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The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for Henry 6, a world premiere adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, adapted and directed by Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. Rehearsals for the milestone production begin this week. The Globe becomes one of only a small handful of theatres in the country’s history to complete Shakespeare’s canon with Henry 6, the largest Shakespeare production the theatre has ever presented. Edelstein, a renowned stage director, producer, educator, and podcast host, fashions the rarely produced Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III into a thrilling two-part event, running simultaneously at The Old Globe’s 2024 Summer Shakespeare Festival. Henry 6 takes place under the stars in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Performances run June 30 - September 14, 2024, with the opening on Friday, July 19 for One: Flowers and France, and July 9 – September 15, 2024, with the opening on Saturday, July 20 for Two: Riot and Reckoning. Tickets now on sale.
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for the five-time Tony Award nominee and 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner Fat Ham by James Ijames (White, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington) and original direction by Saheem Ali (Shakespeare in the Park’s Merry Wives, Berkeley Rep’s Goddess). Sideeq Heard (Geffen Playhouse’s Fat Ham, West Coast premiere; Here Is a Man) directs the five-week limited engagement, which begins performances May 25 and runs to June 23, 2024, with the official opening night on Thursday, May 30. Fat Ham plays on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets now on sale.
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for Stir by Melinda Lopez (The Old Globe’s Mala) and Joel Perez (La Jolla Playhouse’s Kiss My Aztec!). The Globe-commissioned world premiere play is directed by Marcela Lorca (Guthrie Theater’s Caroline, or Change). Stir plays in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, from May 4 through May 26, 2024, with the official opening night on Thursday, May 9. Tickets are now on sale at www.TheOldGlobe.org.
The Old Globe announced today the four-member cohort for the 2024 Classical Directing Fellowship, a program of the Karen and Stuart Tanz Fellowships at The Old Globe, led by the Globe’s Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, a leading Shakespearean teacher, author, podcast host, and director. This year’s fellows, who are active directors in the San Diego theatre community and who have worked with The Old Globe in various artistic capacities, include Andréa Agosto (associate director of Henry V for The Old Globe’s Globe for All Tour, Buckets at Diversionary Theatre, Game of Tiaras at Falcon Players), Kandace Crystal (Welcome to Sleepy Hollow at Oceanside Theatre Company, Gracie for President at San Diego Junior Theatre, upcoming The Color Purple at New Village Arts), Kian Kline-Chilton (Blue Orange at Fenix Theatre Collaborative, assistant director of The Taming of the Shrew at The Old Globe, assistant director of Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play at The Old Globe), and Desireé Clarke Miller (Celebrating Community Voices at The Old Globe’s Power New Voices Festival, Man and Moon at MOXIE Theatre, Monsters of The American Cinema at Diversionary Theatre). The fifth year of this series of workshops on Shakespearean directing will be held at the Globe from Monday, March 25 to Friday, March 29, 2024. In addition to the workshops, the 2024 Classical Directing Fellows will be invited to observe rehearsals of the upcoming summer production of Henry 6, adapted and directed by Edelstein.
Due to popular demand, The Old Globe is pleased to announce a one-week extension for its critically acclaimed production of King James. The play, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Rajiv Joseph (Broadway’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Off Broadway’s Guards at the Taj) and directed by Justin Emeka (Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Sweat and American Son), opened on March 14, 2024 and is now extended with performances through April 7. King James plays at the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets for the extension are now on sale.
The Old Globe’s Annual Meeting was held on Monday, March 4, 2024 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Board Chair Evelyn Olson Lamden welcomed the members of The Old Globe Board of Directors, along with donors, subscribers, and guests, to this concluding event in her two-year term of office, and announced newly elected and returning Directors. Globe senior staff members presented highlights of 2023, and Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director Timothy J. Shields spoke about the future of the Globe and its place in the San Diego community.
