Actor Gianlorenzo Albertini caught the eye of director Paul Warner while studying at the acclaimed New York Film Academy. Warner, a teacher at the Academy and a resident artist at the famed Baryshnikov Arts Center was the director of a new multi-disciplinary dance theater-opera, Women: The War Within.   Warner brought Gianlorenzo Albertini...

The Italian Society at Berkeley is delighted to announce that renowned Bay Area actress, Maria Grazia Affinito, will be showcasing her award-winning one-woman show, Eating Pasta Off the Floor, on September 19, 2016 in B-4 Dwinelle Hall at 8PM and leading a workshop the following day   Eating Pasta Off the Floor is the story of Maria and her...

This holiday season, spend Another Christmas With the Calamari Sisters. Stars of the public access cooking show Mangia Italiano, "sisters" Delphine and Carmela graduated to the big leagues of the Food Network. But they're coming back to WFAT with laughs, songs, spicy anecdotes and loads of holiday mayhem.   The dynamic duo will regale you wi...

By Olivia Clement "Sex and the City"'s Mario Cantone and the original "Karate Kid," Ralph Macchio, are tapped to headline the world premiere of A Room of My Own, written and directed by Charles Messina. The new comedy looks at New York City life in the late 1970's.   The Off-Broadway production will begin previews Feb. 13, 2016, in the June...

Il teatro italiano torna in scena a New York dal 9 al 22 giugno prossimi. Parte la nuova edizione di In Scena!, il festival organizzato da Kairos Italy Theater (la compagnia teatrale italiana a NY), che lo scorso anno per la prima volta ha portato i nostri artisti nei cinque distretti cittadini: 30 artisti, oltre 800 spettatori, 9 location, 33 fra...

Balanzone, Fagiolino, Lazzarone e altri burattini bolognesi sono sbarcati di nuovo negli Stati Uniti.   Dopo la tournée del 2009 a Colorado Springs, la compagnia Burattini di Riccardo è stata ospitata all'Oxford College della Emory Universityad Atlanta in Georgia, dove il 20 novembre alla Williams Hall si è alzerà il sipario sulla commedia "...

A homage to Italian Futurism. Massimiliano Finazzer Flory plays the role of the movement's founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.   In an effervescent monologue which uses the words of Marinetti and other Futurist ideologues such as Giovanni Papini, Libero Altomare and Aldo Palazzeschi, Finazzer Flory, in a frock coat bringing to mind the forma...

By James D. Watts Jr.   The Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage was weeks away when the American Theatre Company announced its plans to stage "My Big Gay Italian Wedding." But when playwright Anthony Wilkinson first began working on this musical comedy, the idea of a show about two men and the familial insanity that swirls aroun...

by Zachary Newcott   Sentimentality isn't bound by boxes, paper wrapping or ribbons. It opens with every memory. For director Donny Graham, memories of "Over the River & Through the Woods" have been cooking since current cast member Keith Lindersmith directed the production more than 10 years ago.   You can experience those sentim...

Friday, November 6th (6:30 PM); Translated by Prof. Santi V. Buscemi; Performed by students and faculty of Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ; Italian American Museum, 155 Mulberry Street (Corner of Grand and Mulberry Streets) New York, NY 10013 Suggested donation of $10 per person For reservations, please call the...