The Russian State Ballet Mari El was welcomed  Friday, November 11 at the Auditorio de la Ribera with its interpretation of the classic Tchaikovsky suite and ballet, “The Nutcracker.”  This troupe of young dancers is part of the Opera and Ballet Theater Sapaev and an obvious training ground for the more ambitious and polished Bolshoi.

Entertainment will abound at the 10th Annual Feria Maestros del Arte running Friday November 18 through Sunday, November 20 at the Chapala Club de Yates (near the fish restaurants in Chapala).

Though it reportedly evolved through several adaptations, “No Clue, The Stage Play” showing at Lakeside Little Theatre from November 5 to 15, seems to have returned to its roots. The stylized acting, the color-coded characters and the bodies stacked like cordwood behind the library couch put one exactly in mind of the old board game Clue.

The seventh annual Tercer Milenio International Film Festival (FIC-TM) returns to the Lake Chapala region this year with an expanded program of activities that will run from Friday, November 11 through Monday, November 21 at four venues.

“I always knew that I could sing in a high register when I wanted to because I used to mimic my soprano sister,” says Guadalajara-born counter tenor Santiago Cumplido del Castillo, who takes the stage at Auditorio de la Ribera del Lago in “The Tribute to Farinelli” on November 19. (Counter tenors sing in a typically female soprano range.)

Veteran director Roseann Wilshere has put her own abilities of artistic improvisation to work on what she refers to as “an adaptation of a screenplay, adapted from the board game and adapted from the classic film “Murder by Death” adapted from “Ten Little Indians” by Agatha Christie.