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This summer will mark Sebastian Maniscalco's fifth appearance at the Just for Laughs festival but whereas his past appearances have been limited to sets at the Ethnic Show, the Relationship Show, and various galas, this time he'll be presenting his hour-long one-man show, Aren't You Embarrassed? at Le Gesù Theatre until July 26.   "It's good...

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The evocative stage that becomes part of the summer scenery at the Terme di Caracalla (the Caracalla Baths) makes its return on June 24th, beginning this year's summer opera and ballet season for the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.   Patrons can expect an even richer programme than the last time around, with 25 performances of traditional reperto...

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Who's louder than a bunch of drunken Eagles fans after a team win? Who's more crass in the kitchen than Gordon Ramsay with a team of Hell's Kitchen rejects? Who's insane enough to have a singing, dancing Italian food show broadcast out of cable access in Bay Ridge?   Who bursts out singing "Mambo Italiano" - or is that "Mangia Italiano"? acr...

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Cono Cinquemani è un cantautore italiano e autore dello spettacolo "Dizionario Siculish, cento modi di dire emigrato siciliano", attraverso il quale vuole riportare alla luce il siculish, la lingua trasformativa parlata dalle comunità siciliane in America.   Cinquemani racconta la grande emigrazione siciliana e italiana di fine '800 attraver...

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di Liliana Rosano   New York se fosse un'opera teatrale sarebbe sicuramente il Faust di Goethe mentre il luogo teatrale per eccellenza della Grande Mela é la metropolitana. Viene dal teatro dei grandi nomi, Orietta Crispino, triestina di nascita, ma dal 2000 a New York. Dopo aver frequentato il Teatro Piccolo di Milano e lavorato con Giorgi...

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The year was 1945 and there was a newspaper strike, and former New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was reading the Dick Tracy comics on the radio. This weekend, veteran screen and stage actor Tony LoBianco will bring the city's 99th mayor back to life in his one man show called "The Little Flower," 1010 WINS' Carol D'Auria reported.  ...

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By Alex Newman   A Sicilian-American theatre company is bringing its inaugural production to Watertown, an original piece titled La Storia di Colapesce. Trinacria Theatre Company created the story during a four-week residency in Sicily; its cast of eight American theatre artists is using the production as a means of promoting Sicilian h...

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The new Broadway musical A Bronx Tale entered the studio this week to recorded the show's original cast album. Under the direction of four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks and Oscar winner Robert De Niro, the show, written by Chazz Palminteri, is based on his acclaimed solo show and subsequent 1993 film of the same name. A Bronx Tale is set against the...

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Authors and playwrights, comedians and filmmakers report regularly to the Staten Island's Italian-American franchise.Sometimes, the takeaway is funny and entertaining, as it was a few years back in Anthony Wilkinson's off Broadway romp "My Big Gay Italian Wedding." But a lot of the time, it's just stereotypes: Mob wives and made men, meatballs and...

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The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, in collaboration with Italian Artistic Director Valeria Orani from 369gradi (Italy) and Umanism (NY), has co-curated a new Italian translation, performance, and publishing initiative. Four plays were selected, in collaboration with an advisory committee, from a pool of recent winners of some of the most pres...

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