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Mario Fratti passed away in the early morning hours of Saturday in his beautiful Manhattan home. He was 95 years old. He would have continued writing and going to the theater as he did until he was 93 if an inexorable and sudden physical decline had not slowed him down. He was the most famous and prolific Italian author of comedies and plays in the...

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Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia together with NYU Casa Italiana announces a month of May celebration of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY. The celebration includes four sessions of Versetto Libero (May 7, 14, 21 & 28, 3pm-5pm) where the Free Verse poets meet the In Scena! Artists online to collaborate in making and translating poetry and a...

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In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY announces Tobia Rossi’s play Hide and Seek (Nascondino) as the 2019 Mario Fratti Award winner. The award ceremony will take place on Monday, May 13 at 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute (686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021) where the reading of the translation of the play, made by the official translator of the...

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Che bello! Theater RED proudly announces a new addition to the company! Eric Welch joins Theater RED as Artistic Associate following his collaboration with the company in June of 2018 for the Wisconsin premiere of I'LL EAT YOU LAST: A CHAT WITH SUE MENGERS. Eric Welch directed this one-woman comedic romp as a co-production with his theater company,...

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The 6th Edition of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY presented by Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia, had its most successful Festival to date showcasing a record 12 shows, brought over from Italy to NYC. The 15-day, 5-borough Festival, founded by KIT Artistic Director Laura Caparrotti and KIT Italia Artistic Director Donatella Codonesu, boast...

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Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia announce The Winner of the 2018 Mario Fratti Award for Excellence in Italian Playwriting goes to The City Rises (La citta' che sale) by Chiara Boscaro & Marco Di Stefano. The co-winners will receive a translation of their work into English as part of the MFA Collection and a reading at the Italian Institute that...

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Sarà un 5 luglio particolare il prossimo che Mario Fratti trascorrerà a L’Aquila sua Città natale. Infatti, in occasione del novantesimo compleanno dello scrittore, giornalista e critico teatrale (figura di primo piano a New York e nel mondo culturale degli Stati Uniti dove vive dal 1963 a New York) il presidente del Consiglio regionale Giuseppe Di...

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Mario Fratti torna in scena a New York con una commedia brillante e pungente, Six Passionate Women, scritta nel 1981 basandosi sulla sua conoscenza personale con Federico Fellini, un'amicizia che risale alla fine degli anni Cinquanta, quando Fratti lavorava come giornalista a Paese Sera. Ma non c'è solo questo nella commedia di Fratti. C'è il film...

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The Mario Fratti Award is won each year by the author of an original play in Italian or Italian dialect, never-before produced or published. The theme of this year's Mario Fratti Award is "Mothers." Entries are free to tackle this theme is any way and from any point of view.   The jury evaluates each entry according to the following selectio...

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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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