The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare and Company

Sept. 28, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
With the summer season of Shakespeare plays over, the Founders’ Theatre has for the current production of Jeremy Paul’s “The Secret of Sherlock Holmes” been reconfigured into a proscenium-type theatre with stage spanning the back wall and audience seating replacing the thrust stage area.
Set designer Paulo Seixas’s [...]

Review of Antony and Cleopatria at Shakespeare and Company

Aug.3, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall.
Antony and Cleopatria playing for the rest of the summer at Shakespeare and Company has much going for it. Although one of the great tragedies and one that tends to be rarely produced, it is one of the most poetic with only some 70 prose lines among [...]

Review of Blue/Orange at Shakespeare and Company

July 21, 2007 performance reviewed by Frances Benn Hall
In “Blue/ Orange”, a three character all male play set in a British psychiatric hospital, playwright Joe Penhall gives us a penetrating look at social problems America also faces, without any real answers, today.

Malcolm Ingram, Le Roy McClain, and Jason Asprey in Blue/Orange at Shakespeare and Company, [...]