In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Announces Venues and Performance Schedule for 2025 Festival, 5/5-5/19
The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with the Italy-based KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU will present the 12th season of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater taking place in all five boroughs of NYC, May 5-19. Admission to all shows and events in the festiv...
An Italian Voice Takes Manhattan: The Unfolding Odyssey Of Monica Cialona
Award-winning Italian singer, arranger, and vocal coach Monica Cialona continues her musical journey of unparalleled originality and mastery, as reported by Francesco Arcudi. With New York firmly established as her creative epicenter, she brings to the city her singular blend of jazz intuition, pop craftsmanship, and architectural acoustics. Like B...
Success for the New York stop of the Milano Cortina 2026 International Roadshow
After stops in Munich and Paris, the Milano Cortina 2026 International Roadshow made its way to New York. The American event provided an opportunity to further strengthen the bond between the United States and Italy ahead of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The event, held on March 31 at the prestigious Consulate General of Italy in Ma...
Film Screening: Tutti In Scena!
Tutti In Scena! Tuesday, April 8, 2025 • 7 to 8:30 pm. Casa Belvedere – The Italian Cultural Foundation - 79 Howard Ave, Staten Island, NY. Free for members, $10 suggested donation for non-members. Join us for a special screening of a documentary exploring the history of Italian theater in NYC from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, as told by toda...
That’s Amore: Celebrating Italian American History in New York
That’s Amore: Celebrating Italian American History plays 54 Below (254 West 54th Street) on April 15, 2025 at 7pm. Cover charges are $51.50 - $62.50. Premiums are $101.00. There is a $25 food and beverage minimum. Tickets and information are available here. Tickets on the day of performance after 4:00pm are only available by calling (646) 476-3551....
Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra to Perform Historical Verdi Premiere
The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra is set to present the U.S. premiere of newly rediscovered “Divertissements” for “Nabucco” by Giuseppe Verdi on April 5, 2025. The performance will be held at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. This will mark the first time that the piece is performed in the United States. The ballet was composed...
The Store Under the Portico – A Musical
Inspired by a real-life story, The Store Under the Portico is an original musical set in Mantova, Italy during the German occupation of Northern Italy in WWII. Renata Baraldi, affectionately called “Tata” (a Mantovano term for “nanny”), takes over a fabric store for a Jewish family in hiding at the height of fascism (where women were deemed nothin...
Italian American Rick Pitino brings St. John’s legacy back to life
You dream big when Rick Pitino shows up to coach your team, when he plants that magical seed that grows into a forever moment you want to freeze-frame in your March Madness consciousness. He hasn’t just taken the torch from the late, great Looie Carnesecca, he has fanned the flame of greatness and raised it to the roof at the top of the Big East Co...
“Taxi ”stars reunite to pay tribute to castmate Danny DeVito more than 40 years after show's end
The all-star cast of '70s sitcom Taxi found another reason to reunite Monday. Tony Danza, Marilu Henner, Judd Hirsch, Carol Kane, and Christopher Lloyd met up to watch their former costar Danny DeVito accept the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theater at the Roundabout Theatre Company's gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City. The show...
Italian-American Playwrights to Receive NYC Premiere of New Play
Sacco & Vanzetti Are Dead! July 17-July 27th (minus July 22nd) - The American Theatre of Actors — Sargent Theatre — 314 W54th St New York, NY. Joey DeFilippis, Matt Ferrara, Michael Gardiner, Francesco Baldino, Ilana Schimmel, Danielle MacMath, Dan Yaiullo, Ryan O’Toole. TICKET PRICE: $35.00. RUNNING TIME: 120 min (15-minute intermission). TICKET P...
Sicilian Theater in Little Italy: Remembrances of the Manteo Family
Saturday, March 15 · 3 - 5pm EDT. Italian American Museum, 151 Mulberry Street New York, NY. Step into the world of Little Italy in 1919 when the Manteo family brought their Sicilian puppet theater to Mulberry Street from across the world. This form of entertainment proved to be the most popular for Italians in America in the late 19th and early 20...
Serie A outlines plan to beat the Premier League in race to stage regular season games in the US
A Serie A executive has opened up on ambitious plans to become the first major European league to host regular season games in the US - within three years. Speaking from Serie A's office in New York, Michele Ciccarese, the league's commercial and marketing director, outlined the organization's desire to be a 'trendsetter' by becoming the first Euro...
