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Massimo Didonna is set to take on the role of "Ezio" in the hit Off-Broadway comedy "My Big Gay Italian Funeral" now in it's second year, opposite creator Anthony J. Wilkinson. Didonna is certainly no stranger to knowing how to entertain an audience and is ready to take on his first official acting role as the outspoken nightclub and funeral home o...

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Why do the long haul down to Pompeii and Herculaneum when you have this wonderful alternative just outside the city? A half-hour hop on the commuter train to Ostia brings you to Ostia Antica, the impressively preserved port of the ancient city. The Med is now two miles away but for well over 600 years, until its decline in the fourth century AD,...

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by Roberto Natalini Una serata all'insegna del puro divertimento e della tradizione degli spettacoli di varietà all'italiana e musical americani, capace di portare in scena una produzione artistica interculturale unica nel suo genere.    È stata questa la formula vincente del Cabaret Comico, progetto artistico nato dalla collaborazione...

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You are cordially invited to attend a special staged presentation of Aldo Nicolaj's play, "Visit to Relatives" at the Italian American Museum on Saturday, October 25th (7:30 P.M.) and Sunday, October 26th (6:00 P.M.).   In "Visit to Relatives" the visitor-spectator is led to enter into a universe of original characters, which are proud to pr...

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Friday, November 7 | 7:00pm | Dante Alighieri Society | 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge What do you get when you put together a hungry servant, a know-it-all Latin speaking doctor and a string of sausages? You get Pazzi Lazzi in Aria di Commedia - An evening of Comedy, Art and Renaissance Music! You'll Giggle at Dottore's "little problem" and the b...

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The online portion of Festa di Natale is now open. The auction will run from to December 16, 2015, with the live event taking place on December 16, 2015. Proceeds go to Kairos Italy Theater in order to support. Auction items range from exotic vacation getaways to donated items guaranteed to delight and surprise. So, tell your friends, family, commu...

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di Marta Veltri   Ormai un piccolo classico del teatro italiano, Marathon (La Maratona di New York) del milanese Edoardo Erba, approda al Dicapo Opera Theatre per la sua prima mise en scène a New York dopo essere stato tradotto in diciassette lingue e pubblicato in otto. Lo spettacolo ha debuttato nel 1993 al Teatro Due di Parma, con una per...

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Ten years ago, "My Big Gay Italian Wedding," a production by playwright/actor Anthony J. Wilkinson that satirizes the controversy surrounding same-sex marriage while drawing on larger-than-life gay and Italian characters, was signed for a six-week run at the Actors' Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. Six months became a year, then the show...

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by Ilana Keller   GiaNina Paolantonio's performance in "Matilda" on Broadway is mind-boggling. Literally. The 10-year-old from Oakhurst plays Amanda Thripp in the hit musical, a student who is memorably picked up and thrown by her pigtails by the evil headmistress Miss Trunchbull.   GiaNina is quick to single out that moment...

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IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY announces the winner of the 2016 Mario Fratti Award: BUTTERFLIES by Emanuele Aldrovandi. Presented annually to an emerging Italian playwright, the winning play is translated into English and the playwright receives a specially commissioned lithograph by artist Victoria Febrer. The award is named after Mario Fr...

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