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Dominick LaRuffa Jr. will take on the role of Dominick Vitale in My Big Gay Italian Funeral from May 10 and the part of Mario in My Big Gay Italian Wedding from June 6. The off-Broadway comedies play in rep at St Luke's Theatre under the direction of Sonia Blangiardo and recently extended through September 27.   Starring and written by Antho...

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NCOPILAS, National Council for the promotion of Italian in American Schools, extends an invitation to you to attend the 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States" National COPILAS sponsored cultural event featuring Tony Award Actor Tony Lo Bianco presenting the life of iconic Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. The event will ta...

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by Pamela MacKenzie   He may have some irreverent slants on life and some jokes in language that your mother wouldn't let you use, but Mike Marino redeamed himself Friday night by headlining a fundraising performance to benefit the darling of South Plainfied, six-year-old Brianna Feeney, who suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as Pall...

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Three sisters find the courage - and sarcasm - to talk about incidences of domestic violence.   Winner of the 2014 Rome Fringe Festival Award.   Read more   Source: http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/  

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Lovers of Italian theater lovers won't have to wait until 4th annual IN SCENA! ITALIAN THEATER FESTIVAL NY premieres in May. Beginning February 4th, Kairos Italy Theater (KIT), the preeminent Italian theater company in New York, will present IN SCENA! WINTER. The program will feature encore performances from two past festivals: Francesco Foti's NUO...

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Straight from engagements in Rome, Milan and Florence, MF Production presents Enrico Brignano in Rugantino, in celebration of 50th Anniversary of the show's Broadway debut, from June 12, 13 and 14, 2014 at New York City Center, 131 West 55th Street, NYC.   Tickets start at $35 (premium seating is also offered) and are available at nycitycent...

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  WTI Magazine #53    2015 February, 6Author : Umberto Mucci      Translation by:   We cannot begin our new editorial without celebrating the new President of Italy's Republic, Sergio Mattarella. We the Italians, proud of our country and willing to do whatever we can to promote it in the United States, truly appreciates the choice made by the It...

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Luciano Chessa has had a long, rich career as both musicologist and musician. Now, after releasing six albums and spending thirty-plus years as a composer and performer, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is rewarding him with his own retrospective on April 30.   Born on the Italian island of Sardinia in 1971 to scientist parents, Chessa li...

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Actor Chazz Palminteri, in town Thursday to promote A Bronx Tale, his one-man show coming to the Prince Music Theater Sept. 19-21, told friends that he wanted to visit an Italian neighborhood in Philly.   So after a morning of interviews and a visit to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to be part of WOGL's Radiothon, restaurateur Barry Gut...

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di Riccardo Chioni   Dal teatro alla letteratura, è questo il percorso di Mario Fratti, descritto come "il sarto della parola" che prova a ripetere i successi raccolti dalla commedia "Nine", facendo l'esordio letterario con il libro "Diario proibito" presentato martedì all'Istituto di Cultura di Park Avenue. Gremita per l'occasione la sala...

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