In ancient times, sailors once lashed themselves to their masts to avoid being lured to their deaths by seductive mermaids known as sirens. Today, on the sun-kissed western shores of Italy, mermaids ...

It’s rare that the audience is as entertaining as a musical production, but on Tuesday night at the Barn Theatre, dozens of little princesses in training roamed the aisles to catch bubbles and sang ...

“The mermaid symbolizes the beauty of Naples and of the Neapolitan woman: sensual, enchanting, passionate, loud and tougher than man. She’s bossy, commands and slaps,” says Vella. Neapolitans like to ...