A Change in Ships: Moby-Dick Gets a Makeover

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Set designer Michael Yeargan — former Dallasite, Tony Award-winner, previous credits at the Dallas Opera and the Dallas Theater Center — is out for personal reasons. So to design all the rigging, planking and ship-sinking for its world premiere opera, Moby-Dick, the Dallas Opera has hired Tony nominee Robert Brill. best known for the Broadway revivals of Guys and Dolls and Cabaret.

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Jerome Weeks is the Senior Arts Reporter/Producer for KERA. Previously at The Dallas Morning News, he was the book columnist for 10 years and the drama critic for 10 years before that. His writing has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, American Theatre and Men’s Vogue magazines. View more about Jerome Weeks.