Theatre News and Reviews

John Turturro stars with Max Casella, Didi Conn and Aida Turturro in Theatre for a New Audience’s staging of Eduardo De Filippo’s Souls of Naples, starting Off-Broadway, April 2.

Roman Paska directs the American premiere of a new TFANA-commissioned translation of the work by Village Voice critic Michael Feingold. The show will officially open April 14 at The Duke on 42nd Street for a run currently slated through May 8.

The new translation of Eduardo De Filippo’s Questi Fantasmi! “is what would have resulted if Chekhov and Pirandello had sat down together to write the screenplay for a Bob Hope haunted house movie,” said translator Feingold in a release. The work set in 1946’s Naples, the story follows a down-on-his-luck married man who becomes caretaker of an old palace the is supposedly haunted.

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