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Brush up on your Italian - "Rugantino," one of Italy's most successful musicals, is returning to New York after 50 years. Producers said Monday that a lavish production celebrating the musical comedy's 50th anniversary of its Broadway debut will play New York City Center this June starring Italian comedian Enrico Brignano. The show will be perform...

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di Maurita Cardone   Quando si dice teatro italiano a New York si dice Mario Fratti. Noto alle scene newyorchesi fin dagli anni '60, il commediografo di origini aquilane, autore di più di 90 opere, oltre che columnist de La Voce, scrive ormai quasi esclusivamente in inglese (una lingua di cui non fa che elogiare ricchezza e libertà), ma ha c...

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by Charlene Giannetti The Decameron by 14th century Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio is a collection of novellas containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men hoping to escape the Black Death by isolating themselves in a secluded villa outside Florence.   So what could be more fitting than to see three of th...

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Presented by actor Danny Aiello, The Italian Chicks Musical-Comedy Variety Show opens its East Coast tour on June 7tht, 2015 at the Bellmore Movies & Showplace at 222 Pettit Avenue, Bellmore, NY. It is a one-night only comedy and song event that kicks off their east coast tour which will continue in major cities in New York, Rhode Island, Massa...

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Vibrant, fun-loving and mysterious. DC's Commedia dell'Arte Troupe, Faction of Fools brings the fantastical story of Pinocchio to life at Herndon's Next Stop Theater's Industrial Strength Theatre playing now through March 30, 2014.   Le Avventure di Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio) was written by Italian author, Carlo Collodi (Carlo L...

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Marilyn Monroe had one. Cindy Crawford has one. Madonna has one. Kirk Douglas has one. Joaquin Phoenix has one. 'The Mark' that makes them aesthetically perfect and forever Legends!   Ronnie Marmo possesses a most ideal and rugged 'man-mark' just over his lip. It suits him well. He is naturally intense and when he sp...

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By Laura Caparrotti Scrivo a poche ore dall'inizio dell'allestimento in teatro di Tosca e le altre due di Franca Valeri che la mia compagnia presenta alla Dicapo Opera dal 20 al 30 marzo. Questa è una ripresa, come si usa dire in termini teatrali, e ne sono particolarmente orgogliosa perché celebra uno dei miei miti, la grande e insuperabile Franc...

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The second half of Casa Italia's summer camp will feature several cultural presentations that are free and open to the public. Main Street Opera will present "Rita" by Gaetano Donizetti at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13. In this domestic comedy, Rita, believing her tyrannical first husband, Gasparo, to be drowned at sea, marries the meek Bep...

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The Italian American Museum presents: Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'Italiana). Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles). Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren and The Clause (La Clausola), Live "Monologue" Performance (English). Script by Aldo...

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di Laura Caparotti   La vita di Artemisia Gentileschi ha ispirato numerosissimi artisti, dal teatro al cinema alla televisione ai libri. Solo a New York, in teatro, ho visto almeno tre produzioni negli ultimi dieci anni sulla vita della pittrice vissuta a cavallo fra il 1500 e il 1600.   In occasione di una retrospettiva quasi complet...

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