American Vengeance” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum sees “a whole new level of vengefulness” in Trump’s second term.

Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much... Was Captain Ahab Ahead of His Time? Is it possible?

Obsession, sea salt, bloodlust and a really annoying whale – that is my synopsis of “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville. Crooked and bent over a carnal thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab leads the crew of ...

In the New York Times, Charles M. Blow equates the Republican Party’s efforts to stall President Obama’s economic progress to Herman Melville’s iconic revenge-seeking Captain Ahab, who engaged in a ...

Last summer, MORE Theater/S.B., a site-specific drama company devised by artistic director Meg Kruszewska, premiered their first production: Part I of The Whalers’ Triptych. This trio of dramatic ...

The work, which had its premiere in Dallas in 2010, is set in the nautical world of the whaling ship, Pequod, and tells the tale about the obsession of its Captain Ahab to destroy the great white ...

When a ship at sea has sprung a serious leak, the menu items for tomorrow or repainting the handrailings instantly lose their importance. At that point, the only truly critical matter is diagnosing ...