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American literature’s most annoying classic was inspired by real-life events. Herman Melville based his epically digressive Moby-Dick on an 1820 incident in which a monster whale turned on a Nantucket ...

Shattered Globe Theatre launches its 24th season with the Midwest premiere of the nautical drama THE WHALESHIP ESSEX by Founding Ensemble Member Joe Forbrich, directed by Lou Contey, playing through ...

Not long ago, the venerable Shattered Globe Theatre Company was, like the endangered gray whale, staring extinction in the face. So to sit at Theatre Wit and watch this long-struggling but ...

Nov. 20, 1820: The Nantucket whaleship Essex was sunk by a massive sperm whale off the coast of South America — an infamous disaster that would inspire Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick.” ...

On Nov. 20, 1820, the first-ever recorded attack of a sperm whale sank a 238-ton Nantucket whaler deep in the South Pacific. Herman Melville used the loss of the ship Essex to the battering of the ...

For older readers, Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick describes a tale worthy of Ahab: on November 20, 1820, an angry sperm whale took vengeance on the ...

Shattered Globe Theatre today announced the first two productions in its upcoming 24th season. The first production, “The Whaleship Essex,” (Aug. 29 – October 11, 2014) is written by Shattered Globe ...

First came The Perfect Storm. That prompted another maelstrom: a downpour of books about survival and tragedy at sea. They ranged from the nail-biting saga of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton to a ...