The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
The highlight of the presentation of four films screened at Lakeside this week as part of the Guadalajara Film Festival’s DocumentArte program was the surprise news of plans to open a local film school in the near future.
With an incredibly powerful vocal range, wide-ranging repertoire, dynamic stage presence and great sense of humor, the fabulous Kim Kuzma always puts on one amazing show!
Local sculptor Miguel Miramontes, one of Mexico’s foremost artists, has offered one of his recent works to the Ajijic Cultural Center.
The Orquesta Tipica de Chapala is scheduled for a one-night dinner show entitled Añoranza Mexicana (Mexican Nostalgia) on Wednesday, March 13, 7 p.m., at La Bodega de Ajijic Restaurant. The program will feature an unplugged repertoire of classic tunes and rhythms from different regions of the country.
Can there be too much fun? Nope! And the director, cast and crew of Lakeside Little Theatre’s recent staging of “The Drowsy Chaperone” proved it.
Velvet-voiced and amazingly versatile, Jorge Acosta has a huge following at his weekly shows at The Palm — El Piano Rojo’s sister club in Puerto Vallarta — where he often introduces new talent to the room. And since he presented Polish soprano Beata Stankiewicz a few weeks ago, folks just can’t get enough of her angelic powerhouse voice.
The all-time longest running off-Broadway musical, “The Fantasticks,” is set to be revived again in Ajijic, directed by a veteran of the San Francisco production and featuring the same trio of local, young singers-actors who, as the show’s producer Jayme Littlejohn says, “enchanted” Lakeside audiences last fall.
