Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers. Bang makes no attempt to pass herself off as a scholar of medieval Italian, and defends her unfamiliarity with ...

And the Rogue Theatre a very brave company. Baliani has adapted “Purgatorio,” the second part of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” for the stage. The Rogue’s season-ender is that adaptation. Read “Purgatorio” ...

The Tucson playwright’s adaptation of the middle canto of poet Dante Alighieri’s classic “Divine Comedy” has its world premiere on The Rogue Theatre stage, opening in previews today. It’s the vivid ...

So begins Purgatorio, the second part of the 14th-century poem La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy) by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy consists of three parts: hell, purgatory and heaven. Written ...

Today, the first day of Orthodox Lent, we start preparing for our journey through Dante’s Purgatorio, which commences on Ash Wednesday, the start of Western Lent. As I’ve been saying, you don’t have ...

“Purgatorio,” from Italian theater director Romeo Castellucci and the Societas Raffaello Sanzio theater company, is an experimental exploration of the meaning of suffering and forgiveness. The play, ...

Although “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri has inspired countless artistic creations, particularly of his “Inferno” canto, until recently no one had produced a prominent theater adaptation of the ...

Roscoe and I are enjoying this warm spring day, sitting on the back porch. He’s keeping the squirrel hordes at bay while I read and write. Dante wrote the Commedia as an exile from Florence, his home.

Dante’s Inferno celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. Not that there’s been any fireworks or cake. Visceral Games’ 2010 hack-and-slash, which saw a crusader named Dante battle through the nine ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Starring baritone Tyler Boque and soprano Nina Guo in the roles of the two ...