Theater
Lakeside Little Theatre will stage Florian Zeller’s “The Father,” January 16 through 25.
LLT describes the mystery as “… almost a thriller … that makes your brain hum with the potential of theater.”
Director Neal Checkoway commented that the play’s deliberately contradictory subtitle, “A Tragic Farce,” reveals much about the work’s complexity. “It is exactly that tension between humor and sorrow, certainty and confusion that gives the play its unique perspective and power. It’s a world where emotion, disorientation and mystery exist side by side.”
Checkoway directs Rebecca Byberg, Chris Van Vliet, Ilana Spector, Dave McIntosh, M.A. Bruneau and Mark Nichols.
Matinees (Saturdays, Sundays and Tuesdays) are at 4 p.m., evening shows at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, 400 pesos, are available at lakesidelittletheatre.com and before the shows at the box office. Patrons with a Mexican INE will receive a discount at the box office or by making a reservation via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Art shows
• The Artists of Lake Chapala will display and show their original art at the Artisan Art Show on Saturday, January 17, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cultural Center located on the Carretera in La Floresta. Free entrance.
• Silvia Murillo holds an exhibition of her sculptures, Saturday, January 17, 5 p.m. at the Garden of Dreams Boutique Hotel, Constitucion 105, Ajijic. See more at silviamurilloescultora.com.
• Karen Spencer’s exhibit of many of her iconic photo images of Mexico (above: “Green Stairs”), “Colors for Armando,” opens Friday, January 16, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the newly opened Armando’s Legacy restaurant. Karen encourages you to stay for dinner with a limited menu after the opening reception or make reservations for a future date. 333-029-7335.
Art classes
• At Diane Pearl Gallery, Santa Margarita 23 in Riberas del Pilar, art classes are abundant: Zoe’s sketching classs is Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Charlsie’s paper maché classes are on Wednesdays; Jose and Ana from Mata Ortiz will give pottery classes January 20 to 23 and Macario Covarrubias will give pottery classes for 5 days: February 2,3, 9, 10 and 13.
• Over the next three months, Efren Gonzalez is holding four-day oil and watercolor painting workshops in Ajijic, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Melaque and La Manzanilla.
To find out more and register, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call him at 331-703-3942.
Exhibits
• “El Vapor Libertad,” a pictorial exhibition by Luci Williams, opens Friday, January 16, 5 p.m. at the Centro para la Cultura y las Artes de la Ribera. The art, both paintings and sculpture, interprets the history of the emblematic steamboat that plied Lake Chapala at the end of the 19th century.
• RI (Real Intelligence), an exhibition of paintings by Neal S. Willow, opens Friday, January 16, 3 to 6 p.m., at La Estacion, Hidalgo 75 in Riberas del Pilar. The exhibition closes on February 11.
• Galeria La Manzanilla on the Costalegre opens an exhibit by Alvaro Chavarin, Friday, January 16, 4 to 7 p.m. See artinmexico.com for more information.
• In celebration of her birthday, a retrospective show of the work of Pat Apt opens Saturday, January 24, 3 p.m. at the Ajijic Museo de Arte.
• Sculptor Francisco Quiroz Carranza, the founder and general director of Art21Studio, presents an exhibition of his private collection during January and February at Casa Del Sol, Javier Mina 7.
• The Lake Chapala Fine Artists Guild’s group exhibition, currently up at the Sol y Luna Hotel Spa (Rio Bravo 10 in West Ajijic), will continue until Wednesday, February 4. Two live painting demonstrations will be held during the run of the exhibition: Oscar Orlando Ibarra will undertake a live oil painting demo on Saturday, January 24, from 4 to 7 p.m., and Ricardo Sánchez Corona a live watercolor demonstration on Saturday, January 31, from 3 to 7 p.m. You can preview the art displayed in this exhibition on the Guild’s website at FineArtChapala.com.
Live Music
FRIDAY
• “A Carole King Musical Tribute: Her Music, Her Story, Her Life” will take the stage at The BRAVO! Friday to Sunday, January 16 to 18. Created and headlined by singer-songwriter Susanne Sims, and joined by vocalists Rev. Johannys Jimenéz-Hartog and Wanda White, and musicians Gilberto Rios, Eleazar Soto and Israel Angulo. All shows are at 4 p.m. Tickets are 400 pesos. Reserve at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., in person at It’s Kinda Bazar … And Kinda Not!, or online at thebravo.org.
• Old Souls Band plays Scallion Ajijic Bistro, 6:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
• Pianist Cesar Castro and aritone Carlos Lopez perform opera and more, 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, San Lucas 19 in Riberas del Pilar. Tickets, 400 pesos, available via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
• The Ranch Orquesta, directed by Rodrigo Ibarra Michel, performs a fusion of jazz, mariachi, and symphony through a one-of-a-kind instrumental concept at the Centro Cultural Gonzalez Gallo, 12:30 p.m. Free entry.
• The Derrieres with special guest Baquero Jimmy on the fiddle, play La Bodega, 5 to 7 p.m.
COMING SOON
• Live Hot Jazz Quintet offers a tribute to Django Reinhardt, Thursday, January 22, 6 p.m. at Cola de Gallo, Hidalgo 17 in Ajijic. Cover 200 pesos. Reservations: 322-191-1309
• The Escarabajo Blues Band will perform at the Garden of Dreams Boutique Hotel, Constitucion 105, Ajijic, Friday, January 23. Tickets are 250 pesos early bird, 400 pesos at the door.
• Mau Jimenez brings his “Who’s The Boss” Bruce Springsteen tribute to Steve Balfour’s Concerts in the Park series at the Lake Chapala Society, Sunday, January 25, 5 p.m. Tickets available at the LCS office Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• The Rooftop Romeos will perform Fab Four music Monday and Tuesday, January 26 and 27, at El Bar Co’s rooftop deck.
Doors open at 2 p.m., concerts begin at 3 p.m. The fundraisers benefit Niños Incapacitados. To purchase tickets, 500 pesos (which must be purchased in advance), see programaninos.com. Drawing prizes include “Made in Liverpool” T-shirts purchased directly from Liverpool’s famed Cavern Club, where the group first played together as “The Beatles” on February 9, 1961.
• The Lake Chapala Orchestra (LCO) presents Symphonic Passion, Saturday, January 31, 2 p.m., featuring Jean Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, a piece renowned for its icy beauty, soaring melodies and virtuosic demands. Soloist Brenda Galvan, principal second violin of the LCO, steps into the spotlight to deliver one of the most beloved concertos in the violin repertoire.
The orchestra will also perform Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. 1, a triumphant masterpiece.
The concert takes place at the Robert Kleffel Auditorium, in the Instituto Tecnologico de Chapala, Libramiento Chapala 200. Tickets, 400 pesos, can be reserved by email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..">This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..