Carlotta Brentan News

Italian & American Playwrights Project announces fifteen video podcasts of new plays to be considered for NEW PLAYS FROM ITALY vol.4 will be online through December 1, 2020 at 11:59pm.

Theater for the New City presents a?' TNC a?oeOn The Air,a?? a live reading of Lockdown 2020 (Love & Corona) by Frank J. Avella (Vatican Falls, Lured, Consent, Orville Station) on Thursday, October 8th at 7PM. Frank's play, Orville Station inaugurated the Theater for the New City Facebook page's Live reading series back on April 15th.

Today (June 16) in live streaming: It's the Day of the Show Y'all is back, it's Christine Daae Day on Stars in the House and so much more!

Godforsaken will be performed via CyberTank, The Tank's remote, multidisciplinary variety arts gathering. Written by Frank J. Avella (Vatican Falls, Lured, Consent, Ganymede Revisited) and presented with Avella/Brentan TheatreMakers & Ashley Garrett as a Suggested Donation Benefit for Fair Fight, on behalf of The Tank

Audio publisher Fabler Audio has announced the lineup of its inaugural 'theater-for-your-ears' initiative: Fabler Files, a collection of original short-form audio plays by Italian and American playwrights. Six playwrights received commissions to create original audio plays on the theme of 'Togetherness.'

Today (May 26) in live streaming: Star Trek Voyager reunites, a new episode of It's the Day of the Show Y'all, and so much more!

On May 18, Kairos Italy Theater and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò held the online event KIT Intl playwrights series 2020 dedicated to Women in Comedy.

Kairos Italy Theater and KIT Italia together with NYU Casa Italiana announces a month of May celebration of In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY. 

Following its sold-out, world-premiere run at Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) in November 2018 and its successful bow in Rome, Italy via the OnStage! American Theater Festival in January 2019, Frank J. Avella's Lured was selected to play eight performances at the Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival in May 2020.

Planet Connections' starts out 2020 with 'DARK PLANET: Not Your Mother's Valentine's Day,' short plays unapologetically looking at life through a clever a?" albeit caustic a?" lens. Frank, Funny, Engaging, Engrossing, and Enlightening, Performing Thursdays & Fridays, February 6 a?" 21, at the Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 E 14th St, NYC. This event a?" celebrating the diversity of the performing arts & artists of NYC a?" will be accompanied by an opening night party and special Valentine's Day event.

It's hard to believe how much BUTTERFLIES manages to fit into a 90 minutes. This co-production by The Tank and Kairos Italy Theatre manages to deal with sisterhood, motherhood, bohemian versus traditional lifestyles, mental health, and terminal illness in less than two hours. It feels as rushed as you might expect - in some ways, this play is the epitome of the phrase, "That escalated quickly."

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY announces the cast and directors for the staged readings of Italian plays in translation which are being presented as part of In Scena! 2019.

The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) in association with Kairos Italy Theater will present the United States Premiere of Butterflies by Emanuele Aldrovandi in a translation by Carlotta Brentan

The seventh annual In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY will kick off on Monday, April 29 at 7pm at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo at NYU (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011) with the Opening Night Rainbow Jubilee, an international celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

Vatican Falls, Frank J. Avella's epic play set against the backdrop of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, will have a reading presentation on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7PM at Alchemical Studios, 104 W 14th St., (between 6th & 7th Avenues), NYC.

In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY announces Tobia Rossi's play Hide and Seek (Nascondino) as the 2019 Mario Fratti Award winner. The award ceremony will take place on Monday, May 13 at 6pm at the Italian Cultural Institute (686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021) where the reading of the translation of the play, made by the official translator of the award Carlotta Brentan, will be presented together with the award to playwright Tobia Rossi. Special mention goes to Ulisse-L'ultimo Inganno by Antonia Brancati in second place and third place goes to L'Annunciazione by Pasquale Faraco.

Vatican Falls, Frank J. Avella's epic play set against the backdrop of the Catholic sex abuse scandal, will have a reading presentation on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7PM at Alchemical Studios, 104 W 14th St., (between 6th & 7th Avenues), NYC.

LURED, a timely new play about of gay persecution in Russia, written by Frank J. Avella, will have a world premiere 3-week run at Theater for the New City (Crystal Field, Artistic Director) November 8-25, 2018. Following its New York run, the play will head to Europe where it was accepted into the Onstage! American Theater Festival in Rome, Italy, with performances there on January 25th& 26th2019. LUREDis co-directed by Mr. Avella and Carlotta Brentan. www.LuredThePlay.com

LURED, a brutal and honest depiction of gay persecution in Russia, written by Frank J. Avella, and co-directed by Carlotta Brentan, has announced three post-show events featuring respected human rights advocates and theatrical critics with in the LGBTQ community.