Ken Ludwig's Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery                                                                                                              

Old Globe Theatre - West Coast Premiere

By Ken Ludwig

Josh Rhodes - director

Shirley Pierson - costume design Wilson Chin - scenic design   Austin R. Smith - lighting design Bart Fasbender- sound design

Reviews:

"...Shirley Pierson’s costumes are a triumph of ingenuity.  ...the performances are inspired. Morton (who starred on Broadway as Boy George in “Taboo”) makes for an elegant and fastidious Holmes, … Ally is admirably deadpan as the steadfast Watson, … And Kober, Segal and Wisan are wonders of ever-shifting identity: Texan good ol’ boy, Gothic matron with a scary unibrow, butterfly-chasing fop, chirpy femme fatale. ...."  James Hebert / SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE 

"Hitting an out-of-the-park home run is costume designer Shirley Pierson, who goes far beyond magnifying glass, pipe and deerstalker hat with a boatload of costume changes, many of which take place right before your eyes." Lynne Freidmann / CULTURE VULTURE

"With popping props, quick-change highly inventive costumes, twinkling web-encrusted chandeliers, and miniature black row houses that circumvent the in-the-round stage, this is also one of the most creative design teams around (Wilson Chin, sets; Austin R. Smith, lights; Shirley Pierson, costumes; Bart Fasbender, sound)." Tony Frankel / STAGE AND CINEMA

"With five, or if you take Holmes and Watson out of the equation, three actors play over 40 characters that range in diversity from servants to train conductors to damsels in distress to street urchins to some odd looking couples right out of a Munster movie.

Thanks to Shirley Pierson’s eclectic costume designs, they are as interesting as are the characters themselves, and as telling."  Carol Davis / EXAMINER.COM