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by Joe Meyers   After skipping last year, "A Merry Mulberry Street Musical" is back at Curtain Call in Stamford, where ticket sales have been very brisk. "We're virtually sold out," Executive Director Lou Ursone reported last week of the sequel to "Mulberry Street," a Stamford favorite for 75 years. "It's great to get an extra financial...

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Academy Award winning director Taylor Hackford will present "Louis & Keely 'Live' at the Sahara" at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago from March 27 through early May. The musical tracks the electrifying on-stage chemistry and tumultuous off-stage romance of Louis Prima and Keely Smith, who reigned as entertainment royalty in Las Vegas through...

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"Visit To Relatives": è lo spettacolo di Aldo Nicolaj che sarà presentato il 5 marzo alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum, New York.   La pièce, presentata da ItalyTheater e diretta da Vittorio Capotorto, racconta di un'esperienza umana ricca e collettiva dove lo spazio e i personaggi riflettono sul mondo che li circonda. Attraverso un per...

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  WTI Magazine #31    2014 May, 22Author : Laurence Cantor      Translation by:   In July, 2013, Vittorio Capotorto, Founder and Artistic Director of italytheater and its parent organization, Teatromania, asked me to write a script that would best help a wide American audience to get to know the work of the great Italian playwright, actor and di...

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Mario Fratti torna in scena a New York con una commedia brillante e pungente, Six Passionate Women, scritta nel 1981 basandosi sulla sua conoscenza personale con Federico Fellini, un'amicizia che risale alla fine degli anni Cinquanta, quando Fratti lavorava come giornalista a Paese Sera. Ma non c'è solo questo nella commedia di Fratti. C'è il film...

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Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, has finalized the calendar of events for the third annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY. This 17-day festival will offer 8 fully-staged productions from Italy, among other events and activities.   Shows will be presented in all five boroughs of New York a...

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A Bronx Tale, an original one-man show written for the stage and performed by actor Chazz Palminteri, comes to Ruth Eckerd Hall for one performance Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m.   Well known for A Bronx Tale, Palminteri originally wrote the script for the stage and performed it as a one-man show in Los Angeles.   Read more   Sourc...

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Arriva a Roma e Milano AMERICA, il docu-musical sull'emigrazione italiana di inizio Novecento, frutto della collaborazione tra il compositore Guido Cataldo ed il performer Simone Sibillano (Il Grande Campione di G. P. Griffi con M. Ranieri, Aladin di F. Angelini, I Promessi Sposi di T. Russo, Jesus Christ Superstar di F. Angelini, Il Fantasma dell'...

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The stage was a woven rug, on which stood a podium, a mic stand and a flowerpot. The backdrop was a bare color-changing screen.   It was a simple arrangement, but it was enough for the performers of "Speaking of Francesca Marciano." In this cozy setting of downtown Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater, local actors read stories from author M...

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by Filomena Fuduli Sorrentino   Laura Caparrotti is an artist, educator, journalist, playwright, lecturer, consultant and Italian dialect coach for Boardwalk Empire, a curator and a panelist for NYSCA, who has been working to spread the Italian culture through theater in New York since 1996.   After years of professional theatre in It...

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