NEW YORK (Reuters) - A one-man show about Italian poet Dante Alighieri may not sound like a bundle of laughs but when the man doing it is Roberto Benigni, famous for his exuberant antics after winning ...

Roberto Benigni, the Italian actor and director most famous in this country for bouncing on the heads of Hollywood's elite at the 1999 Academy Awards, says he did not choose to do a solo show about ...

ROME — Roberto Benigni will make his U.S. stage debut with “Tutto Dante” (Everything About Dante), a one-man show in which the Italo multihyphenate recites and expounds on verse from Dante Alighieri’s ...

ROME — When he comes onstage, he resembles the Roberto Benigni whom Americans came to know in 1999, the one who hopscotched on the backs of the chairs at the Oscars to claim his prize for “Life Is ...

The Italian comic says he wants to start work on the project as soon as he finishes his television series "All Dante" in August. By Eric J. Lyman ROME — Roberto Benigni, best known as the creator of ...

When actor/director Roberto Benigni performed the last canto of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” on Italian television last year — nearly 30 percent of the country watched, and Dante’s books flew off ...

Ovazione per Benigni in Senato. Neanche l'ufficialità delle celebrazioni per i 750 anni della nascita di Dante tiene a freno l'esuberanza del regista e attore premio Oscar che inizia la sua ...

On the occasion of the celebrations for “Dantedi” (Dante’s day) in the presence of the President of the Republic of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, and the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini, Roberto ...