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"The Inferno Project" written and directed by Lauren Reinhard and the Rapscallion Theatre Collective (2008)

http://www.theateronline.com/playbill.xzc?PK=17382

The beginnings of the story are familiar: a man disillusioned with his life enters a wood in search of something. What follows however, is all new, equal parts horror, humor and hope. Through the course of the play we follow Dante and Virgil out of the wood and through history as Dante struggles to find his voice and the story of his life in order to save it.

Following the concept of the play is its construction; Reinhard interweaves text from historical speeches and quotes from such notables as Malcolm X, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Thatcher, Sojourner Truth, and Martin Luther King, Jr. into her original script. The result is an accurate and heartbreaking look at America's past struggles and an equally hopeful look at its future.

Theater: Looking Glass Theatre
Address: 422 W 57th St
New York, NY 10019 Show Map
Phone: 212-307-9467
Location: (between 9th & 10th Avenues)

Open: 03/06/08
Close: 03/16/08
Schedule: Thurs-Sun March 6-9 and Thurs-Sun March 13-16
All performances at 8pm

Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, '08)

Posted on February 27, 2008

Frasier

http://www.insidepulsemedia.com/columnImages2006/image26335.jpg

In the fourth episode of the eighth season of Frasier (November 14, 2000), Frasier offers to tutor his boss on the finer things in life saying that he will be the Virgil to his boss's Dante.

Contributed by Charlie Russell-Schlesinger (Bowdoin, '08)

Posted on February 9, 2008

Auditions for Romeo Castellucci's "Divina Commedia" (2008)

http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2008/02/03/theater/03sell.html&tntemail0=y

http://klp.splinder.com/post/15424774

Posted on February 3, 2008

"Get Smart" TV series (1965-1970)

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--10103798/Get_Smart.htm

The pilot episode of "Get Smart" (1965) features agent Maxwell Smart trying to rescue one "Professor Dante" who has invented a weapon of mass destruction known as the "Inthermo." At the end of the episode it is revealed that Dante meant to name his invention the "Inferno." (Joe Henderson)

http://www.wouldyoubelieve.com/episodes.html#Season%201
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058805/

Contributed by Joe Henderson (Bowdoin, '10)

Posted on January 31, 2008

Studio Dante, Chelsea, NYC

http://www.studiodante.com/about/

Posted on January 30, 2008

Ethan Coen, writer, and Neil Pepe, director, "Almost an Evening" (plays) (2008)

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24479

"Like many of the Coen brothers' films, much of "Almost an Evening," nimbly directed by Neil Pepe, is touched by the premise that hell lurks right under the surface of, or just around the corner from, everyday life. Make that Hell, with a capital H, the same piece of real estate charted by Dante and Milton."

Ben Brantley, The New York Times, January 23, 2008
http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24479

Posted on January 23, 2008

"The Divine Reality Comedy" by the Bread & Puppet Theater

http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/bread.htm

"No Escape From Reality, Even for Magical Horses," by Claudia La Rocco
Dec. 1, 2007, The New York Times
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/theater/reviews/01divi.html?ex=1354165200&en=74674b2d400416c9&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Posted on December 14, 2007

The "D- Bomb" (Dante Bomb?), dropped by a Marching Band

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~themob/history/archives/TCU-00.htm

"Marching Owl Band Drops the D-Bomb on Todd Graham"

"TULSA, Okla. -- Tulsa has filed a formal complaint with Conference USA over the Rice marching band's performance of 'Todd Graham's Inferno' during halftime of Saturday's football game in Houston. Graham left Rice for Tulsa after just one season... The band's show depicted a search for the former Owls coach through different circles of Hell, based on Dante's Divine Comedy."

http://www.sundaymorningqb.com/story/2007/11/27/174948/40
November 27, 2007

Contributed by George Trone

Posted on December 2, 2007

"Going to Hell with Benigni"

http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2007/11_Novembre/30/benigni.shtml

"Actor brings Dante to TV screens but attacks Italian politicians before presenting Divine Comedy.

"MILAN -- Unlike Adriano Celentano, Roberto Benigni did not let Romano Prodi off the hook. Yesterday evening, the Tuscan comic spared no one, although most of his barbs, including the funniest ones, were directed at Silvio Berlusconi and the Centre-right. But there were also jibes at [foreign minister -- Trans.] Massimo D'Alema and [justice minister -- Trans.] Clemente Mastella."

By Maria Volpe, Corriere della sera.it, Nov. 30, 2007
http://www.corriere.it/english/articoli/2007/11_Novembre/30/benigni.shtml

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Posted on December 2, 2007

Martin Scorsese, "Cape Fear" (1991)

http://www.impawards.com/1991/cape_fear.html

In the film, Robert De Niro's character utters the line:
"I'm Virgil and I'm guidin' you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin' the principles of all three! Quote for me the American Bar Association's Rules of Professional Conduct, Canon Seven."
http://imdb.com/title/tt0101540/quotes

Contributed by Joe Henderson (Bowdoin, '10)

Posted on November 30, 2007