The first two screenings are gone, lots of people, lots of laughs... don't miss the rest of the Toto's Events:Monday October 29th

6 PM Opening of the exhibit A Prince Named Toto'

with the extraordinary participation of F. MURRAY ABRAHAM

followed by the screening of Are We Men or Corporals? (Siamo Uomini o Caporali?)


Thursday November 15th

5 PM A Neapolitan Turk (Un Turco Napoletano)

7 PM Destination Piovarolo (Destinazione Piovarolo)


Tuesday November 20th

6 PM Show: Totò's Poetry in Words and Music with L. Caparrotti

followed by the screening of the documentary You don't know who Toto' is


All events are at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo' at NYU (24 W 12th Street) and they are Free!

Fra Napoli e New York, Le macchiette di Migliaccio. Book presentation by the author Professor Hermann Haller plus live performance by KIT.


Tra Napoli and New York takes a look at the vibrant and comical repertoire of Neapolitan theater present in New York during the wave of Italian immigration of the early 20th century. Migliaccio's macchiette, or stereotypical characters, shed light on the linguistic and cultural realities of the Italian immigrant communities in New York and other cities throughout the world.


Hermann Haller is the Chair of the Department of European Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Italian at Queens College and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Monday December 3rd - Sets at 7:30 & 9:30


Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Frederick P. Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 60th Street - 5th Floor).

Tuesday December 4th - 9 PM: Kairos Italy Theater presents the US Première of Accattone in jazz based on the screenplay by Pier Paolo Pasolini. With Valerio Mastandrea, Roberto Gatto, Danilo Rea.


Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center (165 West 65th Street, between Broadway and Amsterdam Plaza Level, NYC).


Pier Paolo Pasolini's celebrated screenplay for Accattone is revisited by Italian movie star Valerio Mastandrea, as he weaves a unique interplay of words and music together with Italian jazz legends and longtime collaborators Roberto Gatto and Danilo Rea, winner of Europe's most important jazz award, the Golden Django.


Accattone in Jazz marks the closing night of the wider celebration Pier Paolo Pasolini Poet of Ashes organized in New York by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York and The Fondazione Aida.

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