Tag Archives: Keely Baisden Knudsen

Christmas Presented

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“Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that,” begins Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, published in 1843. There is also no doubt whatever that, in 2022, this “ghostly little book,” as the author called it, has become a holiday staple of stage and screen. Perhaps the first record of a […]

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Scene Change

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Keely Baisden Knudsen and Stephanie Stiefel Williams had already named their fledgling company Legacy Theatre before they stumbled upon a real legacy in need of rescue. (more…)

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Unlikely Story

Pericles by Elm Shakespeare Company

If you stand for a minute or two near the tower at the back of the crowd during one of the Elm Shakespeare Company’s summer performances in Edgerton Park, your ears can make out a quiet barrage of spoken cues meant for other attentive ears among the crew. It’s one of the ways even those of […]

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House Keeping

Legacy Theatre artist's rendering

The old Puppet House Theatre a.k.a. Stony Creek Puppet House, which has stood for over a century at 128 Thimble Islands Road in Branford, is set to get a deserved makeover when it’s transformed into The Legacy Theatre. The renovation (see an artist’s rendering of the exterior above) is a reversal of fortune for the historical institution, […]

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