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....

di Maurita CardoneIl sogno di aprire a New York uno spazio teatrale che guardi all'italia Vittorio Capotorto lo coltiva da tempo. Da quando, nella seconda metà degli anni '90 arrivò dall'Italia con un bagaglio che conteneva una lunga esperienza come allievo di Eduardo De Filippo. Ora il sogno sta per realizzarsi.   Lo spazio è quello dei s...

"Visit To Relatives": è lo spettacolo di Aldo Nicolaj che sarà presentato il 5 marzo alle 18.30 all'Italian American Museum, New York.   La pièce, presentata da ItalyTheater e diretta da Vittorio Capotorto, racconta di un'esperienza umana ricca e collettiva dove lo spazio e i personaggi riflettono sul mondo che li circonda. Attraverso un per...

  WTI Magazine #31    2014 May, 22Author : Laurence Cantor      Translation by:   In July, 2013, Vittorio Capotorto, Founder and Artistic Director of italytheater and its parent organization, Teatromania, asked me to write a script that would best help a wide American audience to get to know the work of the great Italian playwright, actor and di...

by Bobbie Peer   Columbia Middle School students participated in a Pinocchio Workshop earlier this month given by Italian Director Vittorio Capotorto of Teatromania in New York City. Capotorto, who is the Creator of the Italian Theater Practicum at Columbia University, led the workshop along with his wife Maureen.   Students in Theres...

The Italian American Museum presents: Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio all'Italiana). Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles). Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Starring Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren and The Clause (La Clausola), Live "Monologue" Performance (English). Script by Aldo...

Italian American Museum Presents SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE Divorzio all'Italiana (Divorce Italian Style) - Film Screening (Italian with English Subtitles) - Directed by Pietro Germi - Starring Marcello Mastroianni   and L'Uomo del Sud (The Man From the South) "Man From the South" "Because I'm m...

Dec 4th, 2013 - 8:00 PM - Theatre 80 St. Marks Place, NYC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND0Sbc-v-C8   Dear Friends, We are happy to invite you to partake in the launching of italytheater and its first show, Born Liars. The show, written by Laurence Cantor and directed by Vittorio Capotorto, will begin airing in April 2014 in NYC.&nb...

italytime, a 'daughter' of Teatromania, is an international not-for-profit platform conceived by Vittorio Capotorto and Francesco Pagano, and launched in December 2013, with the endorsement of world-known writers Dacia Maraini and Roberto Saviano. Teatromania, the 'mother' not-for-profit organization of italytime – 501(c)(3) – was created in 1...

by Vittorio Capotorto and Francesco Pagano   It all started in December 2013. Our Team had very little money, but also a lot of great friends, some extraordinary artistic material and one bold ambition: to create the first permanent 'Casa Teatrale Italiana' in NYC, where the best of Italian Theater and the power of live performances wou...