Il cinema italiano continua ad essere grande protagonista a New York. Sabato, alla Casa Italiana della New York University, ha avuto luogo un interessante appuntamento con i registi e gli attori della rassegna cinematografica Open Roads: New Italian Cinema. Non era semplice, in una sette giorni dai ritmi così intensi e serrati, riuscire a riunire i...

“Let’s Wake Up, Italics!“ will take place on Wednesday, June 7th, at 5.30 pm at the Consulate General of Italy, 690, Park Avenue, New York NY 10065. “A wake-up call” are the words that open Piero Bassetti’s latest discussion of his notion of Italics and Italicity in his book, Let’s Wake Up, Italics! A Manifesto for a Glocal Future, which is the Eng...

“Sold out”, con sala gremita da quasi 400 persone, giovedi sera al Lincoln Center, all’inaugurazione del festival Open Roads: New Italian Cinema. Una grande partecipazione che ha visto come protagonista, per la prima serata, la pellicola Indivisibili (Indivisible), di Edoardo De Angelis. Un film che racconta della crescita e delle vicissitudini di...

I valori della cultura italiana festeggiati come forse, ormai, non si festeggiano più nemmeno in Italia. In una Park Avenue a New York vestita a festa, venerdì, si sono svolte le celebrazioni per il 71esimo compleanno della Repubblica Italiana: un 2 giugno da ricordare nel quale sono state valorizzate le eccellenze culinarie, linguistiche e artisti...

June 28 (Wednesday) 7:30 pm: Napoli, Brooklyn - The Laura Pels Theatre - 111 West 46th Street, Manhattan Roundabout Theatre presents the world premiere of Napoli, Brooklyn, the latest work from Meghan Kennedy. In 1960 Brooklyn, the Muscolinos have raised three proud and passionate daughters. But as the girls come of age,their paths diverge-in drast...

Last night, Sergio Rossi hosted an intimate dinner in New York to celebrate the new sr1 collection. It was hosted by CEO Riccardo Sciutto and held at Lavagna, the East Village eatery offering traditional Italian trattoria fare, where well-heeled guests were given a taste of Italy. Next to the menu lay a miniature lookbook cataloging an assortment o...

New York Opera Fest is not only offering live performances or staged productions. The event is also showcasing major lectures with some of the industry’s greatest thinkers. Among them is Fred Plotkin, who is easily THE opera expert in the United States. Throughout his career, Plotkin has showcased his knowledge and skill as a writer (you should che...

June 23 (Friday) 7:00 pm Italian Short Readings. italytime's Literary Cafe presents the new program "Short Readings: Italian Plays, Poems and Stories" in honor of Luigi Pirandello's 150th birthday. The evening will include the reading of two one-act plays written by the Nobel Prize winner, followed by Q&A with Artistic Director Vittorio Capotorto....

Each year, “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” screens films that draw upon Italy’s rich cinematic heritage and that provide a snapshot of contemporary Italian life. A collaboration of The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Open Roads 2017 will screen at New York City’s Walter Reade Theater beginning June 1. Italophiles will w...

June 10 (Saturday)  5:30 - 7:30 pm The Italian American Writers Association 2nd Saturday Reading Series. Pushcart Prize nominated Olivia Kate Cerrone will read from her latest work, The Hunger Saint, a historical novella about the child miners of rural Sicily. Nino Provenzano, Vice President of Arba Sicula, will read in Sicilian and English from Fo...