Marinella Senatore and The School of Narrative Dance Performance
November 16, 2019, 12:30-3:30pm. Village of Cold Spring, New York. Italian multidisciplinary artist Marinella Senatore will direct a monumental procession throughout the streets of Cold Spring, New York, inviting the public to collaborate in a performative celebration of community. The three-hour performance will bring together some 100 participant...
Et Alia Theater Hosts Running in Place written by Hasnain Shaikh
Et Alia Theater Company will perform Running in Place by Hasnain Shaikh at Dixon Place. Featuring Ana Moioli, Giorgia Valenti and Maria-Luiza Muller. Directed by Isabella Uzcátegui and stage-managed by Gemma Allen. The play is written, produced and performed by a group of international young artists, each from a different part of the world - come s...
Sinatra Has Special Place in Baseball Play — and Our Lives
Sal "The Voice" Valentinetti has been one of the most popular singers to come out of Long Island. Rightly so, he has one of the best voices in the world. When the girls hear him sing they act like the ones who screamed for Frank Sinatra in the 1940s. In 1977, I met the great Sinatra at Patsy’s Italian Restaurant when I was there with the world cham...
Italian Dialect Theater. From 1900 to Today
Monday, 11/11/2019 - 6:30pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, 22 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. On the Italian Stage is a series of lectures conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti that journeys into the history of Italian Theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. This lecture will focus on Italian diale...
Una Donna Fantasiusa - un nonologo
Wednesday, 11/06/2019 - 7:00pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò22 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011. Idea by/starring Eleonora Micali. Written and directed by Stefano Maria Palmitessa. A true story, where fiction is just background to scenes from real life narrated in this monologue or - better - a "nonologo" [Nonna-logue], as author Stefano Maria Palmite...
Screening of IL SIGNOR JACKSON, by Anton Evangelista
Monday, October 28, 2019, 6pm. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10036. Il Signor Jackson (2018), 40 min. Anton Evangelista, dir. Award-winning filmmaker Anton Evangelista travels from the Bronx to Italy and back in presenting Il Signor Jackson, a story of African American New Yorker Edward...
Marisa Tomei Braves a Typhoon in ‘The Rose Tattoo’
You thought tropical storms were disruptive? The Italian-Americans living along the Gulf Coast in the Roundabout Theater Company’s untethered revival of Tennessee Williams’s “The Rose Tattoo” are really up against the elements, and so are the actors playing them. But it’s nothing as palpable as a hurricane that keeps knocking them off balance and m...
It Happened in Italy - Italy and the Holocaust - The Forgotten Heroes
Sunday October 27. 1:00 - 5:00 pm. Christ the King High School, CNL Center, 3rd Floor. 68-02 Metropolitan Avenue, Middle Village, NY. Admission: $25; open to the public. Contact: J. Gagliano 718-897-3135 Jbgagliano14@yahoo.com Sponsored by La Bella Italia, Inc. My Italian Secret: The Forgotten Heroes will be presented by Vincent Marmorale, consulti...
Corona Performing Works, Oct. 26 & 27, Theatre St. Jean Baptiste
Saturday October 26 at 7:30 PM: Sunday October 27 at 6:30 PM. Theatre St. Jean Baptiste, 150 East 76th Street, NY. Tickets: $25; $15 seniors/students/dancers. Reservations here. Dancers: Maria Vittoria Villa, Cassandra Orefice, Fernando Carrillo, James Samson, James Johnson, Brian Castillo, Melissa Anderson, Josh Beaver, Lil Aronoff and Alessandra...
“Fly Me to the Moon” Dance celebrates Italian heritage
What better way to celebrate Italian-American heritage month than to dance to the great melodies made famous by Frank Sinatra. Local radio personality Don Giovanni is presenting the Fly Me To The Moon Dinner Dance this Saturday evening. It will showcase Sinatra tunes performed by the Ralph Muro Quartet featuring Al Hamme. Plus the guitar music of R...
Ermanno Olmi and Pier Paolo Pasolini Masterpieces at the Eastman Museum
The Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York will host two screenings of Italian classic films. Ermanno Olmi's 1978 film, The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, will be shown as part of the Labor Film Series. The film reflects Olmi's deep understanding of the rhythms of life and labor of northern Italy’s peasants and his commitment to them. Winner of the Palme...
Healing Journeys of Montevergine, Avellino coming to Casa Belvedere
Tuesday, October 22 • 7:00pm. The Italian Cultural Foundation at Casa Belvedere, 79 Howard Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10301. Register Now. Sharing chants, rhythms, and sacred songs, accompanied by 12 audio tracks, Alessandra Belloni details how she uses these therapeutic musical practices to heal women and men and shows how these practices can be us...