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The Old Globe hosts the 12th annual Powers New Voices Festival from January 10 to 12, 2025, showcasing ten new plays by emerging and established ...

The Old Globe presents the 12th annual Powers New Voices Festival from January 10 to January 12, 2025, featuring a series of play readings that ...

The Old Globe hosts the Powers New Voices Festival, featuring a weekend of play readings from January 10 to 12, 2025. Among the line-up is ...

Alien Girls is one of the featured new play readings in the 12th annual Powers New Voices Festival at The Old Globe, taking place on ...

The Old Globe presents the Powers New Voices Festival, showcasing new American play readings from January 10 to 12, 2025. One of the highlights is ...

The Old Globe kicks off 2025 with the 12th annual Powers New Voices Festival from January 10-12, featuring a diverse selection of new American plays. ...

Book and lyrics by   Timothy Mason Music by   Mel Marvin Original production conceived and directed by   Jack O’Brien Additional lyrics by   ...

By  Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons,  and  Michael Arden Directed by  Barry Edelstein This holiday season, Mays will return to The Old Globe after his San ...

The Old Globe presents a Globe for All production of As You Like It, showcasing this Shakespearean comedy directed by Emil Weinstein. The story follows ...

Banished from the court by her distrustful uncle, the Duke, Rosalind and her cousin Celia journey to the magical Forest of Arden to escape from ...

By  William Shakespeare Directed by   Sam White With no male heir and the weight of the nation on his shoulders, King Henry VIII seeks ...

Get ready for a glamorous and enthralling journey in this adaptation of Agatha Christie’s masterpiece. On a train traveling through Europe, a wealthy American tycoon ...

West Coast premiere By  Gordon Greenberg  and  Steve Rosen Directed by  Gordon Greenberg Celebrate Halloween with a new side-splitting adventure based on Bram Stoker’s classic ...

Adapted for the Stage by Ken LudwigDirected by Sanford RobbinsNOV. 7 - NOV. 24An opulent train stranded in the snow-whipped mountains, a dining car packed ...

By  Kate Hamill Directed by  James Vásquez A fast-paced and wildly entertaining new play that reimagines the most iconic detective team of all time. In ...

The triumphant return of the company that brought Globe audiences last summer’s smash hit  Passengers . Love, honor, and betrayal come to life through a ...

The 2022 Pulitzer-winning, Tony-nominated sensation  Fat Ham  is a fresh and funny take on Shakespeare’s  Hamlet  that  The New York Times  called “a flat-out hilarious ...

Eric Lane Wesleyan College  ...

King LeBron Jamess reign in Cleveland brings promise, prosperity and renewal to a city in desperate need of all three. It also brings together two ...

adapt: Doug McGrath; dir: Doug Hughes. World Premiere...

The classic suspense story of an unfaithful English wife, her American lover, and her vengeful husband. Lonely and unloved, Margot falls for American mystery writer ...

A heartfelt dramedy, SHUTTER SISTERS tells the story of two women living parallel lives. A white woman named Michael struggles with strained family relationships at ...

By William Shakespeare Directed by Sam White Begins FEBRUARY 12, 2021 The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program's students use ...

A Globe-commissioned new play By José Cruz González Directed by James Vásquez Sunday, JANUARY 24 at 7:00 p.m. The Festival wraps up on with the ...

Works by Tanika Baptiste, Dea Hurston, Joy Yvonne Jones, Tamara McMillian, Milena (Sellars) Phillips, Rich Soublet II, and Ruff Yeager Produced by Karen Ann Daniels ...

By Lope De Vega Translated and adapted by William S. Gregory and Daniel Jáquez Friday, JANUARY 22 at 7:00 p.m. The Festival continues with Fuente ...

Celebrating Community Voices Works by Queen Kandi Colke, KishaLynn ("KL") Moore Elliott, Jonathan Hammond, and Thelma Virata de Castro Directed by Freedome Bradley-Ballentine, Katherine Harroff, ...

The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of its 23rd annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which this ...

The Old Globe announced today that its 23rd annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas! will be presented by KPBS Radio in ...

The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of its 23rd annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which this ...

The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of its 23rd annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which this ...

The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of its 23rd annual production of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, which this ...

Selina Fillinger; dir: BJ Jones....

Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She's got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity - the Greek god Dionysus - and ...

Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center: August Wilson's Jitney...

Cheering audiences rose to their feet and critics throughout the Southland spun superlatives as the curtain fell on Fences, but that was only the beginning ...

adapt: Jack O'Brien; book: Timothy Mason; lyrics: Timothy Mason; music: Mel Marvin; dir: Jack O'Brien, James V??squez....

Gordon Greenberg, Steve Rosen; dir: Gordon Greenberg....

William Shakespeare; dir: Daniel J??quez....

book: Cameron Crowe; lyrics: Cameron Crowe, Tom Kitt; music: Tom Kitt; dir: Jeremy Herrin. World Premiere...

Eight years ago, Noura and her family fled their home in Iraq. Today, she plans the perfect Christmas dinner to celebrate their new life in ...

"Daphne and Ralph are young classics professors who have just made a discovery thats sure to turn them into academic superstars. But something goes disastrously ...

Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center: book: Britta Johnson; lyrics: Britta Johnson; music: Britta Johnson; dir: Barry Edelstein....

by Nia Vardalos, Cheryl Strayed Based on the bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed and adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos, Tiny Beautiful Things personifies ...

Jos? Cruz Gonz??lez; dir: James V??squez. Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

Anton Chekhov; trans: Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky; dir: Richard Nelson. Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

Oscar Wilde; dir: Maria Aitken. Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

One actor portrays every character in a small Jersey Shore town as he unravels the story of Leonard Pelkey, a tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant fourteen-year-old ...

book: Kirsten Guenther; lyrics: Mindi Dickstein; music: Nolan Gasser; dir: Jack Cummings III. World Premiere...

Lolita Chakrabarti; dir: Rachel Chavkin. Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

Nick Gandiello; dir: Gaye Taylor Upchurch. Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

Steve Martin; dir: Barry Edelstein. Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre, Conrad Prebys Theatre Center:...

William Shakespeare; dir: Patricia McGregor....

William Shakespeare; dir: Patricia McGregor....

Benjamin Scheuer; dir: Sean Daniels....

Benjamin Scheuer; dir: Sean Daniels....

book: Aaron Thielen; lyrics: Michael Mahler; music: Michael Mahler; dir: Rachel Rockwell....

book: Aaron Thielen; lyrics: Michael Mahler; music: Michael Mahler; dir: Rachel Rockwell....

Kimber Lee; dir: Kirsten Brandt....

World Premiere March 21–May 4, 2014 in the Kreeger Theater Sixty-two miles north of Washington, D.C., nestled in Catoctin Mountain Park, lies the clandestine retreat ...

This spellbinding, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman. But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world ...

book: Sybille Pearson; lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa; music: Michael John LaChiusa; dir: Barry Edelstein....

An idyllic Forest of Arden provides the lush backdrop for Shakespeare's glorious romantic comedy of courtiers, clowns, philosophers and provincials—all bewitched by the trials and ...

Mark Hampton, Mary Louise Wilson; dir: Andrew Russell....

Doulas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, Alfred Uhry; lyrics: Lynn Ahrens; ...

Second Stage: - Victoria Stewart; dir: Michael Bloom....

George Bernard Shaw’s most romantic comedy! The beautiful Raina Petkoff is about to marry the heroic soldier Sergius. But the battlefield sweeps into her boudoir ...

Buyer & Cellar is a one-man comedy play written by Jonathan Tolins. It premiered in 2013 and quickly gained critical acclaim for its humor and ...

Tony Award winner Mary Zimmerman creates an enchanting theatrical spectacle with live music and sumptuous visuals. In this visionary staging of a classic Chinese fable, ...

Nathan Englander; dir: Barry Edelstein....

Multi-millionaire Arthur Whitney has been murdered at his own birthday party, and his killer could be any one of the guests. But this is no ...

From award-winning screenwriter and playwright Steve Martin (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Roxanne) and chart-topping singer-songwriter Edie Brickell comes a world premiere American musical inspired ...

Renowned director and Tony Award nominee Mark Lamos returns to the Globe with one of Shakespeare’s most delightful and boisterous comedies. Best friends Valentine and ...

From the author of The Dresser comes an uplifting comedy recently made into a major motion picture. Three former opera singers, Reginald, Cecily, and Wilfred, ...

One of the greatest musicals of all time returns in triumph to its birthplace, nearly three decades after its world premiere at The Old Globe, ...

Mags and Andy are a screenwriting team with a track record of hits and a professional relationship that’s firing on all cylinders. But when Andy’s ...

From New York’s Shakespeare in the Park to Balboa Park, Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein makes his debut on the Globe’s outdoor stage with ...

Your heart has to go out to three siblings whose artsy parents named them after characters from Chekhov. Vanya and Sonia have lived at home ...

For one night only, acclaimed stage and screen actor Richard Thomas (“The Americans,” “The Waltons”) brings to vibrant life one of the giants of American ...

Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts ...

Yorkshire, 1919: The Great War is over and it’s a new Golden Age. The six Conway siblings gather for a birthday celebration filled with laughter ...

Shakespeare’s sublime late masterpiece sweeps breathtakingly from jealousy, rage and loss to redemption, reconciliation and, finally, wonder. Along the way it visits kings and queens, ...

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre: Laura Marks; dir: Gaye Taylor Upchurch....

A musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet featuring the emotional and gorgeous songs of Jeff Buckley, directed by the brightest star in today’s Broadway ...

Four years ago, Bryan skipped town, leaving his girlfriend to run a failing truckers' newspaper. Now he’s come back to discover everything has changed. Except ...

William Shakespeare; music: Dan Moses Schreier; dir: Ian Talbot....

William Shakespeare; dir: Adrian Noble....

Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm's-eye view of ...

Virginia Jackson Browning Mainstage: - adapt: David Pichette, R. Hamilton Wright from James M. Cain; dir: Michael Evan Haney....

N. Richard Nash; dir: Maria Mileaf....

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre: - Bekah Brunstetter; dir: Hal Brooks....

Old Globe Theatre: - Jon Robin Baitz; dir: Richard Seer....

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre: - adapt: Kirsten Brandt, Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey from Henrik Ibsen; dir: Kirsten Brandt....

Old Globe Theatre: - book: Robert L. Freedman; lyrics: Robert L. Freedman, Steven Lutvak; music: Steven Lutvak; dir: Darko Tresnjak....

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre: - Tarell Alvin McCraney; dir: Tea Alagic....

Old Globe Theatre: - George Bernard Shaw; dir: Nicholas Martin....

A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL is an epic story of family, love and patriotism set during the Japanese American internment of World War II. On the ...

A funny and irreverent World Premiere musical romantic comedy from the award-winning creative team of playwright Itamar Moses (Bach at Leipzig) and Gaby Alter (Band ...

From the creators of Chicago, Cabaret and The Producers comes the critically acclaimed new Broadway musical that had audiences on their feet—THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS! Direct ...

Eugene O’Neill’s poetic masterpiece won him his second Pulitzer Prize. ANNA CHRISTIE is a gripping account of the relationship between an old sailor and the ...

Biting social satire and passionate romance are set in motion when Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, ...

Jonathan Caren Windy City Playhouse...

Nominated for a 2009 Tony Award for Best Play, the Broadway production of Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote's knowing comedy about family, money, power and ...

America’s favorite holiday fable, back for its 14th joyous year, will once again jump right off the pages of the classic Dr. Seuss book and ...

Academy and Grammy Award-winning music legend Burt Bacharach joins forces with Tony Award winner Steven Sater for a World Premiere musical that re-imagines the classic ...

The Old Globe presents William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Visit the website for more information....

A World Premiere play from Old Globe Playwright-in-Residence Matthew Lopez, whose The Whipping Man was a smash hit at the Globe and then New York. ...

Romance, magic and a deserted island - the final and most beloved masterpiece of Shakespeare’s life places the desire for revenge against the demands of ...

One of the most popular and charming of Shakespeare’s comedies, Much Ado About Nothing features the original battle of the sexes couple - Benedick, an ...

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play and the Academy Award for Best Film, Amadeus weaves a confrontation between mediocrity and genius into a ...

The musical that became a movie and started a 35-year nonstop cultural phenomenon is back where it is meant to be seen—live on stage! A ...

This unexpected new comedy follows the battle of wits and the real life romance between socialite Charlotte Payne-Townshend and playwright George Bernard Shaw. When wealthy ...

Hershey Felder in Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is a new work from the creators of George Gershwin Alone, Monsieur Chopin and Beethoven, As ...

The Old Globe’s fourth annual Summer Shakespeare Intensive for teens will conclude on Monday, August 15 at 8:00 p.m. with a performance of 50-minute versions ...