Eduardo De Filippo News

Hostos Center for the Arts continues its partnership with Repertorio Español, the award-winning Spanish language theater company, with a performance of Filomena Marturano a?" Marriage Caribbean Style on Thursday, October 24, 7:00 PM in the Repertory Theater at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx. Directed by Leyma López, this is the first Spanish language production in the USA of the classic Neapolitan play written in 1946 by Eduardo De Filippo and features Repertorio veteran actors Zulema Charles as Filomena and Sandor Juan as Domingo. The play, suggested for mature audiences, is performed in Spanish with English Surtitles.

'Filomena Marturano - Marriage Caribbean Style' begins previews on Saturday, July 20th and premieres on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 at Repertorio Español's historic Gramercy Arts Theater located at 138 East 27th Street in Manhattan, New York.

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) in association with Kairos Italy Theater will present the United States Premiere of Butterflies by Emanuele Aldrovandi in a translation by Carlotta Brentan

The seventh annual In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY will kick off on Monday, April 29 at 7pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo at NYU (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011) with the Opening Night Rainbow Jubilee, an international celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

This fall, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College launches a partnership with North America's preeminent Shakespeare company, the Stratford Festival, involving the US premiere of historic and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, directed by genre-defying theatermaker Robert Lepage.  

This fall, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College launches a partnership with North America's preeminent Shakespeare company, the Stratford Festival, involving the US premiere of historic and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, directed by genre-defying theatermaker Robert Lepage.  

It is rare these days that I take my seat in a theatre to watch a play that I know almost nothing about. I was almost embarrassed to admit that fact about Eduardo De Filippo's NAPOLI MILIONARIA! Which is currently being performed in repertory at the Stratford Festival's Avon Theatre. Granted, the original was in Italian and this production, directed by the Festival's Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino, is the world premiere of the new translation by John Murrell (from a literal translation by Donato Santeramo). It was still not until I was reading the program liner notes that I knew more about this production than the brief synopsis offered on the Stratford Festival website. To my delight, I think this only enriched my experience as an audience member. The universality in a story that was written about a very specific time and place is nothing short of beautiful, and the performances have left me thinking about the play long after the final curtain.

Napoli Milionaria!, Eduardo De Filippo's comic masterpiece, begins previews today, marking its first Stratford presentation. Directed by Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino, the production opens on August 17 at the Avon Theatre.

Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino just announced key casting for the 2018 season of the Stratford Festival, including Seana McKenna as Julius Caesar, Andr Sills as Coriolanus, and Daren A. Herbert as Harold Hill, the 'Music Man.'

For the Stratford Festival's 2018 season, Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino has chosen 12 productions that explore the theme of Free Will.

Octagon Theatre Bolton has announced full casting for their forthcoming world premiere production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's new play Winter Hill.

Virginia Rep announces the opening of the Italian Classic, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, by Eduardo de Filippo on Friday, February 12. Set in Naples in 1959, Saturday, Sunday, Monday reflects three days in the lives of a postwar Italian family.

In Italy, theaters are under real estate pressure; their precious locations and spacious buildings are eagerly sought by developers who try to convert valued cultural assets into commercial buildings.  This clash of artistic idealism and commercial opportunism has been dramatized by Italian playwright Alberto Bassetti in 'Dealers of Souls,' a new play whose American premiere will be presented November 12 to 29 by Theater for the New City in collaboration with Kairos Italy Theatre.  It's a supernatural drama in which two men are negotiating the sale of an old theater. The buyer, a clearly corrupt theater entrepreneur, promises to restore it but actually, he intends to turn it into a supermarket. Can his intrigues be stymied by a strange actress who squats in the building, who seems to be part hobo and part phantom of the theater?  Can she save the day?

Italian realist playwright Carlotta Corradi was awarded the first Mario Fratti Award for Emerging Italian Playwrights on June 24 at the concluding event of the In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY, which was held at Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave. The award recognizes her new play, 'Via dei Capocci,' which was given a staged reading by the Festival the day before at Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue.

Do liars always win? Can you stand by the truth, even when it goes against your interests? These are the pressing questions of 'Born Liars,' the first show produced by italytheater. 'Born Liars' is an original and irresistible romantic comedy, which draws on the Neapolitan tradition. It will be on air from today, May 27th to June 14th, 2014 at the June Havoc Theatre in New York City, in mid-town Manhattan.

Do liars always win? Can you stand by the truth, even when it goes against your interests? These are the pressing questions of 'Born Liars,' the first show produced by italytheater. 'Born Liars' is an original and irresistible romantic comedy, which draws on the Neapolitan tradition. It will be on air from May 27th to June 14th, 2014 at the June Havoc Theatre in New York City, in mid-town Manhattan.

Kairos Italy Theater, the preeminent Italian theater company in NYC, will present its second In Scena! Italian Theater Festival (www.inscenany.com) in all five boroughs from June 9 to 24, 2014. The event will feature six full productions and four readings. Production highlights include 'Hanno tutti ragione' (Everybody's Right), performed by Iaia Forte, a leading actress in Paolo Sorrentino's film 'The Great Beauty' (Best Foreign Language Film, 2014 Academy Awards). The play is based on a book by Sorrentino. Other programming highlights include a series of plays and readings dealing with soccer, celebrating the 2014 Soccer World Cup.

Dal 2 al 6 aprile, al teatro Golden di Palermo andra in scena, per la prima volta in Sicilia: 'Fantasmi a Roma - Una favola Musicale', uno spettacolo nato da un'idea di Simona Patitucci e prodotta da Nota Preziosa insieme a Enpi Entertainment ed Artes. Le musiche originali di Massimo Sigillo Massara saranno eseguite dal vivo dalla Palermo Art Ensemble e dai SeiOttavi, per la regia di Fabrizio Angelini, testi di Gianfranco Vergoni. Fantasmi a Roma ha ottenuto dieci nomination al Premio Broadway World Awards in diverse categorie tra cui: Miglior spettacolo con musiche originali, miglior attore protagonista, Miglior attrice protagonista, Miglior regia/coreografia, Miglior direzione musicale ed altri. Il cast e composto da attori di fama nazionale come: Carlo Reali, Simona Patitucci, Renata Fusco, Cristian Ruiz, Toni Fornari, Giancarlo Teodori, Giacomo Buccheri, Gaia Bellunato, Emiliano Geppetti, Elisa Marangon, Vasco Giovannelli, Fabio Monti, Carlotta Maria Rondana e la partecipazione straordinaria di Gianfranco Jannuzzo, nel ruolo del narratore.

To celebrate their current Neapolitan comedy Napoli!, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) announced today a partnership with Union Square's Kuleto's Restaurant and Nespresso Boutique & Bar.