The UFT Italian-American Committee Theatre Group

presents

A Dramatic Reading from Yesterday’s Sky

a novel by Angela Rago

performed by

Frizzi & Lazzi

Olde Time Italian-American Music and Theatre Company

Friday, March 26, 2010   4:15-7:30 p.m.

at UFT-HQ

52 Broadway, NYC

(please check w/ security for room)

Admission is free               Light Refreshments will be served

            The UFT Italian-American Committee celebrates Italian-American women during Women’s History Month 2009 with a reading from Angela Rago’s latest novel, Yesterday’s Sky by the Frizzi & Lazzi Theatre Company. The novel explores the daily lives of various Italian women in a small town in Southern Italy, how they struggle to survive, to improve their situations and harbor their dreams of emigrating to America.

            Angela Rago, born in Mola di Bari (Bari), Italy, has a Bachelor’s in Literature from Brooklyn College and pursued Advanced Studies in Italian Literature at NYU. She is an actress, playwright and artist. She has written and directed extensively for the Italian-American theatre. Her comedies, among them L’Amante Vedova, in the Molese dialect, played very successfully in Brooklyn and Manhattan. As an actress she played Shake's Mother in the film, Sleepers, and performed in several Italian Radio commercials and plays with the ICN Network, as well as voice-overs in Italian for the Children's Museum in New York.

            Dr. Emelise Aleandri is Chair of the UFT Theatre Committee and Artistic Director of Frizzi Lazzi. Her book, The Italian-American Immigrant Theatre of New York City (Arcadia), was presented at the UFT in 1999. She has produced and performed in numerous theatre productions at the UFT.

For further information call George Altomare: (212) 598 7771

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