A 9-year-old boy, Calogero, sits on his Bronx stoop, when – POP! – he witnesses a mob boss, Sonny, murder someone. Calogero’s decision not to rat sets into motion a years-long relationship with Sonny which causes him to grapple with following the life of crime or making an honest living like his father, Lorenzo. Thus the stage is set for “A Bronx T...

Forbidden Love with Vanessa Racci & Charlie Romo. Sunday May 7th, 2023 @6:30 p.m. The Green Room 42, Yotel New York Times Square, 570 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10036. Forbidden Love is a fast-paced, 75 minute, mini-broadway-style show chronicling the tragic love story and rise to fame of Bobby Darin and Connie Francis. Click Here To Get Tickets! NY...

The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will present the 10th anniversary season of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, a festival of Italian theater taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, May 1-16. This year the festival will also return to Boston, while g...

Opera Colorado has announced a 40th Anniversary Gala which will star Joyce DiDonato. The concert, which is set to take place on May 13, 2023, in the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and Seawell Ballroom at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, will be chaired by Joy and Chris Dinsdale and all proceeds benefit Opera Colorado’s expanding artistic initiatives...

When: Fri, May 12, 2023 at 7:00 PM - Where: 339 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, 02148 Experience the magic of Italian opera like never before with "Vincerò! The Italian Opera Experience," coming to Malden, MA this May for a limited run. Presented by the Mystic Side Opera Company at the historic Wilbur Fiske Haven House, this Hollywood Award-winning immers...

A festival is bringing the theatrical performances of Italy to New York City audiences free of charge, starting May 1st and running through May 16th. In Scena! is a survey of Italian productions intended to build connections between Italy and New York City and promote the country’s artistic tradition within the New York theater scene. The productio...

Remy Bumppo Theatre Company will stage the world premiere of “Galileo’s Daughter” at Theater Wit in Chicago from April 5 to May 14. Rattled by a personal crisis, a playwright flees to Florence to study the letters between Galileo Galilei and his eldest daughter, Maria Celeste. Maria Celeste, caught up in the threats against her father, must abandon...

Mario Fratti passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday in his beautiful Manhattan home. He was 95 years old. He would have continued writing and going to the theater as he did until he was 93 if an inexorable and sudden physical decline had not slowed him down. He was the most famous and prolific Italian author of comedies and plays in the...

Over a hundred years ago the notes of Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff opened the performances of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. Symbol of the city and of the whole of Sicily, the theater is equipped with perfect acoustics, which built the myth, and is still the third largest opera house in Europe after the Paris Opera and the Vienna Staatsoper.  Its impo...

It's a big gay weekend in Atlantic City on Saturday the 15th at 8PM in Ovation Hall at the Ocean Resort and Casino when "My Big Gay Italian Midlife Crisis," the third chapter in the "Big Gay" Franchise, marks its official debut at the property. The show made its original debut in December of 2015 at the Snapple Theater Center on 50th Street and Bro...