Karrie and Ken Sebryk of Pen and Inc Entertainment have announced the start of a new amateur theater in Puerto Vallarta, located at Cathy Von Rohr’s Studio at Manuel M. Dieguez 321, off Constitution. According to a press release, the intimate 50-seat theater will “allow locals to become more involved in the performing arts and enable greater interaction between the audience and actors.”

Upcoming shows include comedies, musicals and dramas. Tickets will cost 200 pesos and shows will run from November to April, with three or four shows per week.

Wine and beer will be available before the shows and during intermission, the press release notes.

Actors, singers, dancers, musicians and technicians interested in participating are encouraged to contact the theater.

For more information go to www.penandinc.ca

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

• Always Patsy Cline, by Sandi Lee
• Robin Hood the Musical by Karrie Sebryk
• This Thing Called Love by Sharon B. White
• Sol’s “Broadway Surprise”
• Hay Fever by Noel Coward
• Smokey Bill’s Cabaret by Karrie & Sharon
• Evening of Great Broadway Tunes by Dana and Mark
• holly Christmas Spectacular, with lots of talent holly

CONTACT:

• Tel: 044 322 728 6878
• email: btInfo @ penandinc.ca
• Address: 321 Manuel M. Dieguez, Old Town

Entre Pancho Villa y La Mujer Desnuda

by Alex Gomez

If you want to do something cultural this month, check out Entre Pancho Villa y La Mujer Desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and the Naked Woman) at the Cecatur Auditorium, located at the corner of Zaragoza and Matamoros, near the Main Plaza in downtown Puerto Vallarta, on June 12, 14, 17, 19, 21, 24 and 26th at 8:30 pm.

Entre Pancho Villa y La Mujer Desnuda is directed by Israel Ortiz, who directed last year’s production of El Diario de Anna Frank, which many foreigners attended and enjoyed, so you don’t need to be fluent in Spanish to understand this play.

Tickets cost just $80 pesos and are on sale now at the SETAC Community Center. 50% of all tickets sold at the GLBT Center will be donated to SETAC, a charitable organization working for the well being and rights of the GLBT community in Vallarta. (322) 224-1974

Open from Monday to Friday 10 am to 8 pm; Saturday 10 am to 2 pm, SETAC is located at Constitución #427 on the corner of Manuel M. Dieguez on the south side of Puerto Vallarta.

Click HERE to learn more about Centro Comunitario SETAC-GLBT.

Recuerdos del Paraíso, Memories of Paradise, a play, will take place every Saturday and Sunday of April at the Cuale Cultural Center Auditorium at 8 pm. In Spanish.

The entrance will cost 80 pesos.

In this story Carmen and Antonia will unveil their memories and surface landscapes and faces of other times as they carefully review a family album. Possibly we will recognize ourselves in their memories.

These Theater Performances are in Spanish but, at the risk of repeating myself, art is universal and actors on stage have a powerful presence. If these shows are anything like the last series put on by the Vallarta Cultural Department, they are excellent in any language.

Recuerdos del Paraíso

• by Alberto Fabián
• Saturdays and Sundays in November
• Cuale Cultural Center, 8 pm
• 80 psesos

Soy Homosexual

• by the teatro de Edgar Treviño
• Fridays in November
• Cuale Cultural Center, 8 pm
• 50 psesos

Muerte Son

• by teatro de Javier Echeveste
• Thursdays in November
• Cuale Cultural Center, 8 pm
• 30 psesos

Una Cómica Maleta

• by teatro de la ciudad de Guadalajara.
• November 11 and 12
• Cuale Cultural Center, 8 pm
• 80 psesos

Within the traditional celebrations of Day of the Dead, members of the education sector and the municipality of Puerto Vallarta will transform the resting area of the 5 de Diciembre cemetery into a stage for the presentation of the play, “La Vida Inútil de Pito Pérez” (The useless life of Pito Pérez), written by Jose Romero Galván.

This is the first time a play will be presented inside of the cemetery. There will be two performances: Saturday, October 31, and Sunday, 1 November, at 7 pm.

Admission is free but there is room for only about 80 people at each presentation. Invitations are being prepared, “Una hora con la muerte y algo más” (An hour with the Dead and Something More…).

A new tradition in the making.