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The CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale, New York, will open their Main Stage Season 51 with A BRONX TALE: THE MUSICAL, running August 12 to 26 in their Noel S. Ruiz Theatre. “It's a family, it's a language, it's a neighborhood, it's a time period, it's a culture,” says John Mazzarella, Co-Director and Scenic Designer of A BRONX TALE.  Written by ...

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Comedy Works (Denver, CO) has announced that Anthony Rodia will perform at Comedy Works South at the Landmark. Anthony Rodia is one of the hottest up-and-coming stand-up comedians in comedy. His comedy is refreshingly genuine, quick witted and TOTALLY RELATABLE!  Anthony's comedy is relatable, real and includes razor sharp observations on marriage,...

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 The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Lee Strasberg Creative Center have selected playwright and screenwriter Aniello Fontano to be the recipient of the 2023 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission. Started in 2012, this annual initiative commissions an emerging playwright to develop a fully original work for college-age students. T...

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Comedian Anthony Rodia will come to Stambaugh Auditorium on Sept. 15. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show range from $69 to $49 (plus applicable fees) and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 31, at the box office and at stambaughauditorium.com. A limited number of VIP packages are also available. A first-generation Italian American raised in Westch...

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In the same years in which Broadway was already the Hollywood of Musicals and the big film production companies bought the rights to works such as " Singin 'in the Rain " and "An American in Paris", Italy too found its dimension of " musical theatre,” as a specific reflection of the spirit of a nation. Starting from the "revue" genre (the Italian c...

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Ah, the scene of the crime. Figuratively speaking, that is. The place where Joe Pantoliano first realized he was going to be an actor. The auditorium of Cliffside Park High School. Where he has now returned, 53 years after he graduated. "All I remember is how much fun it was," said Pantoliano, leaning back among the orchestra seats where his first...

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On June 23 and 24 at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Boston Early Music Festival’s presentation of Francesca Caccini’s “Alcina,” a comic opera in four scenes, will serve as a reminder that music in 17th-century Italy did not concern itself exclusively with liturgy, nor was it written exclusively by men. In fact, this year’s encore performances...

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A Bronx Tale, Robert De Niro’s 1993 directorial debut, starred as the Tribeca Festival’s closing gala with the famed actor acknowledging that he never got asked to direct again following the film’s inauspicious box office debut. “I was lucky to be able to make the movie. I made it the way I wanted to make it. I didn’t compromise at all. And I took...

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When: Sunday, June 25, 2023 @ 7:00pm - Where: Carteret Performing Arts Center, 46 Washington Ave, Carteret, NJ 07008 A first-generation Italian-American born and raised in Westchester, New York, Anthony Rodia came out of the womb making people laugh. In his 20’s he tried a few open mics, but ultimately took a different career path as a finance mana...

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IO MI CANTO DA SOLA Storie di donne mai arrese (I SING MY OWN SONG - Stories of Women who never surrendered). Boston Playwrights' Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215. Friday June 9 at 7:30 PM; Saturday June 10 at 7:30 PM; Sunday June 11 at 3:00 PM. The show is a series of monologues about historical Italian women who were victims of vio...

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