"In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY," New York City’s premiere festival of Italian theater, is back. Held in all five boroughs of NYC now through Monday, May 13, the festival features full—and free!—productions that have already toured around their native Italy, as well as readings of Italian plays in translation, lectures, and exchanges between Italian and International artists. (Yes, the bulk of events are in Italian, but with English subtitles.)
Among the calendar of shows, you’ll find SCIARA – PRIMA C’AGGHIORNA (the story of Francesca Serio, the first woman to denounce the mafia); THE GREAT MAGIC (a three-actor adaptation of the Eduardo De Filippo play); and THE VISIT (a tragicomic show inspired by the admission system for weekly meetings with inmates at the Poggioreale prison in Naples.)
The 11th anniversary season of the festival is hosted by The New York City-based Kairos Italy Theater along with Italy’s KIT Italia and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.