habits * become mentally tough, emotionally in control * communicate in a positive way How to Stay Cool Calm & Collected When the Pressure's On provides checklists, quotes from stress conquerors, and an outline for a personal effectiveness plan. By carefully adhering to the book's principles, anyone can erase the ravages of stress and move on to a more productive, I-can-handle-any-problem attitude. Without the energy-wasting effort of worrying, readers can concentrate on the important things: achieving success and enjoying their lives"
Work Stress and Coping - Forces of Change and Challenges (Paperback)
Philip J. Dewe, Cary L. Cooper
In Work Stress and Coping the authors provide an historical account of workplace stress, taking a broad approach by integrating the macro forces impacting the micro, and highlighting what the research in the field tells us about the changing nature of work so that individuals and organisations can create more liveable working environments. With an emphasis on the growing influence of globalization, the book explores the forces of change within contemporary societies and assesses how they have fundamentally changed the nature of work and the direction of research into stress and coping. Capturing the history, context, critique and transformation of theory into practice, the authors offer an insight into how managers and businesses have failed, the effects this has had on how work is experienced, the evolution and relevance of existing theories and suggest alternative methods and future directions. Suitable reading for students of HRM, Organisational Behaviour and Occupational Psychology.
Handbook of Psychology - Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Hardcover, 2nd Edition)
Irving B. Weiner, Neal W. Schmitt, Scott Highhouse
Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Coaching the Brain - Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching (Paperback)
Joseph O'Connor, Andrea Lages
Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O'Connor and Andrea Lages ask and answer the question: 'How can we use our knowledge of the brain to help ourselves and others to learn, change, and develop?'. This book will show you how to apply insights from the latest neuroscience research in a practical way, in the fields of personal development, coaching and cognitive therapy. Accessible and practical, it begins with an overview of how the brain works along with an explanation of how our brain changes due to our actions and thoughts, illuminating how these habits can be changed through neuroplasticity. Understanding the neuroscience of goals and mental models helps us to work with and change them, and clarity about emotions and the emotional basis of values can help achieve happiness. Most importantly, neuroscience illuminates how we learn, as well as the power of expectations. The book also explores the key lessons we can take from neuroscience for high performance and leadership. Eminently accessible, this book gives you new tools to help yourself and others create better futures. As a whole, the book will provide you with a new respect for the depth and complexity of your thinking and emotions. Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, with its clarity and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, as well as leaders, coach supervisors and HR and L&D professionals, and will be a key text for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology.
Science, Technology, and Society - New Perspectives and Directions (Hardcover)
Todd L. Pittinsky
This book gathers inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the effects that today's advances in science and technology have on issues ranging from government policy-making to how we see the differences between men and women. The chapters investigate how invention and innovation really take place, how science differs from competing forms of knowledge, and how science and technology could contribute more to the greater good of humanity. For instance, should there be legal restrictions on 'immoral inventions'? A key theme that runs throughout the book concerns who is taken into account at each stage and who is affected. The amount of influence users have on technology development and how non-users are factored in are evaluated as the impact of scientific and technological progression on society is investigated, including politics, economy, family life, and ethics.
The Legal Mind - A New Introduction to Legal Epistemology (Hardcover)
Bartosz Brozek
How does a lawyer think? Does legal intuition exist? Do lawyers need imagination? Why is legal language so abstract? It is no longer possible to answer these questions by applying philosophical analysis alone. Recent advances in the cognitive sciences have reshaped our conceptions of the human mental faculties and the tools we use to solve problems. A new picture of the functioning of the legal mind is emerging. In The Legal Mind, Bartosz Brozek uses philosophical arguments and insight from the cognitive sciences to depict legal thinking as a close cooperation between three cognitive mechanisms - intuition, imagination, and language - and addresses the question of how to efficiently use these mental tools. This novel and provocative approach provides a fresh perspective on legal thinking and gives rise to important questions pertaining to the limits of legal interpretation and rationality in the law.
Handbook of Work Stress (Hardcover, New)
Julian Barling, E.Kevin Kelloway, Michael R. Frone
Questions about the causes or sources of work stress have been the subject of considerable research, as well as public fascination, for several decades. Earlier interest in this issue focused on the question of whether some jobs are simply more inherently stressful than others. Other questions that soon emerged asked whether some individuals were more prone to stress than others. The Handbook of Work Stress focuses primarily on identifying the different sources of work stress across different contexts and individuals. Key Features: * Affords the most broad and credible perspective on the subject of work stress available * The editors are all prominent researchers in the field of work stress, and have been instrumental in defining and developing the field from an organizational-psychological and organizational-behavior perspective * International contributors are included, reflecting similarities and differences from around the world * Chapter authors from the United States, Canada, England, Sweden, Japan, and Australia have been invited to participate, reflecting most of the countries in which active research on work stress is taking place. The Handbook of Work Stress is essential reading for researchers in the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, human resources, health psychology, public health and employee assistance.
The Psychology of Food Marketing and Overeating (Paperback)
Frans Folkvord
Integrating recent research and existing knowledge on food marketing and its effects on the eating behaviour of children, adolescents, and adults, this timely collection explores how food promotion techniques can be used to promote healthier foods. Numerous factors influence what, when, and how we eat, but one of the main drivers behind the unhealthy dietary intake of people is food marketing. Bringing together important trends from different areas of study, with state-of-the-art insights from multiple disciplines, the book examines the important factors and psychological processes that explain the effects of food marketing in a range of contexts, including social media platforms. The book also provides guidelines for future research by critically examining interventions and their effectiveness in reducing the impact of food marketing on dietary intake, in order to help develop new research programs, legislation, and techniques about what can be done about unhealthy food marketing. With research conducted by leading scholars from across the world, this is essential reading for students and academics in psychology and related areas, as well as professionals interested in food marketing and healthy eating.
Imagination First - Unlocking the Power of Possibility (Paperback)
Eric Liu, Scott Noppe-Brandon, Lincoln Center Institute
When imagination becomes habit, it can transform your work and your life The best corporations know that innovative thinking is the only competitive advantage that cannot be outsourced. The best schools are those that create cultures of imagination. Now in paperback, Imagination First introduces a wide-variety of individuals who make a habit of imaginative thinking and creative action, offering a set of universal practices that anyone can use to transform their life at work, home, and play. These 28.5 practices will enable anyone to become more imaginative and to teach others to do so as well from corporate executive to educator to platoon sergeant. Bonus content includes * Winning "practices" submitted by the public * Guidelines for educators who want to cultivate creativity in their classrooms * Expanded resource section The book is filled with illustrative stories of creative leaders, teachers, artists, and scientists that clearly illustrate the original practices and new material that shows how to bring imagination to life.
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Review: Aces (Signal Ensemble)
Steinhagen's characters are fun but lack completed plot
Signal Ensemble presents
Written by Jon Steinhagen
Directed by Ronan Marra
at Signal Theatre, 1802 W. Bernice Ave. (map)
through June 18th | tickets: $15-$20 | more info
Reviewed by Jason Rost
It's a challenge for me to watch Joseph Stearns and not imagine him to be the theatrical embodiment of Keith Richards, a persona he nailed even without bearing the most striking resemblance to the rock star god in Signal Ensemble's Aftermath (our review). Lucky for me in Jon Steinhagen's new play, Aces, the character Stearns plays is not too far of a stretch from the vice-ridden musician. Director Ronan Marra's ensemble truly taps into this world perfectly. The characters are all delineated with their own passions and eccentricities. Steinhagen makes some clever but not too obvious 70's references. Now if only Steinhagen could give his characters a consistent plot to allow us to invest more interest in them, this play would be something worth betting on. Unfortunately though, what starts as a fun con-artist story with possibilities of a feminist theme on the side, goes every which way attempting to give each character their own equally important arc which ultimately waters down all of them. Aside from a few strong scenes, the fun dwindles as the play progresses.
The tone of the writing is a little like M*A*S*H. We go from screwball comedy to sentimental love and friendship and back again. Throw in some anti-war sentiments, all set in 1975 Vegas. Instead of military surgeons though, Aces deals with the profession of casino card dealers (at least it does for a little while). The setup is a scam being run by a group of dealers and casino workers. The ringleader of the operation is Lloyd (played by the wonderful character actor Vincent Lonergan). The issue at the top of the play though is that one of the dealers has died, and the scam called "Aces" can no longer operate without the proper number of dealers on the floor. In comes Samantha (Simone Roos) as the new blackjack dealer hired. Let the clichéd 'boob' jokes begin. The other female in the cast is Linda (played with great complexity by Elizabeth Bagby), the cocktail waitress with an edge and failed hopes.
The original idea is for each of the members of the scam to go out with Samantha and see if she's the type of individual who might be willing to take part in it. Time soon tells that this gal from Reno can hang with these Vegas low-lifes. She even has the capability to improve the scam. However, Steinhagen vacates the scam storyline around this point and focuses on each individual character, Steinhagen himself playing the alcoholic floor manager who is lonely after his younger brother Pete (an excellent Philip Winston) moves out. Samantha now becomes a tool to explore what's going on inside each of the other characters and develops a close relationship to Pete, the most innocent of the bunch. The best, most human and intimate scene of the night is between the two of them sitting on the floor around a lamp she buys to help decorate his empty bachelor pad. Everyone in this group is stuck where they are, mostly for money reasons, to which Samantha asks one of the more resonant questions of the night, "Don't any of you live within your means?"
There is definitely a fair share of zingers in Steinhagen's script with plenty of "breaking balls" in the same vein as Goodfellas. Some of them land stealthily and other's don't, but as with any comedic writing you have to put it in front of an audience to see what gets laughs and the lackluster punch lines can easily be swapped out. More than anything though I just longed to know whose story this was and for the stakes to be higher. Duke's debt issue, for one, is a little too easily solved.
Simone Roos gives life to this play with her smart, sexy performance playing Samantha as never quite what she seems. Stearns is a delight and his disco dancing is hysterical. Representing the anti-war nomadic class of the 70's is Aaron Snook's character, Garrett. Snook masters the art of silence and strums a lovely guitar.
Ronan Marra's direction gets the swagger correct, but it doesn't hit sightlines. With three-quarter seating, Marra places characters directly in front of each section of the audience. While it works when you happen to be the particular audience in front of the central action (almost always the center), more often than not you have to settle for an audio experience listening closely to what's happening on the other side of the room while you can only stare at a blackjack dealer two feet in front of you. Even while there are only two characters on stage, Marra has the actors on the same plane, still making life difficult for the audience in the alley seating sections. Part of the sightline issue derives from Melania Lancy's set, which is ultimately too flat and two-dimensional, forcing actors to hug the back wall too frequently.
In the end, this is much more sentimental character study than Ocean's 11 style heist plot. This would be less of a problem, except that there is so much setup to the scam that when Steinhagen decides to drop that part of the story almost entirely it feels like the first half of the play was a waste. Nevertheless, the character interplay is light and a great time. It's an entertaining group of characters to spend a couple hours with, just don't expect to feel closure in the end, and be sure to sit in the center.
Rating: ★★½
Signal Ensemble Theatre presents the fourth production in their 2010-2011, eighth anniversary season, the world premiere comedy Aces, written by ensemble member and multiple Jeff award-winner Jon Steinhagen, and directed by Ronan Marra at Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 West Berenice Ave. Performances are Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20 for full price and $15 for industry/students/seniors. $5 OFF all full-priced tickets on Memorial Day weekend, May 26-29. For more information or to buy tickets call 773-347-1350 or visit www.signalensemble.com. The show runs about 110 minutes with one intermission, and $5 from every ticket sold on June 11 will benefit www.SeasonofConcern.org
Photos by Johnny Knight.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Jason Rost, Signal Ensemble Theatre, World Premier | Tagged: Aaron Snook, Aces, Elizabeth Bagby, Jason Rost, Jenilee Houghton, Johnny Knight, Jon Steinhagen, Joseph Stearns, mark Hurni, Mary O'Dowd, Melania Lancy, Philip Winston, Ronan Marra, Signal Ensemble Theatre, Simone Roos, Tony Ingram, Vincent Lonergan |	Leave a comment »
Review: The Man Who Came to Dinner (Circle Theatre)
Posted on March 4, 2011 by Scotty Zacher
Circle Theatre serves up a hilariously entertaining 'Dinner'
Circle Theatre presents
Written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Directed by Mary Redmon
at Madison Street Theatre, Oak Park (map)
through April 3 | tickets: $20-$24 | more info
Reviewed by Allegra Gallian
When an infamously demanding radio personality slips on the ice of his dinner host's front stoop and is forced to take up residence against his will in their home for six weeks, among their various relatives, famous friend visitors and townsfolk, only madness can ensue. Such is the story of The Man Who Came to Dinner, currently playing at Circle Theatre.
The Man Who Came to Dinner begins with an energetic cast (maybe a little bit too energetic). While the show is a farcical comedy and over-the-top acting is to be expected, some performers, such as Mrs. Stanley (Patti Paul), wife of Earnest Stanley who are hosting radio personality Sheridan Whiteside, teeter on excessive overacting, which can be grating at times. Whiteside (Jon Steinhagen) starts off understated, delivering dryly bitter lines and insults in a rather hilarious manner. As the show progresses, we see Steinhagen begin to talk faster and faster which – though serving as a method of condescension to others – at times become hard to understand and just a tad grating. However, when taken as a whole, Steinhagen does a great job of embodying the character and fleshing Whiteside out.
Lorraine Sheldon (Heather Townsend) is also plagued by use of quick speech, but as she is a larger than life character, a famous actress friend of Whiteside's who he's invited to visit, Townsend's bombasity works here, as Townsend uses not only her voice but her facial expressions and body language to bring Lorraine Sheldon to life.
Whiteside has traveled with his secretary Maggie Cutler (Kieran Welsh-Phillips), who keeps his life in order while he's indisposed. Welsh-Phillips offers depth to the character of Maggie. She's a presence on stage, speaking clearly and delivering her lines with confidence and knowledge of her character's story. Maggie also falls in love while they are stuck at the Stanley residence with Burt Jefferson (delightfully played by Danny Pancratz), a newspaper reporter who has come in search of a story on Whiteside.
Harriet Stanley (Brooke Sherrod Jaeky), an ax murderer masquerading as Mr. Stanley's sister, Nurse Preen (Katie Kisner), Whiteside's nurse and Beverly Carlton and Banjo (Jerry Bloom), friends of Whiteside's who visit, round out the list of standout performances. Jaeky is understated, creating a strange yet fascinating character. Kisner is rather comical as she attempts to deal with Whiteside's temper tantrums and antics. Bloom takes on characters based on famous character men: Beverly on Noel Coward and Banjo on Harpo Marx. Bloom does a terrific job of paying homage to these characters as well as bringing his own take to the roles.
The set, designed by Bob Knuth, is quite ornately decorated. From the busily detailed wallpaper to the decorative window treatments to the proper-looking furniture and baby grand piano it's clear that we're in the home of wealthy individuals. A grand staircase leads to the home's bedrooms and French doors lead to an (offstage) library. The attention to detail is exceptional and the set is visually interesting, a perfect backdrop for this performance.
The Man Who Came to Dinner proves to be an entertaining show and ends on a hilarious note that keeps the audience laughing as the actors take their bows.
The Man Who Came to Dinner plays at Circle Theatre (1010 W. Madison, Oak Park) through April 3rd. Tickets are $20 to $24 and can be purchases by calling (708) 771-0700.
Filed under: 2011 Reviews, Allegra Gallian, Circle Theatre | Tagged: Allegra Gallian, Bob Knuth, Brooke Sherrod Jaeky, Circle Theatre, Claire Chrzan, Danny Pancratz, Debbie DiVerde, Elizabeth Wislar, Gary C. Echelmeyer, George S. Kaufman, Heather Townsend, Jake Jones, James Sladek, Jeffrey Clarke Stokes, Jerry Bloom, Jon Steinhagen, Kate Kisner, Kevin Sheehan, Kieran Welsh-Phillips, Leigh Ryan, Madison Street Theatre, Mary Redmon, Moss Hart, Noah Sullivan, Patricia Austin, Patti Paul, Peter Esposito, Peter J. Storms, Rebecca Miles Steiner, The Man Who Came to Dinner |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Raven Theatre)
Posted on October 20, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
This cat still purrs
Raven Theatre presents
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Michael Menendian
at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark (map)
through December 19 | tickets: $30 | more info
Reviewed by Barry Eitel
Chicago has always had a love affair with Tennessee Williams. This city is where the playwright first found success in 1944 with A Glass Menagerie. The man went on to win a shelf full of Tonys and Pulitzers, but he always had a captive audience in Chicago. Even almost thirty years after death, each theatre season sees a smattering of Tennessee. What makes this more remarkable is that all his best known plays are set in humid locales far removed from the evils of Lake Michigan winters (Glass may be set in the St. Louis, but that's basically the Midwest's Florida!).
Set in the steamy Mississippi Delta, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof—which earned him his second Pulitzer Prize—covers all the topics that keep Williams relevant. The lengthy play drips in sex, lays bare the dispossession of the nouveau riche in the 20th Century, and cranks out family dysfunction better than a late night talk show. Under the smart directing hand of Michael Menendian, Raven Theatre's production puts forth a clean production of the canonical text. The superbly talented cast makes the show sing.
An interesting subtlety Menendian caresses out of the script is a change of focus from Maggie (the titular cat) to the touchy relationship between Big Daddy and his alcoholic son, Brick. Sexy, desperate, and, well, catty, it is easy for productions to ride on Maggie's struggle for survival in a world of plantations and debutants. And the play's discussion of loveless marriages and repressed homosexuality, refreshingly frank for 1955, often supersede the more classical themes of death and inheritance. Not here. This Cat is not built around Brick's and Maggie's wrecked relationship – it's about Big Daddy's blind desire to leave his dynasty to the worst candidate for the job, and the resulting consequences.
The show's paradigm shift is in no way a slight against Liz Fletcher, who portrays Maggie with class and vibrancy. She makes it clear that this cat came from poverty; Fletcher keeps the claws bared. By the final moments, we know she will do anything she has to in order to secure her future. An aloof Jason Huysman brings a healthy dose of humor to his Brick. His main goal is to drink as much as he can until he hears that "click" that will bring peace into his life, and nothing will stop him in his quest (which sounds more depressing than funny, but leads to quite a few laughs). As Brick's Big Mama, JoAnn Montemurro does great work, keeping the audience tied in to her alternating spats between subservient housewife to head of the family. The breakout performance in the production, though, belongs to Jon Steinhagen as Big Daddy. Steinhagen wraps the character in layers. He's cranky, lecherous, vicious, yet oddly understanding of Brick's abnormal (for the time) relationship with his dead friend. In some respects, Steinhagen's Big Daddy seems more in tune with Brick's sexuality than Brick.
The cast keeps the pace breezy and slow, which works in their favor. It has the effect of dousing any sexual fire between Maggie and Brick, but perhaps there shouldn't really be much there, anyway. There are a handful of overcooked moments that could've been sheared off; when Brick enters shirtless and Fletcher gives him a long, silent stare is one example. Katherine Chavez's guitar-heavy scoring is also unnecessary. It creates artificial melodrama. Raven should leave it to the actors to create the mood.
Either way, this is a rock solid production of a classic American play, which may be its biggest fault (and my problem with Raven in general). There are moments where it feels like a museum piece. Unlike David Cromer's explosive Streetcar Named Desire (our review) last season, this Cat lacks revelation. I'm not asking for crazy concepts or heavy doses of deconstruction, but, existentially, this production needs a shot in the arm.
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Barry Eitel, Raven Theatre, Tennessee Williams | Tagged: A Glass Menagerie, Andrei Onegin, Barry Eitel, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chicago theater review, Christine Ferriter, David Cromer, Eleanor Katz, Greg Caldwell, Jason Huysman, Jeff Olsen, Jen Short, JoAnn Montemurro, Jon Steinhagen, Jonathan Nichols, Justin Castellano, Katherine M. Chavez, Kelly Dailey, Leif Olsen, Liz Fletcher, Mary O'Dowd, Michael Menendian, Mike Boone, Mina Hyun-Ok Hong, Raven Theatre, Ray Toler, Tennessee Williams |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: The Real Inspector Hound (Signal Ensemble)
Hammed-up Stoppard fails to find the laughs
Signal Ensemble Theatre presents
By Tom Stoppard
Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice (map)
Through Sept. 18 | Tickets: $15–20 | more info
Reviewed by Leah A. Zeldes
From the time the house opens on Signal Ensemble Theatre's The Real Inspector Hound, to the close of the play, Charles Schoenherr lies unmoving on stage while the other characters cavort around him, never noticing this still figure at stage rear until nearly the end of the one-act comedy.
It just might be the best performance of the play.
Any theater reviewer who takes aim at Tom Stoppard's 1968 comedy risks being classified with Birdboot and Moon, the two pompous critics on whom the play focuses. Stoppard, once a critic himself, mercilessly skewers theater writers, painting them as arrogant, self-absorbed and none too ethical.
The critics comment on the play within a play taking place in front of them in highly affected terms, chat through the action, munch chocolates and begin to write their reviews mid-play. Birdboot (Jon Steinhagen), a married, middle-aged philanderer, flaunts his position to entice pretty actresses while piously proclaiming he does no such thing, while Moon (Philip Winston), his paper's no. 2 critic, continually laments his second-string status. The two put in some comic turns, but they aren't enough to overcome the broad strokes with which Director Ronan Marra paints the rest of the show.
The meta-play, an exaggerated English country-house mystery, a la The Mousetrap, takes places in what Mary O'Dowd as Mrs. Drudge, the creepy, scenery-chewing housekeeper, tells us is the "drawing room of Lady Muldoon's country residence one morning in early spring." Scenic Designer Melania Lancy has created a fine drawing-room set in Signal's spiffy new theater, the former home of now Los Angeles-based Breadline Theatre Group, a 50-seat venue in Chicago's North Center neighborhood.
Wealthy widow Lady Cynthia Muldoon (Meredith Bell Alvarez), is entertaining her lover, Simon Gascoyne (John Blick) and — to his embarrassment — Felicity Cunningham (Katie Genualdi), the ingenue he's also been seeing. Added to the menage is the wheelchair-bound Major Magnus Muldoon (Colby Sellers), half-brother to Lady Cynthia's late husband, who lusts after his hostess. Meanwhile, the radio announces that a murderous madman is loose in the neighborhood and Inspector Hound (Joseph Stearns), a dog of a police detective, arrives on the scene.
As the play becomes more existential, the critics break through the fourth wall and get drawn into the action on stage. In this production, comic business is piled so high that the parody becomes a parody of itself, laden with overdrawn gestures and pointless shtick, such as when characters continually lift a telephone receiver for no apparent reason. It doesn't help that the pace crawls.
Through it all, Schoenherr lies, still and untwitching. That's acting.
Review: ★½
Note: Allow time for finding street parking, as well as extra time for traveling to the theater on nights when the Cubs play at home.
(L to R) Birdboot (Jon Steinhagen) and Moon (Philip Winston) write their reviews of the play during the play, Signal Ensemble Theatre's inaugural production in their new venue Photo by Johnny Knight.
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Leah A. Zeldes, LiveWire Chicago, Tom Stoppard | Tagged: Anthony Ingram, Breadline Theatre Group, Charles Schoenherr, Colby Sellers, Elsa Hiltner, John Blick, Johnny Knight, Jon Steinhagen, Joseph Stearns, Julie Ballard, Katie Genualdi, Leah A. Zeldes, Mary O'Dowd, Melania Lancy, Meredith Bell Alvarez, Philip Winston, Ronan Marra, Signal Ensemble Theatre, Stephanie Ehemann, The Real Inspector Hound, Tom Stoppard |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: The Odd Couple (Raven Theatre)
Oddly Uninspiring
written by Neil Simon
at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark Street (map)
through July 18th | tickets: $20-$30 | more info
reviewed by Keith Ecker
Oscar is messy. Felix is tidy. Oscar is brash. Felix is meek. Oscar likes gambling and cigars. Felix likes cooking and vacuuming. They're both divorcees. They live together. They're not gay.
If you pitched this as a show concept to a modern-day television executive, he'd either laugh you out of his office or option it as the next banal reality TV show. Either way, the idea would be seen as too simplistic and naïve for a contemporary television audience. And that's saying a lot, considering this is the same audience that demanded 11 seasons of "7th Heaven".
But back in 1965, this is exactly what constituted good theatre. That's when Neil Simon's acclaimed The Odd Couple—featuring the slovenly Oscar and the uptight Felix–premiered on Broadway, garnering that year's Tony for Best Play. In fact, it was such a hit that it ran for 966 performances, took a leap to the big screen in 1968, jumped to the small screen in 1970, went animated in 1975 and was revived for television once more in 1982. Now, the Raven Theatre Company, known for taking cracks at classics, is doing its own production.
The Raven's version is utter slapstick. Characters speak with Ralph Kramden growls and nasal newsreel voices. Their movements and reactions are exaggerated for comedic effect. When a scene calls for the emotion of surprise, the actors look as if they're trying to pop their eyes out of their sockets. At one point, a character actually runs face first into a door when trying to stop a despondent Felix from going into the bathroom alone.
I assume it was director Michael Menendian's vision to do a live-action cartoon version of The Odd Couple, and unfortunately, the outcome is a terrible miscalculation. The play–which already struggles to connect with an audience who are more surprised to see a marriage last rather than end in divorce—comes off as vapid, void of any real meaning whatsoever. It's like the tragedy that has befallen Felix (Jon Steinhagen) is one big joke. And we get no sense of Oscar's (Eric Roach) own unresolved marital issues except for his messy condo, which is a parallel for his messy life. Instead, Menendian has reduced the story to a one-joke pony that keeps begging to be laughed at. Sure, at first it deserves a chuckle, but by the end it's just kind of desperate.
To their credit the cast is spectacular in their respective roles, even if the final outcome is damaged by misguided direction. Roach toes the line with Oscar, portraying him as a slob but a fun slob. This is a guy who's a borderline hoarder, but he's also a wild and crazy guy.
Steinhagen's portrayal of Felix is a good balance to Oscar's party-animal stereotype. He's reserved, slightly effeminate and deeply emotional–or at least an emotional wreck, which is more than can be said about Oscar who takes a much more cavalier approach to his failed marriage.
In the end, Raven Theatre lost an opportunity to give a fresh take on this well-worn classic. Personally, I would have liked to have seen Menendian take up the task of providing this fairly hollow play with some real emotional depth. Rather than take the easy slapstick route, why not venture on that high road and make the actors bring some realism to their roles? Let's see The Odd Couple as a dark comedy for once. After all, is this not a play about two men whose marriages have fallen apart, whose families have been torn from them due to their own negligence? If it truly is a funny show, the humor should still shine through despite a graver tone.
Still, there will always be an audience for schlock like this. Some people just don't want to see something thought provoking or culturally relevant. Some people just want a show with uncomplicated laughs and a simple plot with characters as three-dimensional as a piece of construction paper. For those people, The Odd Couple will work just fine.
Rating: ★★
Performances continue through July 18: Thursdays – Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm (No show July 4)
Cast: Greg Caldwell, Larry Carani, Brigitte Ditmars, Liz Fletcher, Greg Kolack, Eric Roach, Jon Steinhagen, Anthony Tournis
Creative Team: Michael Menendian (Director), Amy Lee (Light Design), Katherine M. Chavez (Sound Design), Ray Toler (Set Design), JoAnn Montemurro (Costume Design), Cathy Bowren (Stage Manager), Dean LaPrairie (Photographer)
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Keith Ecker, Neil Simon, Raven Theatre | Tagged: Amy Lee, Anthony Tournis, Brigitte Ditmars, Cathy Bowren, Dean LaPrairie, Eric Roach, Greg Caldwell, Greg Kolack, JoAnn Montemurro, Jon Steinhagen, Katherine M. Chavez, Larry Carani, Liz Fletcher, Michael Menendian, Neil Simon, Raven Theatre, Ray Toler, The Odd Couple, The Odd Couple Chicago review, The Odd Couple Raven review |	Leave a comment »
REVIEW: The Analytical Engine (Circle Theatre)
Posted on February 15, 2010 by Scotty Zacher
Steampunk gone silly
Circle Theatre, Forest Park, presents:
The Analytical Engine
By Jon Steinhagen
Directed by Bob Knuth
Through March 28 (more info)
Don't be afraid of the scientific history implied by the title of Circle Theatre's world premiere The Analytical Engine — little math or science actually surfaces. A frivolous, Harlequin romance of a play, The Analytical Engine takes a promising concept, a bluestocking American heroine who has actually built the steam-powered calculating machine that mathematician Charles Babbage only imagined, and utterly trivializes it.
Although he never actually created it, Babbage's machine forms an important basis in the history of computers, due in no small part to the writings of his disciple Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who wrote extensively about how it might be put to use. That's the only piece of scientific background you need.
Set in 1850 Connecticut, Jon Steinhagen's play, which won first prize in the 2009 Julie Harris Playwright Awards, centers on Hippolyta Powell, a mathematically minded young lady who's constructed the huge, clanking computer in her family barn, much to the consternation of her sardonic, novelist sister and dizzy, artistic mother. Having achieved the technological triumph of her era, Hippolyta does not set it to calculating Bernoulli numbers or composing scientific music, uses proposed by Lady Lovelace, who appears in the play as a haughty and curious visitor, but instead feeds it punched cards delineating hundreds of local bachelors with the aim of finding her perfect mate. Love does not enter into her equations.
If you can get past the utter silliness of the concept, Bob Knuth stages the story with great charm on his absolute dream of a Victorian-era drawing room set (though I'm told it's virtually identical to the one the theater used for "Little Women"). Gorgeous period costumes by Elizabeth Wislar add still more eye candy.
The pacing could be zippier, but Patricia Austin bubbles as the bouncy, enthusiastic Hippolyta. Catherine Ferraro is wonderfully arch as her literary sister, Marigold, and Mary Redmon shines as their ditzy but sometimes down-to-earth mother.
Denita Linnertz adds elegance as Lady Lovelace. Eric Lindahl seems a bit miscast — too good-humored and fresh-faced — for the role of Nathaniel Swade, the somewhat shady dandy whose card the Analytical Engine chooses a Hippolyta's top match, while the playwright, Steinhagen, does a perfect job as Eppa Morton, her bumbling teddy bear of a rejected swain.
Yet for all the heft of the never-seen Analytical Engine, this is one fluffy story.
Filed under: 2010 Reviews, Circle Theatre, Leah A. Zeldes, World Premier | Tagged: Ada King, Ada King Lovelace, Bernoulli numbers, Bob Knuth, Catherine Ferraro, Charles Babbage, Circle Theatre, Circle Theatre Forest Park, Denita Linnertz, Elizabeth Wislar, Eric Lindahl, Jon Steinhagen, Julie Harrie Playwrights Award, Mary Redmon, Patricia Austin, The Analytical Engine, The Analytical Engine Chicago review |	1 Comment »
Review: Porchlight's "Miracle on 34th Street"
A Retro Christmas Miracle
Porchlight Music Theatre presents:
Adapted by Patricia DiBenedetto Snyder, Sill Severin and John Vreeke
Story by Valentine Davies
Screenplay by George Seaton
directed by L. Walter Stearns
thru January 3rd, 2010 (ticket info)
Reviewed by K.D. Hopkins
I have to admit to a bit of "Scrooge-ism" when it comes to the holiday season in America. The commercials, the billboards, the store windows dressed in fiberglass snow and plaid carolers when I am still finishing Halloween candy stuffed in the bottom desk drawer- you get the idea. I managed to get into the spirit in spite of myself. I got a visit from a little angel in the form of my niece Alexandria. She is a very precocious seven years old who likes spiders. Porchlight Theatre's publicity for Miracle on 34th Street stated that this was the perfect first theater experience for children and would become a holiday tradition. I am happy to say that the publicity was right.
This production of Miracle on 34th Street is from the Porchlight Music Theatre Company. They are known for classic productions as well as new interpretations of musicals. This is already a classic film and now it has been excellently translated to the stage. The moment that Kris Kringle's sleigh appears on the stage is when the magic begins. A veritable toyland pops out of Santa's big red sack and performs to start the play. We are then told that this Santa is a lucky replacement for the other guy who showed up drunk. The twist is that this Santa believes that he is the real thing. It is a tale that we all know from afternoons around the television or at the repertory movie house.
Christa Buck plays the cynical 1940's career woman Doris Walker. She is all business and doesn't have time for the fantasy that is Christmas. She also has little patience for the complications of romance that shows up in the form of Fred Gailey played by Karl Hamilton. They both seem to have stepped out of a Technicolor production. The entire cast is a step back in time and that is perfect for this production. The cynicism of Doris Walker and her daughter Susan is born out of divorce and abandonment issues. That is my modern interpretation but the portrayals are embodied with the post-war innocence of the 1940's. Somehow everything works out in America if you only believe. It's a beautiful idea whose time is coming around again. The part of Susan Walker is played by Laney Kraus-Taddeo. She is another talented product of the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston. Ms. Kraus-Taddeo doesn't hit any false notes or project any of the treacle that is the risk of any child actors. All of the children in this production are a delight to watch. The play makes room for a child in the audience to talk to Santa on stage. It was a funny moment with an untrained participant who asked for Christmas lipstick. Your guess is as good as mine as to what that is but Jim Sherman as Kris Kringle played right along with jolly humor.
I have to say that it was the performance of Jim Sherman that really put me in the Christmas spirit. He has the sparkle and the charm that – for me – embody Santa Claus. He wears a suit that is more in the tradition of Father Christmas or Sinter Klass from the Netherlands. Even when he was clad in layperson's attire he looked like Santa. I also enjoyed the character of Mr. Macy played by Chuck Sisson. I'm a girl who grew up on Mr. Drysdale, Mr. Mooney, and Thurston Howell III. There is a certain carriage and technique to carrying off the bluster of such a character in my opinion and Mr. Sisson has it much to my enjoyment.
The entire cast is a joy to watch in Miracle on 34th Street. The supporting villain character of Mr. Sawyer is played with relish by Rus Rainear. Like the movie, Mr. Sawyer is a ferret-like guy who almost kills Christmas while in cahoots with the ambitious District Attorney played by Steve Tomlitz.
Suspense! Romance! Knee Slapping Laughs! It was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Most importantly, it passed the "Alexandria Test". My niece Alexandria was enchanted the moment the action began. That is saying something considering that we had been to Uncle Fun and bought a "can of salted nuts" which contained three fake snakes. Lexie was all about the snakes until Kris Kringle and the music began. She also got to take a picture with Santa on the stage after the play that was a big thrill. "Auntie Kathy! I got to see Santa Claus and be on the stage!"
You have to bring your own camera and resist the urge to want to sit on Jim Sherman's lap yourself. I'm telling you, the guy took me back to 1965 when I really believed.
Filed under: 2009 Reviews, Holiday Show, Piven Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre | Tagged: Brenda Didier, Christa Buck, Christa Buck Van Ernen, Chuck Sisson, Eugene Dizon, George Seaton, Ian Zywica, James Nedrud, Jana Anderson, Jim Heatherly, Jim Sherman, John Vreeke, Jon Steinhagen, K.D. Hopkins, Karl Hamilton, L. Walter Stearns, Laney Kraus-Taddeo, Liviu Pasare, Patricia DeBenedetto Snyder, Piven Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago, Rus Rainear, Sill Severin, Steve Tomlitz, Valentine Davies |	2 Comments »

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Autobiography – Sir Alexander Fleming Essay
On a farm in Scotland on August 6, 1881, an amazing person was born. This amazing person was Alexander Fleming. As a boy he roamed the countryside with his 8 siblings who lived with him in a desolate area of Scotland. The Fleming children had a love for the flora, fauna and merry weather that surrounded their farm for miles. Fleming won a scholarship to St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He went on and passed exams and completed his medical training at the Royal College of Surgeons in England.
In that same year he published a paper on a field he would excel with in the future, immunology. He also wrote more papers on immunology and chemotherapy and original descriptions of lysozyme and penicillin. Over the next few years he worked in a laboratory of the Royal Army Medical Corps as a doctor in World War I. He saved many lives with his discoveries. While doing further research, Fleming accidentally made a huge discovery.
In his cluttered lab, he saw that in a contaminated lab culture a common mold, like that found on stale bread, was growing The staph bacteria in the contaminated dishes had been killed around the mold. He called this mold penicillin. Today penicillin is used to treat all kinds of bacterial infections. Fleming received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1945, which he shared with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain who finished Fleming's work. He was knighted in 1944. Sir Alexander Fleming died on March 11th in 1955
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Pavel Klinichev
Pavel Klinichev graduated from the Moscow State Conservatoire (choral, opera and symphony conducting). In 1999, while still a student, he became a trainee conductor with the Bolshoi Theatre. Since 2009, he has been an associate professor of the Moscow Conservatoire. In 2001, after the Bolshoi Symphony Tour to the USA, Gennady Rozhdestvensky offered Pavel Klinichev to become a conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre. Under the baton of Pavel Klinichev, Rimsky-Korsakov's Snow Maiden, Tsar's Bride, and Golden Cockerel, Borodin's Prince Igor, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Iolanta, Verdi's La traviata, Puccini's La Bohème and Tosca, and Prokofiev's Fiery Angel were performed at the Bolshoi. Klinichev's répertoire also includes Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and Nutcracker, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Ivan the Terrible, Glazunov's Raymonda, Shostakovich's Golden Age, Bolt, and Bright Stream, and the majority of the Bolshoi ballet productions set to music by Georges Bizet, Igor Stravinsky, Ludwig van Beethoven, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and others. Pavel Klinichev was the musical director of 12 ballet productions realized by the Bolshoi Theatre, among them being Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps and Symphony of Psalms, Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Henze's Ondine, and Shostakovich's Golden Age.
With the Bolshoi Ballet, Opera, and Orchestra, he appeared at La Scala, Metropolitan-opera, Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Kennedy Center, Paris National Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, and the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing. During the Bolshoi tours, he has collaborated with the orchestras of the Bavarian Opera, Turin Royal Theatre, Parma Royal Theatre, Kennedy Center, Colonne Orchestra, and many others. He has performed with the Orchestra of the National Academy of St Cecilia, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Academy of the West, and the academic orchestras of St Petersburg, Saratov, and Rostov-on-Don. In 2004–2008, he has collaborated with Elena Obraztsova and her Competition Among Young Opera Singers. In seasons 2005/2007, he was the principal guest conductor of the Universal Ballet Company (South Korea).
In 2005–2015, he was the principal conductor of the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. There, he was the musical director of Rimsky-Korsakov's Tsar's Bride, Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, Rossini's Le comte Ory, Verdi's Othello and Rigoletto, Donizetti's Amore Buffo, and Colordelic set to music by Tchaikovsky, Pärt, Poulenc, and others. Almost every production realized under the baton of Klinichev at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre has been nominated for the Golden Mask Russian Highest Theatre Award.
In 2014, Pavel Klinichev received a Golden Mask as the Best Ballet Conductor for the production Cantus Arcticus set to music by Rautavaara. In 2015, he received the same award for Colordelic. For season 2015/2016, he is currently nominated for three productions: Romeo and Juliet at the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ondine and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Pavel Klinichev released several records, among them being a CD with the Bolshoi Chamber Orchestra (Universal Music Group) and the DVD of Spartacus performed by the Bolshoi Ballet and Colonne Orchestra (Decca, Paris).
Since season 2014/2015, he has been a guest conductor of the Mikhailovsky Theatre.


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Casting has today been announced on new Channel 4 comedy, Derry Girls. Currently filming on location in Northern Ireland, the brand new series is written by acclaimed Northern Ireland writer Lisa McGee (Indian Summers, London Irish, Being Human) who has mined her own experiences to create a candid, one-of-a-kind, family-centred comedy set against the spectre of The Troubles.
The six-part series is directed by Northern Ireland's Michael Lennox (Boogaloo & Graham, A Patch of Fog) and has received funding from Northern Ireland Screen via Invest NI.
The bane of Erin's existence is her 15-year-old cousin Orla McCool (Louisa Harland) who lives next door with her ditzy mother Sarah (Kathy Kiera Clarke). Whimsical, unpredictable Orla orbits her own planet and thinks nothing of reading her cousin's diary or borrowing her knickers. Equally responsible for Erin's inability to better herself are her two best friends – Clare Devlin (Nicola Coughlan), clever, ambitious and, when faced with Sister Michael, an enthusiastic grass, and Michelle Mallon (Jamie-Lee O'Donnell), mouthy, man-hungry and unashamedly offensive. Last and, as far as the girls are concerned, very much least, is Michelle's cousin James (Dylan Llewellyn) – "The English Fella"- who's just moved to Derry and is the ultimate outsider. Amid concerns that his English accent may cause trouble for him at the boys' school, James is forced to attend the all-girl Our Lady Immaculate College. But as he quickly discovers, the boys' school would have been a much easier ride.
Warm, funny and honest, Derry Girls takes a look at the everyday lives of ordinary people living in extraordinary times.
Commissioning Editors for Channel 4 Comedy are Head of Comedy Fiona McDermott and Commissioning Editor Jack Bayles. The series is written by Lisa McGee, Executive Produced by Caroline Leddy (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner, London Irish), Liz Lewin (London Irish, Crashing, My Mad Fat Diary) and Jimmy Mulville. Produced by Catherine Gosling Fuller and directed by Michael Lennox Derry Girls is a commission for Hatrick Productions and is a showcase of creative talent from Northern Ireland, entirely set and made locally.


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Lefty's Live Music
About Lefty's
SAY WHAT! Poetry
Every First Thursday 9pm
Say What! Poetry – has been a staple in Des Moines for over 14 years. Giving the stage to the voices we need to hear the most! Lenny Bell and crew have cultivated a much needed platform for artists of all walks of life. Many things have come and gone in Des Moines, but Say What! is bigger and better than ever.
$5 Cover
9pm Doors
In February we will be hosting Say What! every First Thursday of the month.
From Lenny: New Year, New Location, New Date and Time!
Happy 2018!!!! With the New Year comes new opportunities for each and all!
By now many of you have realized that the Streetcar 209 is no more which closes a very long chapter in the life of Say What! Poetry in Des Moines. From the bottom of my heart, I'd like to thank the owners, JC and Nancy, for their commitment and faith in Say What! Poetry over the last almost 14 years. I also say thanks for the friendship and I look forward to seeing what lies ahead for us all on this life journey.
I have to admit that I'd be lying if I said I was stressing about what to do next with the open mic. If we never had another show, I really would be okay with that. 14 years is a very long time. It is also a testament to the resolve of a community no one thought would be interested in poetry this long. You all are appreciated.
Well, I've done my soul searching and have come to grips with the fact that the community isn't ready Say What! Poetry go…*%#* LOL 😂With that being said, Say What! Poetry will continue on at Lefty's on University beginning January 11th. Thanks to Anne who is co-owner of Lefty's and also a long time supporter of Say What! Poetry. I'm so looking forward to our next chapter…And The Next Poet.
Join us as we get it on once more! With me, Lenny as your host and DJ Hollywood on deck, we gone represent. Doors open at nine. Cover $5 at the door. See you there.
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Hughes launches new HTS capacity for South America
in News, Satellite/Comms
The 15-year agreement with Telesat for the Ka-band capacity will extend connectivity to more than 90% of people in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The Telstar 19V was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Hughes has announced the successful launch of its Hughes 63W Ka-band hosted payload on the Telstar 19 VANTAGE (Telstar 19V) satellite.
With this new High-Throughput Satellite (HTS) capacity over South America, Hughes will offer HughesNet broadband services to businesses and residences, managed network services to enterprises, cellular backhaul to mobile network operators and community Wi-Fi solutions to enable governments to bridge the digital divide.
Built by Space Systems Loral (SSL) for Telesat, a global satellite operator, the Telstar 19V was launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Pradman Kaul, President and CEO of Hughes, said: ?With the launch of Hughes 63W, Hughes reaffirms its commitment to powering a connected future for people and businesses in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
?To enable this HTS capacity, we are also opening new gateways in Brazil and Chile, which will complement our five Jupiter System gateways in the U.S. in meeting the increasing demand for connectivity across the Americas.?
Hughes will deploy its next-generation Jupiter System technology for the ground system and customer premises equipment to deliver broadband services on Hughes 63W. The Jupiter System supports a wide range of applications including consumer and small- and medium-sized business (SMB) broadband internet service, community Wi-Fi, cellular backhaul, managed network services and mobility, including aeronautical services.
Hughes 63W brings substantial capacity to five countries in Latin America, reaching more than 90% of people in Chile, Ecuador and Peru. In Brazil, where HughesNet satellite Internet service is already available via Hughes 65W capacity, the new payload will complement the existing service and offer connectivity to more than 90% of Brazilians. In Colombia, the new Hughes 63W capacity will enhance the broadband connectivity provided via the company?s Jupiter 2 satellite to reach more than 96% of Colombians.
Services on Hughes 63W are expected to begin in early fourth quarter 2018, after Telesat and SSL complete orbit-raising and in-orbit testing of Telstar 19V.
Tags: ka-bandhughes
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EchoStar and Maxar amend agreement for Hughes Jupiter 3 satellite production
Gilat secures $10m to power IFC applications
Gilat bags $8m follow-on order for support of LEO constellation
Es'hailSat's blueprint for Qatar's space future


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Q: How to take back resizing of VM instance on Google Cloud Platform? I resized VM instance on Google Cloud Platform and now it is displayed wrongly, custom styling is gone, products are gone - how I can revert it to the state before resizing?

A: Assuming you have a snapshot or image of your original VM,

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*Create a new instance from your snapshot or image.

*Keep the same size of the disk same as of the original VM.

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Individually crafted of kiln fired and glazed ceramic, this cute dish is not only a charming way to keep messy spoons and utensils off your appliances it is great for holding soaps, jewelry, keys and, little trinkets. But best of all, it's purrfect for serving kitties their kibbles and treats!
Sorry, jelly beans not included (I needed a sugar fix).


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Q: enforce child to have static variable I want to enforce child to have a static variable.
why static? those variables has no relationship with the instance itself.
why not via static method? it's seems less readable that I need to call function to obtain those variable.
why not use property? same answer as the first answer.
why I want to enforce child? I want to maintain few classes with the same template.
So I'm actually need something like this:
class Child1(Father):
      static_variable_for_class = "static_variable_for_class"

class Father(ABC):
      #here i validate Child1 declare static_variable_for_class