IN SCENA! Celebrates 10 Years With Two Italian Shows At Hall Of Nations
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY celebrates its 10th anniversary with two Italian shows at Hall of Nations. The festival will also be held in San Diego, Santa Rosa, Calgary, and Lethbridge from October 27 to November 5, 2023. The festival aims to promote Italian theater and build a bridge between the artistic scenes in Italy and the US. For more information, visit www.inscenany.com.
Carlotta Corradi Receives First Mario Fratti Award for Emerging Italian Playwrights
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.
Kairos Italy Theater to Hold 2nd In Scena! Italian Theater Festival, 6/9-24
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.