And that’s exactly what Venice Little Theatre was when it first started in a warehouse at Venice Airport. (The company dropped "little” from its name in 2008.) Having worked with a wide range ...

“They offered me a couple of choices,” she says, “and then [artistic director Benny Sato Ambush] told me it was the very first play ever produced at Venice Little Theatre”—that’s how ...

“This is Venice Theatre’s origin story,” said Ambush. “It’s about members of the community who decide to create a little theater, and that’s what the community of Venice did in ...

A regatta of Venice painted by Canaletto around 1740. Scala, Florence His father, Gaetano Casanova, hailed originally from Parma before moving to Venice and joining a theater company in the 1720s.

The Hollywood star is the artistic director of this year’s event. He is using the opportunity to spotlight experimental ...