New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents comedian Anthony Rodia on Friday, July 30 and Saturday, July 31, 2021 with shows both nights at 7:00pm and 9:30pm. Rodia is the “King of Off the Boat Comedy,” a first-generation Italian-American comedian born and raised in Westchester, New York. In addition to selling out comedy clubs across the co...
READ MOREDuring the month of July we will highlight theater, dance and new circus performances from VIVERE ALL'ITALIANA (VIA) ON STAGE, a performance festival in video format, focusing each week on a different theme. After Dante and Art, this week we explore Fellini. La dolce vita - by Associazione Teatro Potlach. Theater, multimedia. In Italian with Englis...
READ MORE"What is wrong with you people?" That will be among the questions comedian Sebastian Maniscalco asks when he comes to The Borgata Events Center for 14 shows starting July 23 with rescheduled shows as well as two new ones added July 25. Maniscalco, who began his career in 1998 performing at open mic nights, has since performed five hysterical comedy...
READ MOREWriter/Performer Frank Ingrasciotta treads the boards once gain performing his one-man play Blood Type: RAGU at the historic and newly-renovated Legacy Theatre in Stoney Creek, CT. This vintage theatre once housed Orson Welles renowned Mercury Theatre Company. Blood Type: RAGU will perform as a special event on Friday, July 9th and Saturday, July 1...
READ MOREBallet superstar Roberto Bolle brings his celebrated show, Roberto Bolle and Friends, to Napa for the annual Festival Napa Valley Dance Gala, an event that invariably ranks among the year’s Festival highlights. A principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre from 2009-2019, a principal dancer étoile at La Scala Theatre Ballet, and a guest artist with...
READ MOREIt’s 6:25 p.m., and Sebastian Maniscalco has an 8:45 set at the Comedy Store scheduled. He did the same thing the night before. As America returns to life closer to pre-pandemic shutdown, the comic, who sold out Madison Square Garden for four shows over two nights, is gearing up for what he loves: giving his singular take on the odd ways people liv...
READ MOREThe Theater League of Clifton will hold auditions for its dinner/theater production of My Big Gay Italian Wedding on June 22 and 23 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm at Mario’s Restaurant (710 Van Houten Ave) in Clifton. Call backs are slated for June 24 from 7:00pm to 9:30pm, if necessary. In the play, Andrew and Anthony are getting married – and everyone wan...
READ MOREThe Verona Opera Festival 2021 has become an ambassador for Italian culture and beauty, thanks to a close collaboration by the Verona Arena Foundation with some of the top museums and exhibition spaces in the country, from the Uffizi to the Vatican Library, in the most significant development for this year's opera season in the iconic Veneto city....
READ MOREOn Thursday night, May 27, Macaluso’s in Hawthorne became the setting for the Hawthorne Pride Alliance’s presentation of “My Big Gay Italian Wedding,” a play written by Anthony J. Wilkinson. Ticket sales went toward the HPA’s scholarship fund, which will be used to benefit two Hawthorne High School students as they seek higher education. HPA Chair...
READ MORENew Jersey Performing Arts Center will present Vic DiBitetto on Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 9:30 p.m. Vic DiBitetto-"The Italian Hurricane"-returns to NJPAC! Get ready for a night of "blue-collar comedy in a red sauce" with one of Jersey's own. On TV, the big screen, and comedy stages across the country, Amer...
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