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Those who share a passion for Italy and the Italian language cannot miss the "Being Leonardo Da Vinci" Performance on Thursday, December 17, 2015, from 6:30 pm at the ACT Strand Theater (1127 Market St. San Francisco). Italian director and actor, Massimiliano Finazzer Flory will bring Leonardo da Vinci to life again on stage in a one-act, 60 minute...

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A New York lo si era già visto nei panni di un Marinetti provocatore e affabulatore. Ora torna con un Leonardo da Vinci che, in lingua rinascimentale, si fa intervistare da artisti e scienziati. Il milanese Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, regista, attore e drammaturgo sembra avere una passione per quelle intersezioni tra arte, scienza, tecnica e indus...

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Joe Piscopo rose to fame in the early 1980s when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live and began delivering his spot-on impersonations of Frank Sinatra, David Letterman, Bruce Springsteen, Jerry Lewis, Andy Rooney and many more celebrities. Now he's a morning host for AM 970 The Answer, a news and talk radio station based in New York, an...

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by Rafer Guzman   It sounds like the start of an old joke: A Jewish Long Islander and an Italian-American actor walk onto a movie set . . . Actually, it's a fair description of the making of "Friends and Romans," a new comedy about chronically typecast Italian-American actors who decide to showcase their talents by putting on a Shakespe...

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di Dodi Gatto   Niuiòrc Niuiòrc ritorna a New York. Sembra uno scioglilingua e invece è una promessa: In Scena! Winter riporta a Manhattan due spettacoli delle prime edizioni del Festival di Teatro Italiano esteso ai cinque distretti della città.   Fra questi il diario di viaggio di Francesco Foti, presentato nel 2013 alla Casa Italia...

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By Bethany Rickwald The New York City Center Encores! production of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella played the first of its seven scheduled performances last night.   The musical, which follows an Italian-American grape farmer living in Napa, California, and his long-distance love affair with a much younger woman living in San Francisc...

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Mother of 6, grandmother of 12, and now cabaret singer, TONIA TECCE sings the story of her life in A COCKEYED OPTIMIST Why We Believe The Songs of Richard Rodgers on Thursday, November 20 and Monday, November 24, both at 7:30PM at Curtis Institute of Music's Field Concert Hall (1726 Locust Street). Tickets at $25 each are available by calling 610-5...

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di Maurita Cardone  New York sta per aprirsi un intenso maggio di cultura e l'Italia farà la sua parte portando in città una ventata di teatro. Torna infatti per il quarto anno il Festival di teatro italiano In Scena!. Dal 2 al 16 maggio cinque compagnie sfileranno nei teatri e nelle istituzioni dei vari distretti di New York per raccontare l...

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Piccolo Theatre's production of "The Venetian Twins" features a madcap plot adapted by the Italian master Carlo Goldoni in 1747. Twins separated at birth turn up in Verona: one for an arranged marriage, the other to meet a girl who has run away from her family for him.   But the proverbial story behind this story is somewhat dramatic. Goldon...

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Over the past 15 years or so, visionary director Romeo Castellucci has blossomed into a star of Europe's theater festivals and prestigious institutions with largely plotless, large-scale shows that operate at a dizzyingly high conceptual and technical level, and are so abstract that they become strangely accessible (you can project anything onto th...

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