Professional staging of famous musical “Cats” by Mexico City promoter Gerardo Quiroz, who waited six years to obtain the rights to the work. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the tome “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot.

A brand new art space near Americas and La Paz in Guadalajara has opened in a vintage home designed by luminary architect Luis Barragán in 1929. Travesía Cuatro, as the gallery is called, has roots in Madrid, yet the owners have chosen for its first event three Guadalajara conceptual artists whose pieces do not appear commercially oriented. 

Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra director Hector Guzman (above) takes up the baton and Claire Wells is the invited violinist at two end-of-year concerts at the Degollado. Among works, or fragments from works, on the program are Beethoven’s “Turkish March” from the “The Ruins of Athens” and “Violin Romance No. 2 in F Major,” Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Festival Overture,” Antonin Dvorak’s “Carnival Overture,” Tchiakovsky’s “Swan Lake,” Héctor Berlioz’s “Rákóczi March” and music by John Williams,from the “Harry Potter” movies.

Carlos Santana is not only a household name in Jalisco, but also with the many expats who attended the sold-out performance at the VFG Arena on Saturday, December 14.

The 2013 performance in Teatro Degollado of Tchaikovsky’s famous “El Cascanueces” marks a milestone in Guadalajara’s artistic history, says Dariusz Blajer, the new director of the state’s reconstituted professional dance company, the Joven Ballet de Jalisco (Young Ballet of Jalisco) .

Ballet de Camara de Jalisco, one of Jalisco’s best-known amateur ballet troupes directed by Lucy Arce, presents its acclaimed annual seasonal show, El Espiritu de la Navidad.