Season Spring 2022

June 10, 11

REMINISCENCE

“Reminiscence is a community-based performance project exploring the experience of international women living in New York City. Investigating themes of language, cultural expression, and familial separation, this story invites audiences to consider what it means to exist between two places called “home.””

Season Winter 2019

March 1, 2

AH, LOVE!

“The three works we present here have in common the universal argument of love seen from different angles, but always with the intention to understand, to question ourselves, and to represent a couple or a trio in crisis from the beginning or from the end of an unexpected and unpredictable love story.”

Season Winter 2018

March 2, 3, 8, 9, 10

THREE EYES ON PINOCCHIO

“Pinocchio is a story that never grows old! Why? Because it is exploring universal, real life, and timeless issues. It is a meditation on the meaning of Love, Truth, and Childhood. This play is a project of love and passion for a story that changed all our lives and will change the lives of our children for centuries to come.”

Season Spring 2017

February 25

A PROVINCIAL PAINTER

“The conflictual relationship between Rosa and her father, Italian American characters based in today’s Pennsylvania. While her pursuit of becoming a professional painter is questioned by the father first, he will secretly help his daughter to be in her first show in a New York gallery. Eventually, she will suffer his pressure to paint more for money.”

Season Spring 2016

April 28 – 29 – 30

CABARET OPERA

“The Director of a theater that is being restored organizes an important concert with a prominent pianist and a famous opera singer after 15 years.
The Director doesn’t have enough money to pay their fee.
So, he’ll sell, without his wife’s knowledge, a precious Chinese vase he gave her as a gift. The artists threaten not to finish the concert and start fighting about their stormy past. Love, hate and business: an amusing settling of scores through opera tunes.”

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Season Winter 2016

February 9

CINEMA & THEATER

Italytime and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute are pleased to sponsor this new venture of marrying cinema and theater this spring semester. This pairing of cinema and theater is the brainchild of Italytime, the notion that both creative formats share the common goal of representing life’s experiences on both the live stage and on the silver screen.
February 9, 6:00 PM, Italytime and the Calandra Institute will screen Bob Giraldi’s critically acclaimed film, Dinner Rush (2001). The film will be followed by a one-act play “Five Years Later” by Paolo Tartamella (15 min.), inspired by Dinner Rush; father and son clash on the future of their relationship. The actors are Fulvio Della Volta (son) and David Donahoe (father), directed by Vittorio Capotorto.

Tickets are free with ONLINE RESERVATION
Location: 238 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014

Season Fall 2015

December 18 & 19

NATIVITY IN THE CITY
A Christmas Tale in New York

Mary is pregnant. Joseph disowns the baby and wants to leave Mary, but the DNA test confirms his paternity. A mysterious and fascinating story that Gabriel will change for the better of humanity.

Don’t miss the complimentary refreshments with authentic Italian wine.

Ticket is $20; Seniors and Students with ID, $10
Location:Blessed Sacrament Theater
152 West 71st street, New York, NY 10023
(between Columbus and Broadway)
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December 11 & 12

NATIVITY IN THE CITY
A Christmas Tale in New York

Mary is pregnant. Joseph disowns the baby and wants to leave Mary, but the DNA test confirms his paternity. A mysterious and fascinating story that Gabriel will change for the better of humanity.

Don’t miss the complimentary refreshments with authentic Italian wine.

Ticket is $25; Seniors and Students with ID, $15
Location: 238 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014
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October 16 & 17
November 6 & 7

PERFORMANCES IN COLOR

Dancing, acting, and singing inspire a live painter to create a painting… for you?

The painting created in front of your eyes, during a series of live performances that the painter has not been prepared for, will then be auctioned on stage!

Don’t miss the complimentary refreshments with authentic Italian food and wine.

Ticket is $25; Seniors and Students with ID, $15
Location: 238 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10014

May 15 & 16

INCREDIBLE STORIES

The relative-spectator is led into a social and human, rich and multiform “journey” where the space and the characters’ funny and terrifying stories compel him or her to reflect on a world concerning all of us.