Movies and Icons, a dance show celebrating our favorite movies and movie stars, was held at the Centro Para La Cultura y Las Artes de Ribera, also known as the Auditorium, for three performances on March 14, 15, and 16, 2025. Only now are the dancers and singers of the show recovering, weeks after the […]
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Interview with Ruth Kear, Set Designer How did you become a set designer for our Lakeside Little Theatre? My journey to becoming a set designer began in the 1960s at the University of Illinois. It was an exciting time for theater majors because small theater companies were popping up everywhere in Chicago, presenting nontraditional and
As I mentioned in my previous article, when I introduced my good friend Carol Gremil to our Lakeside community, so many of us are writers, accountants, artists, teachers, forensic scientists, retirees, etc., all of whom dance. I had the great pleasure of meeting and talking with a retiree who dances, Phyl Gaskell. She is the
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Allow me to introduce my great friend and former associate Carol Gremli. It is she who has written the article that accompanies this introduction. Carol writes…… “After a career in performing, then teaching, then directing and choreographing, I enjoy full-time freedom here in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Here, the music, the theater, and the dance, be it
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Time flies by and nothing seems to happen and then suddenly everything seems to happen at once. Mid-December I received a late afternoon call from a friend asking me to be her guest, that same Friday night, at the opening night of It’s a Wonderful Life, A Live Radio Play at Lakeside Little Theatre. I
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Chapala resident since 2018. Many readers will remember Barry Michael Neil from his convincing performance as Oscar in Lakeside Little Theatre’s Musical of 2019 Sweet Charity. As he had never acted on stage, this performance was a remarkable achievement. Having said that, Barry was no stranger to public performance, but his performances were on Radio!
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Helen Gallegher shares the delightful performance of the Lake Chapala Orchestra and their Standing Ovation under the watchful eyes of conductor Harry Reason.
I was born and brought up in Kenya, East Africa. If anyone had told me, all those years ago that, “You are going to be an arts editor of a magazine in Mexico, Helen,” I would have laughed and said, “Impossible!” I have been proven wrong, and now I, Helen Gallagher, have been asked by
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