Arts - 8 Ottobre 2019 Versatile Actress Explores Mental Health, Sense of Home and Feminism in Her Art "The only thing that really stayed constant in my life was my passion for the stage. My mom said that before I was born I used to kick to the beat of the music they were listening to. I don't know if that's true, but I like to believe it is. I struggle a lot with my identity because wherever I am it feels like I am a little different than everyone. In New York, well it is also the same, except that there is no one kind of people to adjust to. You are not really supposed to feel like you are from anywhere in particular. I wouldn’t necessarily say that New York feels like home or that I am settled here, but it feels like I can be myself comfortably. " - Giorgia Valenti
Arts - 15 Giugno 2019 Pina Bausch, Making Life Dancing It would be difficult to imagine what the theater of dance, or theater tout court, of the last forty years would have been without the paradigmatic experience and creativity of Pina (Philippine) Bausch. Born in Solingen, Germany, on July 11, 1940, she passed away prematurely in Wuppertal on June 30, 2009 just when she was […]
Arts - 30 Aprile 2019 The Opening Night of In Scena! Leaves the Audience in Laughter and Tears Yesterday’s event featured short bits and monologues from a few of the plays that will perform in the following weeks as part of the festival. The performances included excerpts of As White as Fennel in a Salad with Andrea Ramosi, Spanker Machine with Michela Sale Musio, What Remains – on mobbing, shocking, and other amenities by Monica Faggiani, A Cottage of One’s Own with Natalia Magni, and A Passion, featuring Marco Vergani.
Arts - 11 Aprile 2019 When Love Disappoints You: “The Way We Get By” Francesca Ravera is starring in Neil LaBute’s “The Way We Get By,” adding to her interesting variety of New York theater and film credits over the past several years. Francesca portrays a young woman disappointed by love and overly susceptible to emotional traps following a drunken one-night stand. You can still see her in this acclaimed […]
Arts - 8 Febbraio 2019 “The Purgatory Trial of Vito Marcantonio”: A Play on the Progressive Politician The play opens on August 9th, 1954, the day of Marcantonio’s death. Though a Catholic, Marcantonio was denied a Catholic burial by New York’s extreme right-wing Cardinal Spellman, and thus the action of the play centers around an imagined plea by Marcantonio to be released from purgatory — the repository of souls that God assigned neither to heaven nor hell — and be allowed to ascend into heaven
Arts - 10 Gennaio 2019 The Divine Comedy: A Poem that Makes Students and Prisoners Recite Together What do a dozen inmates at the MacDougall-Walker maximum-security prison in Connecticut; a dozen Yale theology students; 140 children from Kibera, a neighborhood on Nairobi’s periphery and the largest slum in Africa; and 1,000 residents of Ravenna; all have in common? The fact that they all were able to accomplish a feat bordering on the […]
New York - 7 Dicembre 2018 In Scena!, the Italian Theater Festival, Comes Back to New York City Each year In Scena! presents a survey of the best Italian theater from Italy, in New York City. The festival features full productions that have already toured in Italy as well as readings of Italian plays in translation, conferences, lectures and exchanges between Italian and International artists. The goal is to promote greater awareness of Italian theater and Italian artists among New York theatergoers
Arts - 26 Novembre 2018 “Isabella Unmasked”: the Italian Commedia dell’Arte Is Coming to New York The play will explore the ins and outs of this theatric style through the lens of one actress, Isabella Andreini. It will be performed, free and open to the public, on Wednesday, November 28th, at 8:00 PM at the Dorothy Young Center for Performing Arts at Drew University, NJ; and Thursday, November 29th, at 6:30 PM at the NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò
Arts - 20 Maggio 2018 Dario D’Ambrosi Brings to the Scene the Discomfort of Mental Illness Forty years later the historic show Tutti Non Ci Sono/We are Not Alone comes back to New York to tell the loneliness and disorientation of patients left to their own devices, the dismay of the society unprepared to welcome them. Here’s our review of the show.
Arts - 19 Maggio 2018 Chiara Boscari and Marco Di Stefano from Milan to New York with The City Rises For the first time the Mario Fratti Award is given to a four-handed written script. We interviewed the young and promising authors Chiara Boscaro and Marco Di Stefano, awarded and already on stage in Italy and Europe, that will receive the award in New York on the closing night on InScena!