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Longtime Cape Coral director Anne Palmer is starting a regular dinner-theater show at Cape Coral's Italian-American Club. Palmer's Sand Flea Players troupe will stage a new comedy or light drama every 1½ months at the downtown Cape club, she says. That could eventually change to once a month.   The first play takes place Saturday, May 1...

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If this were Naples, it would be champagne," purred Sophia Loren, gesturing to the glass of water by her blue velvet wingback chair.   Before she even took the stage, the evening's moderator, veteran show biz journalist Bill Harris, warned the crowd Saturday night at the historic St. George Theatre: "You're getting ready to see one of the mo...

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by Laura   Cinquant'anni fa Rugantino debuttava a Broadway. Dopo il successo del tour italiano, la commedia musicale italiana torna a NYC. Enrico Brignano interpreterà la maschera romanesca, sbruffone dal cuore tenero, accompagnato da 50 attori, ballerini e cantanti. Lo spettacolo, in italiano coi sottotitoli in inglese, si terrà presso...

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By Maurita Cardone Occhiali da sole, modi rozzi e sopra le righe, una voce rauca, quasi fastidiosa. É così che si presenta al pubblico de La MaMa il nevrotico generale, interpretato da Alessandro Renda, protagonista dello spettacolo Noise in the Waters (Rumore di acque il titolo italiano).   Conta i morti e lo fa con fastidio, con quella in...

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There's truth in advertising in "I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti," the one-woman show that opens the Hangar Theatre's 2016 season. Over the course of the play, we learn about the romantic misadventures of Brooklynite Giulia Melucci as she cooks bolognese sauce and makes pasta from scratch.   It's a nifty gimmick, impressive to watch, but i...

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  The last time we wrote about Rocco Deserto, his wedding party had just been photobombed by a giant plume of smoke.   Most of the time, Deserto’s life is not that eventful. The Xaverian High School alum and proud six-time college dropout spends his the bulk of days at a boring office job in Manhattan, and evenings with...

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Vic DiBitetto, a Brooklyn-born, Italian-American force of nature, brings his frenetic standup comedy to The Palladium Theater, 253 Fifth Ave. N., at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11, part of the "Mahaffey On the Move" series. Known for his 30-second viral video Bread and Milk, which is nearing 14 million views on YouTube, DiBitetto is currently on movi...

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by Stacey Rosenfeld   The first annual Cliffside Park Cultural Arts Festival, in conjunction with the Italian American Repertory Company, will be held Jan. 18, 2014, at the theater company's home base, the Trinity Episcopal Church.   The inaugural event will feature a broad array of art forms, including singers, actors, dancers, music...

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November 6, 2015. Friday 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (on various days). St. Stephen's Lutheran Church - 1301 North Broom Street - Wilmington, Delaware 19806 On a summer vacation, Margaret Johnson and her daughter, Clara, enjoy touring the Tuscan countryside. One day while sightseeing, Clara's hat mystically lands at the feet of Fabrizio...

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It's not exactly an everyday occurrence when two powerhouse directors combine to stage a big new Broadway musical, but the chemistry seems natural for the upcoming tuner based on Chazz Palminteri's A BRONX TALE.   After all, it was Jerry Zaks who directed the piece when it was an autobiographical solo play about an old Italian neighborhood,...

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