That Mark Antony was really a master manipulator.

Watching the statesman (Andrew Long) effortlessly work a crowd is one of the many joys of Shakespeare Theater’s Julius Caesar, now playing at Sidney Harman Hall. The company has finally found a production that, in the capable hands of director David Muse, befits the grandeur of the company’s massive new space.

Dan Kremer plays Caesar as an out-of-touch, ego-driven leader bound by superstition and plagued with bouts of cowardice. But as fans of the work know (or those who can think back to high school English class, anyway), while he may be the titular character, Caesar is much more about the fall out between the silver-tongued Antony and Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius.