Monique Gaffney and Christopher Salazar Lead 2015 Globe for All Tour of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Beginning Tonight

The Old Globe's GLOBE FOR ALL returns to bring free professional Shakespeare directly to diverse, multigenerational audiences in underserved communities around San Diego County. This second year of GLOBE FOR ALL follows a highly successful inaugural production in 2014. One of the Bard's most charming comedies, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, will be directed by renowned Shakespearean Rob Melrose, Artistic Director of San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater, who makes his Globe debut. He directs a cast of local professional actors, including recent graduates of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program.

The GLOBE FOR ALL free Shakespeare tour will begin tonight, November 10 and will culminate in four low-cost performances on November 21 and 22 in the Globe's rehearsal halls, part of Balboa Park's historic House of Charm.

GLOBE FOR ALL helps make theatre matter to audiences who, for whatever reason, do not enjoy regular access to the professional performing arts. The tour visits locations as varied as military bases, recreation centers, libraries, centers for the elderly, homeless shelters, and correctional facilities. With production values scaled to non-theatrical venues such as gymnasiums, cafeterias, and multipurpose rooms, the tour gives audiences an intimate, up-close, and visceral experience of live performance and fosters a shared sense of community between performer and spectator. For some, the GLOBE FOR ALL tour is their first experience seeing a piece of live theatre, and for others, it is an exciting return to the art form. In addition to providing the community with free access to professional performances of Shakespeare, GLOBE FOR ALL enriches the theatre experience by offering free workshops and other activities. Many of our community performances will feature a mask-making workshop at the venue one hour prior to the performance; these masks will be incorporated into the show, making audiences a part of the action.

Venues for the 2015 tour include South Bay Community Services at Castle Park Elementary School; Chaldean and Middle-Eastern Social Services at St. Michael Chaldean Catholic Church; Veteran's Village of San Diego; Fourth District Seniors Resource Center at the George L. Stevens Senior Center; Valencia Park/Malcolm X Library; San Diego Central Library; Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation; Las Colinas Detention Facility; Naval Base San Diego; California State Prison, Centinela; and Father Joe's Villages.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING is one of Shakespeare's most popular and charming comedies. Soldiers return victorious from battle, their sights now set on the peacetime pleasures of love and merrymaking. But for Shakespeare's wittiest couple, Beatrice and Benedick, romance is a "merry war" all its own, and their clever barbs protect their wary hearts.

The cast includes local actors and GLOBE FOR ALL returnees Monique Gaffney (Beatrice, Sexton) and Christopher Salazar (Benedick, 1st Watchman), also a graduate of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program; recent Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program graduates Lindsay Brill (Margaret, Verges, Friar Francis), Charlotte Bydwell (Hero), Lowell Byers (Don John, Dogberry, Antonio, Messenger), Jamal Douglas (Claudio, 2nd Watchman), Tyler Kent (Don Pedro, Conrade), and Patrick Zeller (Leonato, Borachio, Balthazar); and two local musicians, Mark Danisovszky and Clinton Davis.

The creative staff includes Robin Sanford Roberts (Scenic Design), Charlotte Devaux (Costume Design), Clinton Davis (Original Music, Music Director), and Diana Moser (Production Stage Manager).

2014's inaugural production of GLOBE FOR ALL performed in homeless shelters, centers for the elderly, military bases, prisons, and other community venues for nearly 900 audience members who face obstacles coming to the Globe's theatres. After a performance at Centinela State Prison, one inmate said, "How amazing it is that we who seem so easily overlooked can be given such a pleasure." In addition to its eight community stops, GLOBE FOR ALL also played three low-cost performances at the Globe. This year, the tour is returning to many of these same venues, with several new and vital communities added to the roster.

"Since my arrival in San Diego I've looked for ways to share the wonders of The Old Globe with more and more of our city, and I was thrilled at the great success and enormous impact of last year's inaugural GLOBE FOR ALL tour," said Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. "It's our core conviction that theatre in general, and Shakespeare in particular, are necessary to living a full and rich life, and yet we recognize that some in our city either don't know about the work we do or cannot enjoy regular access to it. It is therefore our obligation to help overcome whatever barriers-economic, geographical, and cultural-stand between us and the widest possible cross section of our city. GLOBE FOR ALL is an exciting way to bring the joys and thrills of live, professional Shakespeare to San Diegans who may not have experienced them before. We are grateful to the community-based organizations that are partnering with us and to the civic-minded philanthropies that are supporting this effort. Together, we can make theatre matter to many more of our fellow citizens."

Southeastern San Diego, home of the Globe's Technical Center, is one of the key areas served by GLOBE FOR ALL. When the Globe Technical Center began operations there in 2008, the Globe began extensive outreach into the surrounding neighborhoods and deepened relationships with community organizations including the Jackie Robinson YMCA, Writerz Blok, the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, Lincoln High School, San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts, Freese Elementary, and other local schools, St. Stephen's Church, and other organizations. The James Irvine Foundation, Legler Benbough Foundation, and San Diego Foundation were major supporters of this earlier initiative, The Globe Residency Project. Highlights included productions of Kingdom, an award-winning musical about the cycle of gang violence, and Welcome to Arroyo's, about the birth of hip hop, performed at both Lincoln High School and The Old Globe; the world premiere of Odyssey, a musical event that featured over 200 community members performing alongside professional actors; and Emancipated, a one-act play by and about young people who had "aged out" of the foster care system. The GLOBE FOR ALL community Shakespeare tour reinforces the theatre's ongoing commitment to serving residents of Southeastern San Diego and reaching other local communities.

GLOBE FOR ALL will be presented in Southeastern San Diego with free public performances at George L. Stevens Senior Center on Friday, November 13 at 1:30 p.m. (570 S 65th St.; mask-making workshop at 12:00 noon; FDSRC Seasoned Line Dancers at 1:00 p.m.); Valencia Park/Malcolm X Public Library on Saturday, November 14 at 3:00 p.m. (5148 Market St.; mask-making workshop at 2:00 p.m.); and Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation Celebration Hall on Sunday, November 15 at 6:00 p.m. (404 Euclid Ave.; refreshments and mask-making workshop at 5:00 p.m.). The fourth free public performance in the community will be at the San Diego Public Library - Central Branch's Joan ? Irwin Jacobs Common on Sunday, November 15 at 1:00 p.m. (Shiley Special Events Suite, 330 Park Blvd.; call (619) 236-5800 for more info; mask-making workshop at 12:00 p.m.).

In addition to these free public performances, the GLOBE FOR ALL tour will be performed for:

- South Bay Community Services (Chula Vista Promise Neighborhood) on Tuesday, November 10 at 6:45 p.m.

- Chaldean and Middle-Eastern Social Services on Wednesday, November 11 at 6:15 p.m.

- Veterans Village of San Diego on Thursday, November 12 at 7:00 p.m.

- Las Colinas Detention and Reentry Facility, Santee on Tuesday, November 17 at
7:00 p.m.

- Sailors and families at Naval Base San Diego on Wednesday, November 18 at 6:00 p.m.

- California State Prison, Centinela on Thursday, November 19 at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.

- Father Joe's Villages on Friday, November 20 at 7:00 p.m.

The tour culminates with four low-cost performances offered in the Globe's House of Charm Festival Theatre Rehearsal Room on Saturday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, November 22 at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. These performances will be open to the public. Tickets are $10 and are currently available to subscribers only. Tickets will go on sale to the general public, subject to availability, on Tuesday, October 28.

Organizations interested in partnering with The Old Globe and GLOBE FOR ALL in the future should contact Karen Ann Daniels, Community Outreach Manager, at kdaniels@TheOldGlobe.org or call (619) 231-1941 x2105.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Rob Melrose (Director) is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of The Cutting Ball Theater. He has directed Pericles, The Prince of Tyre (The Public Theater), Happy Days, Pen, Freud's Last Session, and Julius Caesar with The Acting Company (Guthrie Theater), Troilus and Cressida in association with The Public Theater (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), the world premiere of An Accident (Magic Theatre), Happy Days (PlayMakers Repertory Company), the world premiere of The Creature (Black Box Theatre, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle for Stage Direction), Hedda Gabler (The Actors Collective), and shows at The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, and Crowded Fire Theater, among others. His selected directing credits at Cutting Ball include The Tempest; The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, As You Like It, Hamletmachine, Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep, Pelleas & Melisande, the world premiere of Krispy Kritters in the Scarlett Night, Will Eno's Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays, The Bald Soprano, Victims of Duty, the world premiere of Bone to Pick and Diadem, Endgame, and Krapp's Last Tape. His translations of Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, Pelleas & Melisande, and Communiqué n? 10 have been published by EXIT Press. His rock musical Ozma of Oz was workshopped as a part of Bay Area Playwrights Festival. He received a B.A. in English and Theater from Princeton University and an M.F.A. in Directing from Yale University School of Drama. He has taught at Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Rhode Island, and Marin Academy.

Lindsay Brill (Margaret, Verges, Friar Francis) has appeared at The Old Globe as Nell in The Comedy of Errors directed by Scott Ellis and Mopsa in The Winter's Tale directed by Barry Edelstein, and she covered and performed the roles of Maria in Twelfth Night and Lucetta in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. She was also featured in The Last Match in the Globe's New Voices Festival. With the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program, Brill appeared as Antonia and Verges in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Pooty in Reckless, Imogen in Trelawny of the "Wells", and Bawd in Pericles, Prince of Tyre. In New York, Brill has performed at Theatre Row, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, and The Actors Studio. She recently performed her one-woman show, Third Period and shot the web series "Annie and Brie." Brill holds a B.A. in Theatre from Washington University and an M.F.A. in Theatre from The Old Globe/USD.

Charlotte Bydwell (Hero) was last seen on The Old Globe's outdoor stage in productions of The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Othello. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and began her career as a dancer with Monica Bill Barnes Company and Keigwin + Company, performing at Jacob's Pillow Dance, American Dance Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Joyce Theater. As a member of the resident acting company at The Flea Theater she appeared in Sean Graney's highly acclaimed These Seven Sicknesses directed by Ed Iskandar. At the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival, she appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest directed by David Hyde Pierce and A Month in the Country directed by Richard Nelson. Her one-woman show, Woman of Leisure and Panic, debuted in the eighth-annual soloNOVA Arts Festival (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination), played the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, and was translated into Spanish for performances in Mexico. She recently graduated from the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program where she appeared in productions of Pericles, Prince of Tyre, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Antigone, Reckless, and, as Rose Trelawny, in Trelawny of the "Wells".

Lowell Byers (Don John, Dogberry, Antonio, Messenger) appeared most recently at The Old Globe as Angelo in The Comedy of Errors directed by Scott Ellis. He was also in the Globe productions of The Twenty-seventh Man and Othello, both directed by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, as well as Twelfth Night and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He was featured in the M.F.A. productions of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, Antigone, Reckless, and, in the title role, Pericles, Prince of Tyre. His Off Broadway credits include Night Float (Playwrights Horizons), Balm in Gilead (New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play), You Never Can Tell, and The Changing Room. He has been seen regionally in North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company), As You Like It (Vermont Stage Company), and SMILE: The Musical. He played the title role in Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror (History Channel) and appeared in the films Brewsie and Willie, Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear, and Things I Don't Understand. Prior to his arrival to the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program, his original play, Luft Gangster, had its world premiere at Abingdon Theatre Company in New York directed by Austin Pendleton. He graduated from Denison University.

Jamal Douglas (Claudio, 2nd Watchman) has been seen at The Old Globe in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello,and The Winter's Tale. He also appeared in the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program productions of Trelawny of the "Wells", Reckless, and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Douglas has worked with Philadelphia Young Playwrights, PlayPenn, Simpatico Theatre Project, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Plays & Players, and the National Constitution Center, among others. In his spare time, he teaches with SAY (The Stuttering Association for the Young) in New York City. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University and is a recent graduate of the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program.

Monique Gaffney (Beatrice, Sexton) appeared in last year's GLOBE FOR ALL production of All's Well That Ends Well. She is a resident artist at Cygnet Theatre Company and a member of Omo Aché Afro-Cuban Dance & Music Co. Her San Diego credits include The Tragedy of the Commons, The Piano Lesson, Man from Nebraska, Yellowman (2008 Craig Noel Award), Bug, and Las Meninas (Cygnet), Doubt, Clybourne Park, and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play(San Diego Repertory Theatre), Heddatron, A Streetcar Named Desire, and A Raisin in the Sun (ion theatre company), Cell and Hoodoo Love (Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company), Brownie Points (Lamb's Players Theatre), No Exit (Diversionary Theatre), Medea (2009 Craig Noel Award) and I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda (Patté Award) (6th @ Penn Theatre), Trouble in Mind, Gibson Girl, and Blue Bonnet Court (MOXIE Theatre), and Gee's Bend, Story Theatre, Stories About the Old Days, and The African Company Presents Richard III (North Coast Repertory Theatre). Gaffney's New York credits include Mamba's Daughters (International Spoleto Festival), and American Silents directed by Anne Bogart. She received her B.A. from UC San Diego and her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

Tyler Kent (Don Pedro, Conrade) has appeared at The Old Globe in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Othello starring Blair Underwood, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Elsewhere, his credits include Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre),The Cherry Orchard (Eugene O'Neill Foundation), A Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Berkeley Rep), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING(Extant Arts Company), Twelfth Night (The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), MEDEAStories (SITI Company), Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway By The Bay), Snapshots and Auctioning the Ainsleys (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Finian's Rainbow (Woodminster Summer Musicals), Vera Wilde (Shotgun Players), and What the Butler Saw (Pacific Repertory Theatre). Kent was among the American actor participants in Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes's international Bridge Project production of Richard III in association with The Old Vic. He is a company member of PlayGround, a Bay Area incubator for new works. His cabarets Nobody's Hart and Give Me the Simple Life toured China in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Kent is a proud graduate of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program.

Christopher Salazar (Benedick, 1st Watchman) previously appeared at the Globe in the inaugural GLOBE FOR ALL tour of All's Well That Ends Well; the 2012 and 2013 Shakespeare Festivals, playing Silvius in As You Like It, Rivers in Richard III, and Prince of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice; Barry Edelstein'sThinking Shakespeare Live!; the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and Tartuffe. His recent Los Angeles credits include the title character in The Misanthrope (Classical Theatre Lab), Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within), Edwin inOur Lady of 121st Street (The Victory Theatre Center), and Man 1 in Candide (Sacred Fools Theater Company). His New York credits include the world premiere of Thieves (The Public Theater), Hamlet (Gorilla Repertory Theater Company, Inc.), The Tempest (Brave New World Repertory Theatre), and Big Love (Columbia University Stage). His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles), Saint Joan and Peter Pan (Barter Theatre), Deathtrap (The Barnstormers Theatre), The Winter's Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, and Love's Labour's Lost (American Shakespeare Center), and understudying the East Coast premiere of Outrage (The Wilma Theater). Salazar holds an M.F.A. in Acting from The Old Globe/USD and has a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Patrick Zeller (Leonato, Borachio, Balthazar) has appeared at the Globe in The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello,The Winter's Tale, and The American Plan. Zeller's other classical theatre credits include The Mysteries (Shakespeare & Company), The Comedy of Errors(New York Classical Theatre), Edward II (Pet Brick Productions), Hamlet (Maine Shakespeare Festival), and Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company). Zeller has appeared on "Law & Order," "Medium," "Kidnapped," "Six Degrees," "All My Children," "One Life to Live," "As the World Turns," and "The Young and the Restless." He also co-starred in the award-winning feature film Virgin Alexander. His other film credits include No Reservations, End of the Spear, and A Totally Minor Motion Picture. He was Co-Founder and Artistic Director for Present Tense Theater Project, a documentary theatre ensemble in New York City adapting myths and fairy tales to local communities. Most recently Zeller has worked as a mentor and teaching artist with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program.

Mark Danisovszky (Musician) previously worked at the Globe as the musical consultant for Rafta, Rafta.... Earlier this year he was the accordion soloist in Osvaldo Golijov's cello concerto "Azul" with La Jolla Symphony and was the soloist for San Diego Symphony's concert of "The Godfather Live." This summer he created an orchestral reduction for accordion for Martinu's opera Tears of the Knife with Bodhi Tree Concerts at the San Diego International Fringe Festival. At the La Jolla Playhouse Without Walls Festival, he recently completed the role of street accordionist for Sledgehammer Theatre's Heaven on Earth, and he was the musical director for Fern Street Circus. Last year he was the musical director for Stephen Sondheim's Passion at ion theatre company, where he will be the musical director for the upcoming Sunday in the Park with George. His credits at La Jolla Playhouse include onstage solo pianist forLuck, Pluck & Virtue by James Lapine with Neil Patrick Harris; accordionist and Oronte for The School for Wives; and pianist, accordionist, and assistant musical director for Mother Courage and Her Children in co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. His San Diego Repertory Theatre credits include musical director for The Threepenny Opera, for which he won the Craig Noel Award, and solo pianist for A Cradle Will Rock, Red Noses, Six Women with Brain Death, Long Story Short, and many productions of A Christmas Carol. Danisovszky has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, where he was the soloist for Alan Hovhaness's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. For San Diego Opera he served as onstage accordionist for Vanessa and Wozzeck. He was also musical director for Rip Van Winkle and Hansel and Gretel for the Opera's education department.

Clinton Davis (Musician, Original Music, Music Director) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator born and raised in Kentucky and currently living in San Diego. He has composed and arranged music for theatrical production on both coasts, including The Old Globe and Brooklyn's Lone Wolf Tribe. These productions have toured the United States, Europe, and South America. Most of his current projects and pursuits involve sifting through America's vernacular musical past in some way or another. With the G Burns Jug Band, Davis arranges iconic country, blues, and jazz recordings of the 1920s and '30s for a five-piece ensemble that tours the West Coast. They have performed with American roots music giants like Jim Kweskin, Del McCoury, and Michael Doucet. In 2015, the G Burns Jug Band released its second album, which iconic roots music publication No Depression called "a joyous and soulful restoration of one of the lost treasures of American musical tradition." At UC San Diego, Davis serves as an associate instructor and leads a survey course on American roots music. He also works as an audio engineer, producing recordings for students and faculty that have been released on Naxos, Mode, Populist, and pfMENTUM record labels.

Robin Sanford Roberts (Scenic Design) has designed over 20 productions at The Old Globe including Alive and Well, The Price, Fiction, Betrayal, Art, Blue/Orange, Sylvia, Da, The Old Settler, and Bus Stop. She also designed the Broadway production of It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. Her many credits at San Diego Repertory Theatre include Uncanny Valley, Venus in Fur, Clybourne Park, Federal Jazz Project, Superior Donuts, The Seafarer, Ain't Misbehavin', Restless Spirits, Fire on the Mountain, Working, The Merchant of Venice, Shylock, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Avenue X, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues. Roberts has also designed for Denver Center Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company,Sacramento Theatre Company, and Swine Palace. She holds a degree in Architecture from Louisiana State University and an M.F.A. in Scenic Design from UC San Diego. She currently teaches in the Theatre Department at University of San Diego.

Charlotte Devaux (Costume Design) has designed 24 productions at The Old Globe, most recently Buyer & Cellar, Quartet, and Other Desert Cities. Her work has also been featured at La Jolla Playhouse, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and San Diego Dance Theater. She designed Miami Libre, a Cuban dance musical, for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. Internationally, Devaux has designed costumes extensively for theatre and television in New Zealand. She was the costume designer and stylist for the iconic children's program "What Now?" Her costumes have been featured at The Court Theatre and Christchurch Repertory Theatre, New Zealand. She holds additional costume design credits in Sydney and London. Devaux serves as the Resident Associate Costume Designer at The Old Globe, where she has collaborated on over 70 productions, including In Your Arms, Bright Star, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Last Goodbye, The Times They Are A-Changin', Robin and the 7 Hoods, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Summer Shakespeare Festivals. Devaux is undertaking costume research and study in the U.K. as a grant recipient of the Leadership U: Continuing Ed program, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group.

Diana Moser (Production Stage Manager) recently stage managed the Globe's Rich Girl, Time and the Conways, and All's Well That Ends Well, the inaugural touring production of GLOBE FOR ALL. Since 2004 she has worked on over 25 shows at the Globe including Other Desert Cities, The Brothers Size, August: Osage County, The Recommendation, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, The Whipping Man, I Do! I Do!, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, In This Corner, the 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Moser's regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and Arizona Theatre Company. Moser received her B.A. from Bard College and her M.F.A. in Directing from Purdue.

The Old Globe is located in San Diego's Balboa Park at 1363 Old Globe Way. There are numerous free parking lots available throughout the park. Guests may also be dropped off in front of the Mingei International Museum. The Balboa Park valet is also available during performances ($12), located in front of the Japanese Friendship Garden. For additional parking information visit www.BalboaPark.org. For directions and up-to-date information, visit www.TheOldGlobe.org/Directions.

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional regional theatres and has stood as San Diego's flagship arts institution for 80 years. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Managing Director Michael G. Murphy, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 14 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages: the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the 600-seat Old Globe Theatre and the 250-seat Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, both part of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, and the 605-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, home of its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people attend Globe productions annually and participate in the theatre's education and community programs. Numerous world premieres such as the 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Allegiance, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and the annual holiday musical Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.

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