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Billy Budd, which as a novel is a skinny English Lit cousin of Moby Dick and as a play was drydocked after a brief Broadway run, finds itself as a beautiful, terrifying and heartbreaking film. The ...

It's good theatre, that has to be admitted, a night well spent. But just why, I can't figure out. If there's one thing that's the greatest bore in all the world of literature and drama, it's the theme ...

The house was full for this eagerly awaited new production of Billy Budd, featuring the “dream team” of Simon Keenlyside as the handsome, innocent Billy and John Tomlinson as the evil sadist Claggart, ...

“Billy in the Darbies,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2024. “Billy Budd, Sailor,” graphite drawing by Barry Moser, 2023. “The Death of John Claggart, Master-at-Arms,” woodcut by Barry Moser, 2023.

"Billy Budd," Herman Melville's unfinished allegory of innocence and guilt upon a British war ship, deeply examined and given some spiritual closure by composer Benjamin Britten and librettists E.M.

Peter Ustinov's production of Billy Budd is a near miss, and Ustinov, alas, is the culprit. The ubiquitous Mr U is to be commended for spearheading the noble effort to translate Herman Melville's ...