TuttoDante Everything About Dante is Benigni’s conflation of Dante’s Divine Comedy, the early-14th-century epic poem in which the hero journeys through the Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso seeking salvation. The bulk of the show is in English, with bits of Italian woven in.
Benigni has been performing TuttoDante around his native Italy and across Europe since 2006. In the States, he’s best known for co-writing, directing and starring in the tender Holocaust drama La Vita È Bella Life Is Beautiful, for which he won the 1999 Best Actor Academy Award and delivered one of the most effusive, acrobatic climbing over chairs! acceptance speeches in Oscar history.