Michael Adams News

Opera is for everyone-and so is Seattle Opera's 2017/18 season! There's a new bilingual performance for elementary-school students, new performance venues such as Georgetown Steam Plant, a new mainstage collaboration with ACT Theatre and Seattle Symphony leaders, and even an outdoor performance offered free of charge. Regardless of background or socioeconomic status, this season offers ways for a broad audience to be able to experience opera; it's an open invitation for the Pacific Northwest. 

The Attacca Quartet has announced Recently Added, a new series exploring the string quartet works of contemporary composers.

Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced a change to its 2016-2017 season programming: Don Giovanni in Concert will replace the previously scheduled Stars of Tomorrow concert on Friday, March 17, 2017 in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Instead of a traditional showcase featuring arias and scenes from different operas, members of the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program will now present a semi-staged concert performance of Mozart's timeless drama, with the WNO Orchestra conducted by Michael Christie and featuring direction by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello.

Prior to joining JQH, Adams served as resort general manager at the Isleta Resort Casino, where he was responsible for 200 associates and a property renovation. His career also includes director of sales and marketing positions in New Mexico with Hilton Hotel, Fairfield Inn by Marriott, Residence Inn and Courtyard by Marriott branded properties. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico. In his spare time, Adams serves as a ring announcer for boxing and Mixed Martial Arts events throughout the United States, and he is the recipient of the accolade for Best Play-by-Play Announcer in the New Mexico Broadcasters Association in the metro market for New Mexico.

Multiple Grammy- and Gospel Music Association Dove Award-winning musicians Yolanda Adams and Michael W. Smith are set to appear in THE PASSION, the two-hour epic musical event airing LIVE from New Orleans

Based on one of the most popular and best-loved Christmas films of all time, classic musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET will play at the King's Theatre Glasgow from Thursday 19 to Saturday 21 November as part of a UK Tour this Christmas. On sale now.

Based on one of the most popular and best-loved Christmas films of all time, classic musical MIRACLE ON 34th STREET will return for a third UK Tour, opening at Croydon's Fairfield Halls on Thursday 29 October 2015.

Theater and Harlem luminaries converged on the Apollo Theater Soundstage on Monday to mark the 15th anniversary of The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) (Ty Jones, Producing Artistic Director; David Roberts, Managing Director). Hosted by actor Leslie Odom, Jr. (Hamilton, Law & Order: SVU, Person of Interest andSmash), CTH's 15th Anniversary Celebration and Benefit Concert featured the New York premiere of songs from the eagerly anticipated off-Broadway musical Witness Ugandaby Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews. Scroll down for photos!

Working hard, playing hard, living 'la vida loca'. What's wrong with that? Absolutely nothing, except for the fact that, according to Ramakant Maharaj, this life is a long dream, and the one who is living it, is also a dream. One big illusion! 'Know thyself,' exhorts the Guru/Master. 'Wake up and uncover your power! Find out who you really are, while you still can. Prior to beingness, you were nameless, formless, and wanted for nothing. Beingness is intolerable, and that is why you need constant escape and comfort: chocolate, ice-cream, therapy, selfies, holidays, living the 'dream', relationships, weddings, babies, etc, etc.' The Guru speaks with extraordinary power, from the 'bottomless bottom of reality'. 'The Guru is not a person, he is the Impersonal, Unmanifest Absolute in manifest form,' explains Maharaj. His talks are rare, spontaneous, direct knowledge, (non-intellectual), and penetrating: 'You are covered with ash, the ash of illusory concepts. Master removes the ash. You are not the body. The body is not your identity. You are unborn. The world is the spontaneous projection of your spontaneous presence.' Michael Adams recently had a sneak preview of Selfless Self which the Master describes as 'Your Story'. 'I've never read a book like this before,' he said, 'and I've read a lot of these 'Mind-Body-Soul' publications. The Master states that there is no mind, no body and no individual soul! And no past, no future and no present either! So, that's novel! Reality has nothing to do with all of this. It is 'beyond words, beyond worlds'.' The Guru never tires of hammering the listener with reality: 'This is not just an idea, it is Truth, and not up for debate. I am not just narrating nice bed-time stories, or feelgood stories for you, I am narrating your story, your Reality.' 'Why travel, when you are the destination?' and 'You have read all the books, but have you read the reader?' are a couple of examples of fresh teachings that have the power to awaken the reader. The cover blurb reads: 'Selfless Self is your very own portable Guru.' For Mike, it has become his inseparable companion, like a living, talking friend. 'Selfless Self is logical, humorous, deep, yet simple to understand. This cutting-edge book, a manifestation of the unmanifest, has given me a jolt, and shaken me out of my stupor! At 555 pages, it is a treasure chest of golden nuggets and sparkling gems that will transform the reader right down to his very core. It is more than a book, more than a song. This 'final edition' is your story, a homage to 'Selfless Self', which is in fact, your very essence.' 'Selfless Self: Talks with Shri Ramakant Maharaj', (edited by Ann Shaw), will be available early April from Amazon, Watkins, and other stores. See www.ramakantmaharaj.net for details. Mike Adams www.ramakantmaharaj.net www.selfless-self.com

The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH) announces plans for its landmark 2015 season. The Harlem-based American theatre company will present its 15th Anniversary Celebration and Benefit Concert this spring, featuring songs from the eagerly anticipated musical Witness Uganda, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 2014 Richard Rodgers Production Award for Musical Theater; a free summer production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest; and the winter holiday world premiere of a new CTH-commissioned musical, The First Noel.

?On Sunday, January 11, Opera Index will present its 36th Distinguished Achievement Award to Susan Graham, one today's foremost opera stars, at its winter gala in the Grand Salon of the JW Marriott Essex House, 160 Central Park South, beginning at 6 p.m. with a reception at the Petit Salon. Presenting Ms. Graham with this year's award will be the revered American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, a previous Distinguished Achievement Award-winner.

Gary Naylor sees a short, sharp, sweet play that has echoes of Christmas classics, but retains its own sense of the festive season in the Big Apple.

Which department of the Starship Enterprise wears Yellow? Which of Batman's sidekicks lived the longest? Who participated in the Battle of Five Armies? These are just a few of the questions Geek Cred will use to determine who's the Biggest Nerd on the Seacoast. The one-time game show will take place at the Seacoast Rep tonight, November 15.

Which department of the Starship Enterprise wears Yellow? Which of Batman's sidekicks lived the longest? Who participated in the Battle of Five Armies? These are just a few of the questions Geek Cred will use to determine who's the Biggest Nerd on the Seacoast. The one-time game show will take place at the Seacoast Rep on Saturday November 15.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts kicks off its 2014 summer opera productions.

The University of Washington School of Drama showcases the work of first year students in their Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) in the final show of their 2013-2014 season. Jean-Claude Grumberg's The Workroom is a stunning portrait of two male and six female laborers surviving in Paris after World War II. This challenging play presents the PATP students with an opportunity to broaden their dramatic acting skills as they relay the emotional story of eight survivors desperately trying to sew together the fragments of their severed post-war lives.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announces its 2014 summer opera productions.

Ghenady Meirson brings a condensed but not lacking production of Tchaikowsky's moody, Pushkin-inspired thriller to the AVA stage.

RAGING SQUID INK and ERIC SCHMALENBERGER are thrilled to celebrate Friday the 13th by introducing the terrifyingly awesome celebrity guest artists performing the role of SHAMAN in Jake Thomas' horror experience THE DEAD DREAM MACHINE, video art by Sean Gill and directed and choreographed by Around the World in 80 Days' Rachel Klein, who has been called 'clever' by the New York Post, 'inventive' by Theatermania, and 'a new generation's Julie Taymor' by Woman Around Town. In the final scene each night, the SHAMAN with sing a gothed out orchestral version of Nick Cave's 'There is a Kingdom.'

RAGING SQUID INK and ERIC SCHMALENBERGER are thrilled to celebrate Friday the 13th by introducing the terrifyingly awesome celebrity guest artists performing the role of SHAMAN in Jake Thomas' horror experience THE DEAD DREAM MACHINE, video art by Sean Gill and directed and choreographed by Around the World in 80 Days' Rachel Klein, who has been called 'clever' by the New York Post, 'inventive' by Theatermania, and 'a new generation's Julie Taymor' by Woman Around Town. In the final scene each night, the SHAMAN with sing a gothed out orchestral version of Nick Cave's 'There is a Kingdom.'