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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

AMESBURY -- The Amesbury Middle School's seventh grade White Team marked the 195th anniversary of the sinking of the whaleship, Essex, yesterday during a performance at the school. "I learned more ...

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.” ...

One of the world’s leading experts on shipbuilding history will be visiting Amesbury this week to discuss the city’s nautical roots and how one of the ships originally built here went on to become ...