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OnStage! Festival is back. The first American Theater Festival in Italy, presented by KIT Italia and The International Theatre in collaboration with Kairos Italy Theater in New York, Music Theater International and Roma Tre University.  The 2022 edition of OnStage! Festival, focused on Human Rights, will be held from 18 to 24 November in Rome, Pesc...

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The Uncle Louie Variety Show is composed of two hilarious Italian American comedians, Carlo Russo and Lou Greco. For many years, they have been making people laugh through their unique brand of comedy that brings memories on how it was like to grow up as an Italian. Their live shows always exceed the audience’s expectations. They perform different...

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Anthony J. Wilkinson returns to Ocean Casino Resort on Saturday, November 12 for My Big Gay Italian Funeral in Ovation Hall. This is the sequel to the Off-Broadway hit comedy, My Big Gay Italian Wedding and includes some of the same characters you know and love. Doors open at 7:00pm; showtime is 8:00pm. My Big Gay Italian Funeral picks up where My...

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“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent,” but no one could accuse actor and playwright Chazz Palminteri of having squandered an ounce of it. The accomplished multihyphenate brought a revival of his one-man show, “A Bronx Tale,” to the sold-out Emerson Colonial Theater on Oct. 9. The filled seats were an excellent reminder of why “A Bronx Tale”...

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Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC) presents comedian Eric D’Alessandro on Saturday, November 5 at 7:00pm.  The New York native has always found his place in the spotlight. His passion for comedy is equally credited to his creative mindset, as well as his big Italian-American family which inspires his raw comedic sketches and uncensored, relatable r...

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New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) welcomes the Candice Guardino's Italian Bred on Friday, November 4, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. Back by popular demand! In her one-woman show Italian Bred, actress and storyteller Candice Guardino shares a heartfelt look at her quirky childhood on Staten Island. With humor and skill, Candice impersonates all of the m...

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Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 2022-23 Composer Portraits series with Luca Francesconi. Ensemble Signal performs two large-scale works by the Italian composer in a concert rescheduled from last season. The program also features an onstage discussion with Luca Francesconi and Melissa Smey, Thursday, November 3...

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Thursday, October 20, 2022. 7:00pm - 8:00pm. Druker Auditorium - 330 Homer Street, Newton, Massachusetts. Chiara Durazzini, artistic director and co-founder of the Commedia dell’Arte troupe Pazzi Lazzi, will talk about the history and characteristics of Commedia dell’Arte through its iconography and show some physicality typical of its characters....

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When: October 21, 22 & 23, 2022 - Where: ODC Theater, 3153 17th St, San Francisco, CA - An Opera composed by Leonardo Vinci in 1725. Libretto by Antonio Salvi. A dark tale of post-Iliad trauma, vengeance, sexual havoc and threatened infanticide, composed by one of the early 18th century’s most brilliant and under-recognized operatic masters. Simila...

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A premiere is always a gift to the attending public because of its novelty, regardless of the content and validity of the performance, but in the case of After Dinner Opera Company’s “Sacco and Vanzetti” an extra layer of glamour and interest was added, both because of the composers and the topic of the opera. Yes, it’s composers and not composer,...

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