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.
The bigger they come, the harder they fall “The Lehman Trilogy” at the Ahmanson by Bondo Wyszpolski It would seem like a hard sell: a three-and-a-half hour play…