Casting call for Irish College play
The Pontifical Irish College in Rome will once again be staging a play on St Patrick's Day on 17 March next year. The performance will be an adaptation of Brian Friel's Making History, which tells the...
The Importance of Being Earnest
24-29 Oct. The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular farce, at Teatro Genesio in the Prati district.
Actors Rishad Noorani and...
25-30 Oct. The English Theatre of Rome presents The Belle of Amherst, by William Luce, in collaboration with John Cabot University's Italy Reads literature programme. Directed by Imogen Kutch with Gab...
19-29 Oct. Teatro India hosts dEVERSIVO, written, directed and interpreted by Eleonora Danco. The powerful play takes place in various rooms of a house, between night with day, conjuring scenes of str...
Il Teatro di Chris Thrope: Un progetto di Jacopo Gassmann
24-29 Oct. Jacopo Gassmann directs two Italian adaptations of plays by celebrated Manchester theatremaker and playwright Chris Thorpe at Teatro Palladium - Università Roma Tre, with the support of The...
14-29 Oct. The Italian version of Grease, the 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, celebrates its 20 anniversary with a production directed by Saverio Marconi. Starring Guglielmo Scilla with s...
Much Ado About Nothing at Globe Theatre
5-15 Oct. The four-month Shakespearean programme at Rome’s Silvano Toti Globe Theatre, under the artistic direction of popular Roman actor Gigi Proietti, ends on a high-note for Rome’s English speaker...
23 Sept-22 Oct. The 24th edition of Rome’s annual appointment with contemporary drama offers a selection of successful productions from international drama festivals and takes place in numerous venues...
English Theatre of Rome: Original Monologue show
1 Oct. The English Theatre of Rome presents As luck would have it, its annual original monologue show introducing new writings along with new and returning performing artists. This year they include M...
Charles Dickens: Imprisoning, Villainy & Italy
26 Sept. Readings from Pictures from Italy, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Shelleyʼs The Cenci, at Rome's Non-Catholic Cemetery on Tuesday 26 September from 18.00-19.00.The readings will be by...
Rome auditions for If Lear had a Lawyer
15-16 Sept. The English Theatre of Rome is holding auditions for Don Carroll's new play If Lear had a Lawyer, casting male and female actors, all races, aged 20s-80s, either English mother-tongue or s...
6 Sept. Tram Depot in Testaccio hosts a fun evening of threatrical improvisation on Wednesday 6 September. The audience will feature in the completely impromptu "jam session" which promises to be a "h...
7-17 Sept. Now in its 12th year, this daring initiative is born of a collaboration between festivals, embassies and cultural institutes, and is supported by regional authorities.
Under the titl...
Open-air theatre in Rome's Giardini degli Aranci
1 Sept. Theatrical performances and readings from Faust to Dante will take place in the magical setting of the Giardini degli Aranci, Rome's orange garden on the Aventine hill, on the evening of Frida...
Teatro India: Ritratto di una Nazione
11-16 Sept. The first part in a series of 20 theatrical productions from around Italy is staged by Teatro India as part of Ritratto di una Nazione (Portrait of a Nation). Under the theme L'Italia al l...
Shakespeare at Rome's Globe Theatre
22 June-15 Oct. This summer’s Shakespearean programme at Rome’s Silvano Toti Globe Theatre runs for four months and includes an English-language performance. The festival is once again under the artis...
Shakespeare in words and music
24-25 June. Rome's All Saints’ Anglican Church hosts Shakespeare in words and music, with music by Morley, Arne, Pearsall and others, an English-language play on Saturday 24 June at 17.30.
This is...
22-24 June. “30 actors: survivors of the desert, the sea and the theatre.” Marking World Refugee Day, this production highlights forced immigration and involves refugees belonging to Teatro in Fuga, t...
The American Dream & The Sandbox - a Tribute to Edward Albee
23-29 May. The Rome Savoyards/Plays in Rome present The American Dream & The Sandbox - a Tribute to Edward Albee.
The American Dream is a satire on American family life, concerning a married co...
English Theatre of Rome: Phalaris's Bull
3 May. The English Theatre of Rome presents Phalaris's Bull: Solving the Riddle of the Great Big World by and with Steven Freidman, directed by David Schweizer.
The one-night-only show, described...
