We should vociferously applaud the decision to revive Italian playwright Eduardo De Filippo’s classic 1946 Neapolitan comedy (and arguably his magnum opus) for the Windsor stage, given that it was ...

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There's no trial scene in Filumena, Calgary Opera's new Canadian music drama about a pair of bootleggers who were hanged for killing an Alberta policeman in 1922. In a broad sense, however, the opera ...

Staged on a terracotta, plant-filled stage dominated by an orange tree whose limbs extend out towards the theatre's upper level, the production looks as handsome as Spiro makes it sound, and it's only ...

FILUMENA. By Eduardo de Filippo. Translated by Maria Tucci. With Tucci, Tony Amendola, Joe Grifasi, Mary Fogarty and others. Sets by Hugh Landwehr. Directed by James Naughton. At Theatre Four. AT ITS ...

What a curious piece this is. Eduardo De Filippo's 1946 play, later made into a film starring Sophia Loren, is part Neopolitan neorealism, part sex comedy, with a topping of Greek tragedy (or perhaps ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In the balmy heat of late ‘40s Naples, Filumena Marturano lies on her ...

In an inspired move, the National Arts Centre kicked off its Alberta Scene festival with a remount of Filumena by composer John Estacio and librettist John Murrell. The home-grown Alberta opera ...

A major success back in the 1970s for Joan Plowright in a Franco Zeffirelli staging that remains the stuff of legend, Filumena is most accurately described as a caprice, and one can imagine Italians ...

The heart lifts as you enter the Almeida auditorium. Robert Jones has come up with a beautiful courtyard garden design for Eduardo De Filippo’s good-hearted Filumena (1946), complete with a huge ...