'A Soldier's Play' dissects WWII racial tension in America that's still unresolved – People's World

LOS ANGELES — An enlisted man strikes out at his commanding officer during wartime and is promptly sent to the brig. The charge is mutiny. This may sound like the germ of Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, memorably turned into an all-male opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by the Eng...

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