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SUMMARY:The Italian-American Playwrights Reading Series Part 4
DESCRIPTION:The Italian American Playwrights Series aims to spotlight authentic Italian American voices and stories that reflect the diverse experiences\, heritage\, and cultural intersections of the Italian American community. Five selected plays are given a public reading at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and at the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. \nFIVE DEGREES ABOVE POLARIS by Karen Howes\nWith Emanuele Secci\, Jacopo Costantini\, Giorgia Valenti\, Rosa Enginoli\, Davide Borella\, Julian AbelskampDirected by Laura Caparrotti\n \nSet in 1847\, “Five Degrees Above Polaris” is based on the true story of American astronomer\, Maria Mitchell. In this comedic play\, Miss Mitchell travels to Rome to confront the Vatican’s official astronomer\, Father Francesco De Vico\, when he is awarded a Gold Medal by the King of Denmark and credited with the discovery of a comet that was initially sighted by Maria.  Upon arriving at the Vatican Observatory with her Quaker cousin\, Maria finds herself in the midst of an Italian civil uprising against Austrian rule. While trying to make her mark as a respected scientist\, she is swept into a world of uppity Harvard professors\, romantic Italian revolutionaries\, and the dogma of Catholicism. But Maria is dead-set on getting the medal she rightly deserves\, steering her into unusual situations and discoveries that define her place in the world. \nKaren Howes is an award-winning playwright and lyricist whose works have been produced nationwide. Winner of the Bennett Prize for Best Comedy and the Mach33 New Science-Driven Play Award\, she writes with heart\, humor\, and intellect. Her plays have been finalists for over two dozen national competitions\, including the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Woodward/Newman Constellation Prize. \nOrganizers: Kairos Italy Theater\, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. The series is supported in part by UNICO-Broohaven.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/the-italian-american-playwrights-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies\, 25 W 43rd St\, New York\, 10036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Adele’s Daisy - Celebrating World Water Day
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with\nAIRIcerca New York Chapter\nKairos Italy Theater \nOn the occasion of\nWorld Water Day \nTheatrical Reading on Climate Change\nAdele’s Daisy\nExploring our future relationship with the planet’s most precious resource \nWritten by\nMarco Vignudelli \nPerformed by:\nLaura Caparrotti and Sonia Villani\, actors\nMusical accompaniment by Matteo Rini and Melissa Guardiola-Bijur \nIntroduced by\nPietro G. Mazzara\, AIRI \nFollowed by a panel discussion with:\nSergio Castellari\, INGV\nMichela Biasutti\, Columbia University\nLaura Caparrotti\, Artistic Director\, Kairos Italy Theater\nModerated by Alessandro Melis (New York Institute of Technology) \nIn ENGLISH \nIt’s 2055\, in the Po River delta of Italy\, where water has become rationed and privatized. The oppressed population includes “water thieves” struggling to survive in the parched landscape. \nThe story aims to transcend both indifference and catastrophism. Written by Marco Vignudelli in 2013\, with the scientific support of climate scientists Sergio Castellari and Carlo Cacciamani\, the script bridges scientific models with “emotional awareness\,” helping to feel the reality of a scientifically likely but politically avoidable future.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/adeles-daisy/
LOCATION:Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU\, 24 W 12 street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Program,Reading
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SUMMARY:The Italian-American Playwrights Reading Series Part 3
DESCRIPTION:The Italian American Playwrights Series aims to spotlight authentic Italian American voices and stories that reflect the diverse experiences\, heritage\, and cultural intersections of the Italian American community. Five selected plays are given a public reading at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and at the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. \nLOVING CRAZY by Theresa Carilli\nDirected by Emma Denson\nWith Julian Abelskamp\, Aislinn Cain\, Katie Broad and Alessia Secli\n\nA powerful exploration of sisterhood and mental illness through the lens of Italian American family dynamics\, this play examines how assimilation and cultural expectations shape identity and understanding within families.\n\nTheresa Carilli\, PhD\, is Professor Emerita of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Northwest. A prolific scholar and playwright\, she has edited numerous books on media and culture\, and her plays have been produced internationally. Her recent works include Performative Memoir and Intersectional Media: Representations of Marginalized Identities (Lexington Books\, 2021).\n \nLIFTING THE VEIL by Maria Brandt\nDirected by Debora Balardini\nWith Laura Caparrotti and Ayse Eldek\n\nWhen Silvana goes to confession to reconcile a rift with her granddaughter\, she is visited by the “ghost” of Jane Addams\, forcing her to confront what she’s forgotten through assimilation. The play reflects on memory\, loss\, and the immigrant experience.\n\nMaria Brandt is a writer\, playwright\, and educator whose work has appeared in Arts & Letters\, VIDA\, and Cleaver. Her collection New York Plays was produced by Out of Pocket Theatre\, and her novella All the Words won the Grassic Short Novel Prize. She teaches Creative Writing at Monroe Community College in Rochester\, NY. \nOrganizers: Kairos Italy Theater\, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. The series is supported in part by UNICO-Brookhaven.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/the-italian-american-playwrights-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies\, 25 W 43rd St\, New York\, 10036\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Stage! Letture Americane
DESCRIPTION:“Actually we’re Fucked” di Matt Williams\nTraduzione Claudia Zerilli*\nLunedì 9 marzo 2026\n19:30 – incontro con l’autore\na seguire lettura a cura di Gruppo della Creta\, regia Meghan Finn \nDue giovani coppie della Brooklyn “radical chic” conversano in modo cinico e divertente\, esplorando dinamiche di coppia e genitorialità. \nMatt Williams – Scrittore e produttore televisivo noto per Roseanne e Home Improvement\, autore di film come Where the Heart Is e What Women Want. Ha portato la sua esperienza televisiva in teatro con testi rappresentati a Broadway. \n*Traduzioni a cura di OnStage! Festival in collaborazione con Università Roma Tre\, Dipartimento di Lingue\, Letterature e Culture Straniere
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/on-stage-letture-americane-3/
LOCATION:Teatro Basilica\, Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni\, 10\,\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:On Stage! Letture Americane
DESCRIPTION:“Consenso” di Frank Avella\nTraduzione Donatella Codonesu\nLunedì 16 febbraio 2026\n19:30 – incontro con l’autore\na seguire lettura a cura di Gruppo della Creta \nIn una piccola città americana\, Seth\, diciassettenne\, affronta la propria omosessualità e il bullismo scolastico\, svelando inquietanti dettagli sul suo rapporto con l’insegnante di baseball. \nFrank J. Avella – Drammaturgo e sceneggiatore pluripremiato\, vincitore di numerosi premi internazionali. Ha scritto e diretto il film FIG JAM e opere teatrali tra cui Vatican Falls\, Lured e Iris.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/on-stage-letture-americane/
LOCATION:Teatro Basilica\, Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni\, 10\,\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:On Stage! Letture Americane
DESCRIPTION:“Battezzati fino al midollo” di Dave Johnson\nTraduzione Claudia Bedetta*\nLunedì 19 gennaio 2026\n19:30 – incontro con l’autore\na seguire lettura a cura di Fucina 0 \nAmbientata nel Sud degli Stati Uniti\, la divertente e dissacrante commedia affronta i conflitti tra fede e desiderio\, raccontando l’incontro tra un pastore protestante\, sua moglie e un giovane seducente alla ricerca di sponsor. \nDave Johnson – Poeta\, drammaturgo\, storico dell’arte e traduttore. Ha insegnato alla Yale University\, Cooper Union e Columbia University; è stato Poeta Residente per il New York City Department of Probation. Tra le sue opere teatrali\, Baptized to the Bone e Sister\, Cousin\, Aunt\, e traduzioni teatrali dall’italiano come Gomorrah e Super Santos. \n*Traduzioni a cura di OnStage! Festival in collaborazione con Università Roma Tre\, Dipartimento di Lingue\, Letterature e Culture Straniere
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/on-stage-letture-americane-2/
LOCATION:Teatro Basilica\, Piazza di Porta S. Giovanni\, 10\,\, Rome\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:The Italian-American Playwrights Series Part 2
DESCRIPTION:The Italian American Playwrights Series aims to spotlight authentic Italian American voices and stories that reflect the diverse experiences\, heritage\, and cultural intersections of the Italian American community. Five selected plays are given a public reading at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and at the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. \nTHE RULES by Domenick ScuderaA sharp\, funny\, and heartfelt drama about two estranged brothers-one a Long Island mechanic\, the other a successful drag performer-reunited for their mother’s funeral. Their car ride home becomes a reckoning with tradition\, masculinity\, and unconditional love. \nDomenick Scudera is a playwright\, director\, and performer based in Philadelphia. A Professor of Theater at Ursinus College\, he has written numerous plays produced across the United States. His work often explores queerness\, family\, and identity. Scudera was born and raised in Massapequa\, NY\, to Sicilian and Barese parents. \nThe reading is directed by Emma Denson. Actors: Julian Abelskamp and Giorgio Panetta. \nOrganizers: Kairos Italy Theater\, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. The series is supported in part by Unico-Brookhaven.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/italian-american-playwrights-series-part-2/
LOCATION:Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies\, 25 W 43rd St\, New York\, 10036\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:The Italian-American Playwrights Reading Series Part 1
DESCRIPTION:The Italian American Playwrights Series aims to spotlight authentic Italian American voices and stories that reflect the diverse experiences\, heritage\, and cultural intersections of the Italian American community. Five selected plays are given a public reading at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and at the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. \nAN ACCIDENTAL MURDER? by Diana Grillo\nThe hardships and prejudice of the Italian American experience\, and how it can erupt into violence. \n“An Accidental Murder?” is set in a small suburban town in New York. The year is 1965\, the day is March 7th\, or more importantly\, remembered as “Bloody Sunday.” While watching the movie Judgement at Nuremberg\, Margie is reminded of the horrors of prejudice and hatred during the holocaust. Then the movie is abruptly interrupted to show the visual images of peaceful marchers struggling to fight for dignity and equality while being met by government-sanctioned violence. Soon after\, the violence is intertwined in the everyday life of Mrs. Costa\, living with an abusive Italian husband\, tormented by the prejudice he has had to endure.  Margie becomes a witness to the violent abuse of Mrs. Costa.  “An Accidental Murder? Unmasks the hidden epidemic of domestic abuse and how\, at that time\, our lack of laws to protect the abused became societal-sanctioned cruelty. Domestic abuse causes lingering damage\, not only to the direct victim but to all the others in that person’s life who love them and try to protect them\, for they are the victims too. By the end of the play\, Margie has a moral dilemma to solve. \nOrganizers: Kairos Italy Theater\, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU and the Calandra Institute for Italian American Studies. The series is supported in part by UNICO-Brookhaven.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/the-italian-american-playwrights-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU\, 24 W 12 street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:"The Rules of Thirds" at the International Voices Project
DESCRIPTION:THE RULES OF THIRDS\nWritten by Marco De Simone\, \nTranslated by Caterina Nonis\, \nDirected by Patrizia Acerra  \nWinner of the 2026 In Scena! Playwright Award\nIn Partnership with In Scena!  \nSynopsis – The play is inspired by a real event recounted in the autobiography of Robert Capa. On the night between July 9 and 10\, 1943\, the renowned war photojournalist was welcomed into a farmer’s home\, along with some American soldiers sent to Sicily just before the Allied landing. Disregarding strict realism and overcoming obvious language barriers\, the author imagines a dialogue between Capa and the farmer\, highlighting the characters as symbols of two worlds meeting on the edge of the abyss opened by war. Two worlds far apart\, marked by different experiences\, intentions\, and perspectives—yet united by a shared reckoning with both war and life.Southeastern Sicilian hinterland\, at dawn on Saturday\, July 10\, 1943. A farmer welcomes war photojournalist Robert Capa into his farmhouse after he parachuted onto the island the night before the Allied landing. Their dialogue highlights the photographer’s strong personality and his wealth of anecdotes\, shaped by firsthand experience in war zones. In the background\, the farmer becomes the voice of the “thirds”—the vast mass of civilians who remain outsiders to the warring factions. Like the photographic rule suggests\, these individuals demand to be brought into focus to tell another story—their own—hidden beneath the Grand Historical Narrative. \nThe International Voices Project (IVP) champions the work of global playwrights by creating opportunities to experience new and contemporary international plays on Chicago stages. IVP debuts voices from the world’s stages through commissions\, translations\, and production. We collaborate with consulates\, cultural partners\, and universities throughout the Chicagoland area and partner with national and international theatres to promote global playwrights in their USA premieres.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/221248/
LOCATION:Istituto Cervantes of Chicago\, 31 W Ohio Street\, Chicago\, IL\, 60654\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:A Marxist in New York - A reading
DESCRIPTION:Part of the series\nPasolini: Politics & Poetry\nCurated by Ara H. Merjian and Mila Tenaglia\nOn the 50th anniversary of the death of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) \nStaged Reading\nA Marxist in New York\n\nConceived and directed by\nMarco Calvani\nWith\nMarco Calvani\nElisabetta D’Avenia\nDavide Borella\nIn collaboration with Kairos Italy Theater\nIn ENGLISH and ITALIAN \nBased on his conversations with Oriana Fallaci\, A Marxist in New York pays homage to Pasolini’s writing and his relationship with America on the 50th anniversary of his death.\nAbout the performers:\nMarco Calvani is an Italian-born awa​​rd-winning writer\, director\, producer and actor. Over the course of his twenty-year career as a theatermaker\, he has received commissions from the Phoenix Theatre of London\, Kunsthaus Tacheles of Berlin\, Théâtre de la Ville of Paris\, Grec Fundaciò of Barcelona and La MaMaTheatre of New York\, among others. His first feature film High Tide premiered at SXSW to critical acclaim (NY Times Critic’s Pick\, Top 25 films of 2024 for IndieWire\, GLAAD nomination for Best Feature Film) and features Brazilian star Marco Pigossi\, Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei and Tony-winner Bill Irwin. It was theatrically released in the U.S. by Strand Releasing. As an actor\, he co-stars in Tina Fey’s The Four Seasons (Netflix) playing opposite Oscar-nominees Steve Carell and Colman Domingo. The show will return for a second season in 2026. \nElisabetta D’Avenia is an Italian-born actor based in New York. She’s a daring all around-artist with an extensive movement background (in dance and acrobatics) and a passion for flawed and unpredictable characters. On stage\, she most recently starred as Chiara in Pulse (by Edu Diaz)\, within the Winter One Act Festival at the Chain Theatre\, and as Lina in the staged reading of Froci (by Frank J Avella) at The Tank and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’. On screen\, some of her latest credits include lead roles in the indie films Wrong Move and Baby\, both presented and awarded at several film festivals. \nDavide Borella\, originally from Milan\, lived in London and Paris before making New York his permanent home. His Theater credits include: Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo and Gabriele D’Annunzio’s L’Innocente (New York Italian Cultural institute)\, Julius Caesar\, A Hatful of Rain (42nd Street Theater)\, Stuck (The Access Theater)\, The Idylls of the King\, The Passion (Gad’s Hill Theater)\, Pushkin (The Arc Light Theater) The Italians of NY (The NY Historical Society)\, The Brazilian Women (The Schomburg Theater of Harlem). Film and TV: Law and Order\, The Sopranos\, As the World Turns\, Pan Am\, Billions\, Wu-Tang an American Saga\, Emily in Paris\, Life is Beautiful\, The Fallen\, The Pink Panther\, Somewhere\, Norman. \nCasa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò presents Pasolini: Politics & Poetry\, on the fiftieth anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death. The artist endures as a figure of controversy and contradiction\, yet this milestone demands more than commemoration: it calls for a critical interrogation of his literary and cinematic oeuvre—vast\, fractured\, and unruly—alongside the political and intellectual commitments that continue to resist facile categorization. Curated by Professor and author Ara H. Merjian and creative producer Mila Tenaglia\, the program runs from November 3 to 14 and pursues a multidisciplinary engagement with Pasolini’s work\, traversing the languages of music\, cinema\, theater\, and scholarly inquiry. Rather than merely honoring his legacy\, the initiative seeks to restore the vitality and provocation of his thought and poetics\, with particular attention to how contemporary artists and scholars have reinterpreted\, contested\, and claimed his intellectual and artistic inheritance. Pasolini: Politics & Poetry extends beyond screenings of Pasolini’s films—drawn from cinetecas\, the Criterion Collection\, and the Archivi Luce—to embrace works by directors and filmmakers who have discovered in his vision a wellspring for creative dialogue. This convergence of past and present positions the initiative not as a nostalgic ritual but as a living encounter with one of the twentieth century’s most formidable intellectuals\, enriched by performances\, a video installation exhibition\, conversations\, and academic interventions. Pasolini’s death—among the most notorious and contested episodes in Italian history—was not simply the murder of a homosexual man\, but an event in which politics\, literature\, and society collided in ways that remain unresolved.
URL:https://kitheater.org/event/a-marxist-in-new-york-a-reading/
LOCATION:Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo’ at NYU\, 24 W 12 street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading
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