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The multifaceted Italian artist Neri Marcorè (actor, dubber, imitator, TV presenter and singer) makes his New York debut with an evening dedicated to his region, the Marche. In a conversation with director Giorgio Van Straten, Marcorè will recall his entire career, from his first impersonations, to his acting performances, until his more recent successes as a singer. He will conclude with a short performance, following a discussion about the “Risorgi Marche” music festival and other projects aimed at bringing back life in the communities devastated by the 2016 earthquake.

An evening dedicated to Paolo Milano and Renato Poggioli, two Italian intellectuals instrumental in the development of a cultural dialogue between Italy and the United States, particularly in the fields of literature and comparative literature. 
Paolo Milano came to the United States in 1938 due to the racial laws and remained until 1957;  Renato Poggioli, a fervent antifascist, left Italy as well, in 1938, never to return, but maintaining strong bonds with his country of origins, so much so that he founded an Italian magazine called Inventatio (Inventory).

[Ugo Tognazzi: Tragedies of a Ridiculous Man]
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[Portrait of my Father by Maria Sole Tognazzi]
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When the United States entered World War II, it subjected Italian nationals living within its borders to legal restrictions and labeled them enemy aliens. Several thousand of these people and some U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings; hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on this injustice, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas’s Searching for Subversives (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) describes how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies that affected Italian residents.

n 2017, Teatro delle Albe started to follow an artistic path with the objective of transfering the Italian MASTERPIECE that triggered the start of the Italian language and literature - the Divine Comedy - to the stage. “Some had already tried to do that: we believe that the process does not have to do with the idea of MATCHING Dante’s cantos with scenery, but rather to dig out its intimate theatrical nature.

Introduced by director Paola Randi in conversation with journalist Silvia Bizio.

In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.

Followed by a Q&A with author André Aciman.

Isidoro, known to all as Easy is lonely and depressed. His career as a young go-cart driver was interrupted when he began to gain weight and could no longer fit into the car’s cockpit. He is suddenly forced to go live with his mother. One day his “brilliant” brother Filo, visits him and proposes him an enticing job offer. The job is simple and it’s meant to get Easy out of the house and back behind the wheel. Easy is to take a coffin from Italy to a small village in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine.