Rita Banús, once again entices the audience with her acting ability in the upcoming production at The Theatre Guild of Ancon called "THE MUSICAL COMEDY MYSTERIES OF 1940". Don't miss this production which opens October 16 and runs 17, 18 and 23, 24, 25 at 8:00 PM at the Guild. Your reservation is welcomed at 212-0060. Please read the attached information about the play. Proudly sponsored by The Embassy of the United States of America in Panama. See you on the front porch! The Cast & Crew of MCM of 1940 RESERVATIONS; 212-0060 (Editor's Comment: Like the theater? Then you really should come out to support the Theater Guild of Ancon when they put on their shows. Your support will allow them to thrive, grow, and prosper - that's exactly what we need here in Panama, more growing cultures...) (grin)

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - With direction by Bruce Quinn, musical direction by Dino Nugent, and choreography by Ana Melissa P. de de la Guardia - this musical will be presented starting today, 9 September, running through 30 September 2008, in the Teatro en Circulo. The shows will be from Tuesday to Saturday at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 4:00 pm. Tickets are on sale at the theater (261-5375) and in Physical Models (269-3535).

Copyright 2008 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - The Theater Guild of Ancon will present, the comedy: COME BLOW YOUR HORN by Neil Simon. The play will run June 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28 at 8:00 PM. This is a hilarious comedy about two young men who try to break away from home and the family business. The action is set in New York City, as are most of Neil Simon’s plays and is appropriate for theater-goers of all ages. Carlos Williams, accomplished Director will bring this comedy to our stage. Ed Ward, Diana Luz Parada, Varoon Anand, Amit Nathani, Rita Banus and Kimberly Hall make up the wonderful cast. Benefit night: 20 June AMERICAN SOCIETY and 26 June AGRUPA. RESERVATIONS: 212-0060 (answering machine) Directed by Carlos Williams, Produced by Producido por Gale Cellucci

• “…A slick, lively, funny comedy.” - The New York Times
  
  
• “…It’s completely nuts and banging with laughs”- N.Y. World-Telegraph & Sun
  
  
• “…There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to get serious, quit acting like a kid, and start acting like a grown-up.” Review by Eric Snider

(In the photo - Standing: Gale Cellucci, Amit Nathani, Rita Banús, Varoon Nathani, Kimberly Hall Seated: Ed Ward, Diana Luz Parada, Carlos Williams) (Event Poster Below)

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - The Theater Guild of Ancon will present, the comedy: COME BLOW YOUR HORN by Neil Simon. The play will run June 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28 at 8:00 PM. This is a hilarious comedy about two young men who try to break away from home and the family business. The action is set in New York City, as are most of Neil Simon’s plays and is appropriate for theater-goers of all ages. Carlos Williams, accomplished Director will bring this comedy to our stage. Ed Ward, Diana Luz Parada, Varoon Anand, Amit Nathani, Rita Banus and Kimberly Hall make up the wonderful cast. Benefit night: 20 June AMERICAN SOCIETY and 26 June AGRUPA. RESERVATIONS: 212-0060 (answering machine) Directed by Carlos Williams, Produced by Gale Cellucci.

• “…A slick, lively, funny comedy.” - The New York Times
• “…It’s completely nuts and banging with laughs”- N.Y. World-Telegraph & Sun
• “…There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to get serious, quit acting like a kid, and start acting like a grown-up.” Review by Eric Snider

Copyright 2008 by Don Winner for Panama-Guide.com. Go ahead and use whatever you like as long as you credit the source. Salud.

The Theater Guild of Ancon will present, the comedy: COME BLOW YOUR HORN by Neil Simon. The play will run June 19, 20, 21 and 26, 27, 28 at 8:00 PM. This is a hilarious comedy about two young men who try to break away from home and the family business. The action is set in New York City, as are most of Neil Simon’s plays and is appropriate for theater-goers of all ages. Carlos Williams, accomplished Director will bring this comedy to our stage. Ed Ward, Diana Luz Parada, Varoon Anand, Amit Nathani, Rita Banus and Kimberly Hall make up the wonderful cast. Benefit night: 20 June AMERICAN SOCIETY and 26 June AGRUPA. RESERVATIONS: 212-0060 (answering machine) “…A slick, lively, funny comedy.” - The New York Times. “…It’s completely nuts and banging with laughs”- N.Y. World-Telegraph & Sun. “…There comes a time in everyone's life when you have to get serious, quit acting like a kid, and start acting like a grown-up.” Review by Eric Snider. Note: The Theatre Guild of Ancon has been providing English language theatrical productions on a continuous basis since 1950 by volunteers from the community. Our audience is the local and international community living in Panama. Try it now.

“An Afro-Antillean Sentiment: Images from a Panamanian Culture” an exhibition of photographs by Rose Marie Cromwell will be shown at the Diablo Rosso gallery from October 24th to November 25th. Cromwell, a documentary photographer, spent the last year in Panama as a United States Fulbright Grantee. She interviewed and photographed Panamanians of Afro-Antillean descent living in Panama City, Colon, and Bocas del Toro. During the early 20th Century tens of thousands of workers emigrated from the Caribbean to build the Panama Canal. Most never returned to their homelands, but instead settled permanently in Panama. Throughout the past 100 years this Panamanian community has preserved many of their Caribbean traditions despite facing much adversity while cultivating their national identity. Cromwell’s portraits tell the stories and personal anecdotes of Afro-Antillean Panamanians, while exploring themes such as memory, nostalgia, cultural identity and pride. The opening celebration of the exhibition will take place at 7pm, Wednesday the 24th at the Diablo Rosso Gallery, Calle 48, Bella Vista, Panama City. Phone: 399.8825

By Charly Garcia - This is a reminder that the upcoming Benefit for the Escuela JFK organized by the American Society of Panama is just one week from tomorrow. We need you to make your reservations to attend as soon as possible. Please join us to make this project a success by either attending the production of "The Night of The Iguana" on Thursday the 19 th of July or making a donation . One of our members has offered a special and very generous donation of $1000.00 if we can come up with the matching donation of $1000.00. You, the membership can make this donation a reality. You can help get this special project repairing the existing water tank and installing new water tanks at the JFK School finally get completed. This project will never become a reality without your generosity and support. We can appeal and ask, but without your support it will not be, and we will fail to raise these needed funds. We are so fortunate, we have so much. The little bit needed from you will make such a difference in these children's lives. (more)

The Theatre Guild of Ancon will present its fourth production of the 2007 season called THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, by Tennessee Williams. The play will run July 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21 at 8:00pm. Pat Quinn, accomplished screen ("Alice" in ALICE'S RESTAURANT), TV and stage actress/director, has returned to Panama to bring this drama to our stage. The wonderful cast of Ed Ward, Betsy Ward, Varoon Anand, Theresa M. Apple, Ximena Cambeforte, Charlotte Arnoux, David Savastuk and Maro Guevara are currently in rehearsal. THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA is the story of people brought together in a 1965 Mexican hillside resort with their conflicting needs, and their resolve to survive beyond the limits of each one's particular anguish. The play's most poignant moments--scenes of enormous compassion--grow out of the understanding of the characters' mutual needs for companionship and roots and their final surrender to the nobility of Nature. Press quotes: "…Tennessee Williams at the top of his form" – The New York Times "…the most fruitful and versatile exercise by our best living playwright"- New York Journal American Benefit Night: 19 July - American Society RESERVATIONS: 212-0060 E-mail: cellucci@cwpanama.net Tel/Fax: 507-264-4271

By DON WINNER for Panama-Guide.com - We invite you to meet the restorer of the National Theatre of Panama and the author of the book "Paris in Panama." Professor Anton Rajer, the worlds foremost authority on the works of Panamanian artist Roberto Lewis, will be lecturing on the recently inaugurated exhibit of Lewis' work at Panama's Museum of Contemporary Art in Ancon on Thursday morning (today) at 10:00 am. Anyone who is interested is invited to attend this courtesy lecture. The author will be available before and after to personally sign the limited and numbered edition of "Paris in Panama."

I am reprinting this article that came out in The Visitor. I find it of interest to our community and hope they do not mind my sending it out to another audience. Lets support our Arts here in Panama. This is an exceptiionally good production. “The Barber of Seville” - March 15 A troupe of renowned Italian and Argentinian opera singers will take part in Gioacchino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville", on Thursday, March 15 at Anayansi Theater at 8:00 p.m. The opera is the first part of the Figaro trilogy by French playwright Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. The original Beaumarchais version was first performed in 1775, in Paris at the Comédie Française at the Tuileries Palace. Rossini is well known for his fast work at composition, and true to his style, all the music for Il Barbiere di Siviglia was completed in under three weeks; though the famous overture was actually borrowed from a prior Rossini opera, “Aureliano in Palmira”. Barbiere was first performed on February 20, 1816, to disastrous failure: The audience hissed and jeered throughout the performance, and several on-stage accidents occurred. The second performance, however, met with quite a different fate, becoming a roaring success.