The Maltese Falcon

“‘The Maltese Falcon’ is a classic piece of detective fiction, and Borgers’s adaptation closely follows the text from the original novel. The Butterfield 8 troupe does an excellent job bringing the story to life.”

– FEBRUARY 18, 2014 BY ELIZABETH WARNIMONT

“Memories of the oft-viewed Bogart version of the story linger for about three seconds as Dashiell Hammett’s ‘The Maltese Falcon’ comes to life on the Butterfield 8 stage. The theatrical version is based more on the book than the movie was — it’s rougher, grittier and, in many ways, more realistic than the film. And the characters are nothing like you’ve seen in ‘The Maltese Falcon’. There’s an excellent cast here, and it has done its job and created new characterizations of these familiar people — Sam Spade, Effie Perine, Brigid O’Shaughnessy and, of course, sweet-scented Joel Cairo and the fat man (not so fat here), Kasper Gutman.”

– By MEDIANEWS and PAT CRAIG PUBLISHED: February 21, 2014