Arts & Entertainment

Lakeside Little Theatre audiences will be thrilled with “Betrayal,” undoubtedly one of English playwright Harold Pinter’s major dramas. Thanks to the creativity and unerring eye for detail of director Neal Checkoway, revolutionary technical innovations have demonstrably enhanced this production.

Showstoppers 9 certainly lived up to its name last Sunday, when 230 people squeezed into St. Andrew’s Anglican Church for the annual fundraiser for Los Cantantes del Lago.

The Lake Chapala Society (LCS) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Children’s Art Program (CAP) with the October 25 opening of a retrospective show tracing the history of the free workshops that helped forge successive generations of lakeside’s native artists.

When Neal Checkoway, director of Lakeside Little Theatre’s upcoming show “Betrayal” by Harold Pinter, found himself facing the nightmarish challenge of nine complete set changes in a two-act play, he realized there was only one solution. He needed a revolving stage and he knew just the man to design and build it.

As final planning details for the 13th annual Feria Maestros del Arte start to gel, event founder Marianne Carlson is pleased to report exciting news that the Chiapas Council of Culture and Arts is coming through with bus transport to bring 20 craftsmen from isolated rural villages to show their unique wares at the three-day fair.

Most north shore residents will admit that they only pass along Lake Chapala’s southern shore on a visit to Mazamitla.  Rarely do they take the time to stop off in any of the small fishing or agricultural villages that edge the lake across from the expat enclaves of in Ajijic and Chapala