John Turturro, in Italy, Breathes Life Into Folk Tales

NYTimes.com: "FROM a stony redoubt on a stage in the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, John Turturro smiles faintly and presses the palms of his hands together between his knees. Mr. Turturro — born in Queens, living in Brooklyn — is playing an unscrupulous innkeeper in “Fiabe italiane” (“Italian Folk Tales”), a powerfully imagined parable he also directs and has freely adapted from fables collected by Italo Calvino, Giambattista Basile and Giuseppe Pitrè."