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Ethan Hawke and Charlie Cox's adaptation of a classic book flew under everyone's radar

This well-received TV adaptation of a classic novel stars the likes of Ethan Hawke and Charlie Cox, but most folks missed it ...
Chicago Tribune

Artist Wu Tsang’s ‘perfectly perverse’ adaptation of ‘Moby-Dick’ sets sail at the MCA

Unlike some American high schoolers, Wu Tsang avoided reading “Moby-Dick” in English class. She didn’t discover Herman Melville’s novel until adulthood, and even that encounter was mediated: she ...
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Kansas City musical theater company takes a novel approach to a classic book

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a book that was a flop when it was published 175 years ago, “Moby-Dick” has done all right for itself. The novel by Herman ...
The Washington Post

At the Met, a visually stunning ‘Moby-Dick’ surfaces but never goes deep

NEW YORK — On Monday, the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Jake Heggie’s “Moby-Dick” — the composer’s 2010 operatic adaptation of Herman Melville’s landmark 1851 novel. And to get ...
The Boston Globe

In ArtsEmerson’s ‘Moby Dick,’ puppetry in motion

It seems safe to say we’re in a golden age of puppetry. Newton’s Julie Taymor got the ball rolling in 1997 with her brilliant stage adaptation of “The Lion King” (which is still running on Broadway, ...