ROBERTO Benigni isn’t one to defy expectations. Speaking about his new one-man show, the voluble Italian lets loose an exuberant torrent of words in heavily accented English while barely pausing for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROME — On a balmy Friday night in May in a gigantic tent-theater pitched near Rome’s main courthouse, Roberto Benigni is reciting from Dante’s Divine Comedy, verbally waltzing through the Inferno’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

The atmosphere at Roberto Benigni's one-man show Tutto Dante ("Everything about Dante") was more akin to a football match than a night at the theatre. With tutti gli Italiani in the UK, it seemed, ...

When Italian actor-director Roberto Benigni got up on stage to accept his best actor Oscar for Life is Beautiful in 1998, he quoted lines of love from Dante. That tribute to his wife was part of a ...

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 ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian comic Roberto Benigni, best known for his Oscar-winning film "La vita e' bella" ("Life is Beautiful"), said on Monday he was considering bringing his theatrical act about ...