The Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center is excited to announce that the hilarious one-woman off-Broadway comedy “Italian Bred,” starring Candice Guardino, is coming to downtown Clarksburg on Saturday, August 20, 2022, at the historic Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center, located at 444 W. Pike St. in Clarksburg. Writer, actress, and storyteller...
READ MOREThe Calamari Sisters will bring comedy, cooking, dancing and singing to Bucks County for their new show, “A Musical Cooking Lesson with The Calamari Sisters.” The Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts production, runs through July 31, at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown. BCCPA’s production of the musical “Sweet Charity” follows, Aug....
READ MOREThe Theater Project presents A Jersey Cantata, a comedy about four longtime ‘Jersey guys’. This is the second live, in-person show in The Theater Project’s Three Plays in Three Months summer season at the Maplewood Burgdorff Cultural Center, 10 Durand Road. The play by Bill Mesce, Jr. will be presented from August 18-28. It looks at the life of...
READ MOREThe international comedy hit My Mother's Italian, My Father's Jewish & I'm in Therapy!, featuring actor & comedian Peter J. Fogel, will be coming to the Lakewood Cultural Center for 3 weeks only from August 3-21, 2022. One part lasagna, one part kreplach, and two parts Prozac, you don't have to be Jewish or Italian to appreciate this show. All you...
READ MORE“Are you from the Midwest?” It was something about the way I pronounced “Sebastian” that stand up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco picked up on my roots immediately. In fact, Maniscalco and I are both from the Northwestern suburbs of Chicago, each with a large, extended Italian family and an eye and ear for other expats of the region. Maniscalco’s com...
READ MORESaturday, July 16, 2022 at 8:00 PM. Brook Arts Center, 10 Hamilton St, Bound Brook, NJ, 08805. Danny Aiello’s The Italian Chicks Comedy Show is the newest, hottest comedy tour on the scene today! Appearing at the Brook Arts Center on July 16, 2022, the Italian Chicks is a passionate blend of comedy, characters, music, song parodies, and Italian Ame...
READ MOREMy theater has always been a political battle on the stage.” This is a quote from Dario Fo. When the general public is asked to name an Italian playwright, his usually comes up. He’s been produced all over the world and won the Nobel Price in literature in 1997. His plays are absurdist comedies with social themes. Italy has always had a great theat...
READ MOREAs Tony Ocean belted out the final notes of “My Way” to a roar of applause on May 29 at the Des Plaines Theatre, he surveyed his band onstage and his wife and family in the audience and, amid a shower of roses, wiped a tear from his eye. And why not? Ocean had just finished his 8,000th performance. There has been plenty of glitz along the way: a ru...
READ MOREThe story of St. Francis is pretty well known. Yet, sitting in Manhattan’s La MaMa theater watching “God’s Fool,” I wished that, say, Capuchin Friar Remo DiSalvatore, the Franciscans’ provincial based in Union City, was in the next seat connecting the dots for me. But that would miss the genius of Martha Clarke, the creator and director of this non...
READ MORESeven Angels Theatre announced today the world premiere of Italian Mom Loves You!, a comedy co-written and starring film, television and stage actor Daniel Franzese. This solo tour de force will run at the theatre, located at 1 Plank Road in Waterbury, CT, from August 12 through 21. Italian Mom Loves You! is co-written by Franzese and Connecticut-b...
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