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Frank Santorelli’s character on HBO's classic “The Sopranos” was a bartender at the Bada Bing who ended up getting on his boss’s every last nerve. He got beat for it, of course. You may recall the episode in which that character, Georgie Santorelli (yes, the same last name), bought “Tone” a phone answering machine that featured a singing fish. When...

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 6:00 pm. Italian Cultural Institute of New York - 686 Park Avenue - New York, NY 10065. Organized by : Kairos Italy Theater. Entrance : Free. Book now! Rocco Sisto perfomes Henry IV, a play by Luigi Pirandello, translated by Gloria Pastorino, adapted by Laura Caparrotti and Rocco Sisto and directed by Laura Caparrot...

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Antonio Fini's International Italian Dance Festival - classes and workshops held in his native Calabria and in New York City - will culminate in a Gala Performance and Awards Ceremony, Thursday August 31st, 8 PM, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater. The evening will get off to a joyous start with an authentic tarantella staged by Fini, and follow with p...

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Joseph Bologna, an actor, writer, and director known for his role in 1982’s “My Favorite Year” and for his long collaboration on stage and screen with wife Renée Taylor, has died after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. Bologna died Sunday morning at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif. Just last month, Bologna attended a 35th anniver...

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IATC is pleased to announce that Antonio Brunetti, actor of stage, film and television, will portray Rocco in Roxanne Christofano Pilat’s dramatic memoir, Piano, Piano: Stories from my Father, August 25 at 7 p.m. at Hull House. Antonio is a Chicago-based actor and ensemble member with Trap Door Theatre and Collaboraction. His theatre credits includ...

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Before it was Napoli, Brooklyn, Meghan Kennedy’s play—currently running Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company through August 27—was actually called Talk to Me Of Love. “That was a direct translation of a song that’s in the play called ‘Parlami d’Amore,’ and it’s a Mario Lanza song,” says Kennedy. “Ultimately, we were trying to get something in...

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017, at 7:00 pm. At this event Dean Tamburri will be interviewed about his analysis of the perplexing array of apparent options that face immigrants everywhere as embodied by the Italians who landed in America: adapt to the host culture, remain faithful to one's own heritage, or disown it completely. The discussion will be f...

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Join us for drama and dolci at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, August 25 in the Hull House Dining Room for our inaugural production featuring Roxanne Christofano Pilat’s dramatic memoir, “Piano, Piano: Stories from my Father.” Hull House is located at 800 S. Halsted, Chicago 60607. Parking is available at UIC Lot 4 on the east side of Halsted and Polk. Admiss...

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When Candice Guardino performs, the theater can get a little crowded — even though she is the only person onstage. In her autobiographical one-woman show, “Italian Bred,” Guardino channels the members of her idiosyncratic family. She portrays (among others) her parents, Ronald and Barbara; her younger sister, Kelly; and, notably, her paternal grand...

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The performance is described as “A shamanic experience not to be missed. It will change your life” – “creative synergistic genius” – “(the performance) brings DaVinci and Michelangelo alive”. “WOW. What an amazing show. It was joyful, meaningful, powerful, and inspirational! Thank you for doing a magical job! Your words and visuals were fantastic,...

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