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New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents two opportunities to have an evening with Vic DiBitetto in the Victoria Theater - first on Friday, January 26, 2018 at 8:00pm and again on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 8:00pm. A grand prize winner on America's Funniest People, frenetically fantastic comedian Vic DiBitetto – aka “The Italian Hurric...

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Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, kicked off the 5th annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan on May 1st. The opening celebrated Award Winning playwright Mario Fratti with friends and admirers. With daily events in venues all around the city, the festival is c...

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Two actors, Ed Gero and Jade Wheeler, are opposites in age, one in his well-seasoned prime years; the other, a young adult. Gero wore sneakers, shorts and a casual jacket, with “The Originalist” emblazoned. Wheeler wore boots with a denim jacket and donned an Afro hairdo. Both are warm, welcoming, and easily connected with this writer. I interviewe...

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The Italian opera "Don Giovanni," with music written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, had a crowded opening night in Crafton-Preyer Theatre Friday, April 21. The opera was the final show of this season for University Theatre. The opera tells the tale of the despicable womanizer Don Giovanni, who was played by actor Carey Eugene Wilson. Giovanni is a cha...

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Award-winning Pantochino Productions Inc., a not-for-profit professional theatre company for family audiences, has sold out the entire run of it's new musical "Noni Cimino's Kitchen." To accommodate ticket requests, the company has added an additional performance on Saturday, April 29, 2pm, at the Center for the Arts in Downtown Milford. Inspired b...

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People love when comic Vic DiBitetto pokes fun at folks who, when they hear snow is coming, get frantic about buying bread and milk — as if their very lives depend on it. In fact, his viral video, “Bread & Milk” has more than 16 million views. But storm-prep obsessions are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to all the things humans do that D...

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It's wedding theater with an Italian flair, and guests can enjoy a buffet dinner, toast the happy couple and dance the night away, when Tony and Tina exchange vows. "Tony n' Tina's Wedding" will be staged at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 401 Buffalo Ave., Niagara Falls. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 21-22, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 23...

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Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, will present the 5th annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This 15-day festival will offer 7 fully-staged productions from Italy, special events, readings, among other events and activities. All are presented in Italian and English or with English supertitles, c...

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On the occasion of the 150th birth of Luigi Pirandello, master of the dramatic arts, whose philosophical writings are enacted on the stage and screen worldwide, the Italian Heritage and Culture Committee of New York, Inc. chooses its 2017 theme, Celebrating Italian Americans: Cinema and Theatre; Saluting Italian American Actors and Directors.  Begi...

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Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts (PTPA) is honored to welcome back HBO 'Sopranos' star and singer Dominic Chianese for "An All Italian-American Songfest" on Saturday, April 22 at 7 p.m. Dominic Chianese, popularly known as Uncle Junior from HBO's hit show, "The Sopranos," along with Roberta Fabiano, Tony Daniels and Marc Pelliccio will pay...

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