Tacoma Musical Playhouse continues its 2017-18 season with “My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra,” which functions as the playhouse’s romantic Valentine’s show, featuring a bounty of songs about love and romance. The cast of eight singer/actors are backed up by a live band on stage: Jeffrey Stvrtecky on piano, Jessie Kuras on string bass and...
READ MOREPlaying this week at the Prescott Center for the Arts’ Small stage, Stage Too, is “Italian American Reconciliation: A Folktale.” Playwright John Patrick Shanley is best known for his Oscar winning Screenplay “Moonstruck.” The PCA production features five seasoned actors in roles they seem to inhabit gracefully. The narrator is Aldo, played by Rex...
READ MOREThe 2016 Broadway musical A Bronx Tale, which has been playing to sold-out houses, will be available for professional and amateur licensing from Broadway Licensing. Based on Chazz Palminteri's book and film about growing up in the mafia, A Bronx Tale: The Musical features a book by Academy Award nominee Chazz Palminteri, music by Oscar, Grammy, and...
READ MOREWHEN: Friday, February 23 at 8PM - WHERE: The Federal NoHo, 5303 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 WHAT: “The Meatballs Of Comedy” plans on bringing laughter from the Italian-American perspective to the world through live performance, television and movies. "The Meatballs Of Comedy" show is like an Italian Sunday Dinner at Mamma’s when a...
READ MOREECCE presents Italian/American showcasing premieres and works from Elliott Carter, John Aylward, Clara Iannatta, and Salvatore Sciarrino conducted by Nicholas DeMaison. Taking place on Saturday, February 17th at 7:30pm at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the program features Elliott Carter's classic Triple Duo, Clara Iannata's Limun, Salvato...
READ MORECan Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding still stay fresh and fun more than a year after returning to the Chicagoland theatre scene? The answer is a resounding, yes! Brought back to Chicago after a successful 16-year run by original cast member Paul Stroli last year, the show is now on an indefinite run. This hilarious, all-inclusive, interactive night of entert...
READ MOREWHEN: Friday, March 23rd, 2018 - WHERE: Chevalier Theatre, 30 Forest St , Medford Square Massachusetts - VIC DiBITETTO will perform at CHEVALIER THEATRE in Medford Square. An incredibly powerful performer, comedian Vic DiBitetto churns energy, honesty and humanity into nonstop laughter. His pace is frenetic. He’s been called a cross between Rodney...
READ MOREActor/playwright Nick Albanese has found his stride and wants to take it a step further. "Since I was in college as a theatre major, I've always wanted to do a one-man play," says the Rhode Island native, now playing his one-man show, THE LAST SICILIAN, at the historic 13th Street Repertory Theatre through the 29th of January. "But I was young," he...
READ MORESebastian Maniscalco will join Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in the real-life drama Green Book. Green Book follows an Italian-American bouncer, Tony Lip (Mortensen), who in 1962 is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), one of the world’s finest jazz pianists, on a concert tour from New York City through the pre-Civil Rights era Deep South. The...
READ MOREHershey Area Playhouse announces auditions for John Patrick Shanley's Italian American Reconciliation, a comic look at life and love to usher in spring. Dubbed "a fanciful, lighthearted and zestfully comic exploration of male and female relationships" this award-winning play follows the story of Huey Maximilian Bonfigliano. Huey has a problem: Whil...
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