Come join us on Sunday August 11th for the House of Italy Lawn Program. Talented musicians Iris Moné and Dan Ochipinti will be performing starting at 2:00 pm. Sara Venneri will teach the traditional Pugliese dance, the Pizzica, which is a fun dance and easy to learn, starting at 3 pm. Mark Pelliccia, the House of […]

by Nobel-prize winner Dario FoIsabel, Three Sailing Ships, and a Con ArtistThis insightful, satirical, subversive comedy, set after and before 1492, revolves around the tragicomic deeds of an actor who is sentenced to death for having performed a banned play by Fernando de Rojas. The unfortunate actor, while on the gallows, is offered an opportunity […]

Lettere d’Isabella Andreini (1607) is a collection of fictional anonymous letters on love and other pertinent subjects written by Isabella Andreini (1562-1604), famed commedia dell’arte actress and manager of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, with her husband Francesco. Admired by distinguished patrons like Ferdinando I de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, and Christina of Lorraine, Andreini turned to writing to […]