Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - If you haven't been to the ACT II Entertainment complex recently, you don't know what you're missing! In addition to the Main Stage productions listed below, there's a full line-up of musical entertainment going on in The Red Room Cabaret and Encore Piano Bar.
The Golden Girls Opens in the Main Stage Theater January 22 For 8 Shows Only
January 22-24 & 28-31 at 8 pm, January 25 at 3 pm
Starring four of San Francisco's top drag luminaries; Heklina (Dorothy), Cookie Dough (Sophia), Matthew Martin (Blanche) and Turleen (Rose), the mise-en-scène is reasonably straightforward. Take four talented drag performers, cast them in two classic episodes of the ground-breaking and uproarious TV show,
The Golden Girls, and hilarity will ensue.
The Golden Girls started performances in San Francisco in 2006 in the front parlor of a Victorian Mansion in the Western Addition of the City by the Bay. The shows quickly became more and more popular with the shows being performed twice annually - for a month every June and for a month each December. As 'The Golden Girls' became more popular, they moved to sold out-runs at ever larger venues. In 2011 the show moved to the 500 seat Victoria Theatre where it now plays every December, for smash runs of its Christmas Episodes. In 2013 all 12 shows sold out! They've toured with the shows from New Orleans to the Russian River, and now look forward to their Puerto Vallarta debut!
The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
January 15, 16, & 17th at 8:00 pm
Secret passageways, Nazi saboteurs, and dead bodies combine to create a blizzard of mayhem in this sidesplitting comedy. Poking antic fun at the more ridiculous aspects of "show biz" and the corny thrillers of Hollywood's heyday, the play is a non-stop barrage of laughter as those assembled (or at least those who aren't killed off) untangle the mystery of the Stage Door Slasher.
New York Magazine hails Murders as "the intelligent person's kind of nonsense." To tell you any more would spoil the fun. This Murder Mystery is a nonstop ride of laughs and mystery, directed by Danny Mininni. This is Danny's second time in the director's chair for this show. In 1990 his California production was honored by winning the
L.A. TIMES Best Pick of the Week with extended runs and sold out shows. MCM of 1940 will be starring many of Vallarta's favorites, including Act II founding member Elizabeth Ensor, Mary Amelotte, Anthony St Martin, Roger Uscila, Stephanie Wright Watts, Adam Bishop, Salvador Ruiz, Cherry De Lorenzo, Heidi Pitts and Hal Bonta. Tickets can be purchased online at
actiientertainment.com or at the box office.
The Voice Of Vallarta Season 2
Sunday Nights at 8:00 pm
The Voice of Vallarta returns to the Main Stage! Week SIX brings the long awaited 'Broadway Week' with Guest Judge, Dame Edna, who'll add a ton of laughs to the evening. Dame Edna is now appearing in The Red Room Cabaret on Tuesday through Friday nights through February 14th, visit
actiientertainment.com for show details. Once again the highest attend show in Vallarta's history is looking for the best singer in the Bay of Banderas, hosted once again by Juan Pablo Hernandez, who turns
Spanglish into an art form! This year taking the judges chairs are: PVMC Choral Director, Alfonso Lopez and returning to the table, Kharla Barragan, Edgar Sanchez and our weekly celebrity guest judge. The Voice of Vallarta will run every Sunday till the big closing night March 29th. A Voice of Vallarta Pass is now available at www.vallartatickets.com. This pass will get you into all auditions, seats in the first three rows, one cocktail per show and seats for the big closing night. Check it out!
Both Sides Now, a Joni Mitchell Tribute
Mondays & Tuesdays through January 27 at 8 pm
Both Sides Now is a theatrical presentation of the music of Joni Mitchell, performed live with the Don and Rhonda band, and starring Canadian singer Jenny Allen. The show presents 2 sides of Joni's music -acoustic folk and progressive rock/jazz.
Some of the songs featured are:
Both Sides Now, Circle Game, Chelsea Morning, California, and Woodstock. Act 2 includes songs such as
Raised on Robbery, Free Man in Paris, and the Joni Mitchell collaborations with Charles Mingus. Also included is a song called
Night of the Iguana, written by Joni about Puerto Vallarta.
The band members are: on piano and vocals, Rhonda Padmos, the musical director of Act II Entertainment's productions of The Rocky Horror Show, A Chorus Line, Sordid Lives, and Carole King's Tapestry; on acoustic and electric guitar and dulcimer, Don Pope, the leader of the sitar band Katmandu; Jesus Estrada on drums; Marcos Milagres from Rio de Janeiro Brasil on bass; and well-known guitar master Willow from the popular duo, Beverly and Willow. Both Sides Now will delight lovers of both folk and progressive rock/jazz music spanning the eras of the 60s to present. Don't miss your chance to enjoy the art form of the iconic Canadian songwriter and singer, Joni Mitchell, right here in Puerto Vallarta! Tickets can be purchased online at vallartatickets.com or at the ACT II Entertainment box office.
Tickets to all shows can be purchased online at
actiientertainment.com or at the box office, which opens daily at 12:00 pm. The Main Stage theater is located in the Act II Entertainment STAGES complex on the corner of Insurgentes and Basilio Badillo, just a short stroll from the beach on the South side of Puerto Vallarta. For more information, call (322) 222-2357, 222-1512, or
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