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The Old Globe proudly announces its 2024 Season with a thrilling lineup of premieres and new adaptations. The season features the same number of productions as prior to the pandemic, and includes two Globe-commissioned, world premiere productions: Karen Zacarías’s (The Old Globe’s Destiny of Desire and Native Gardens) The Age of Innocence, based on Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic novel, and Melinda Lopez (The Old Globe’s Mala, Huntington Theatre Company’s Yerma) and Joel Perez’s (La Jolla Playhouse’s Kiss My Aztec!, Ars Nova’s Playing with Myself) Stir, about family, food, and healing. The season will also include two American premieres: the smash-hit London musical Ride with book and lyrics by Freya Catrin Smith (London’s Network Theatre’s The Limit, Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Part A), music and lyrics by Jack Williams (London’s Network Theatre’s The Limit, Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s Part A), and directed by Sarah Meadows (U.K. premiere of Marie Curie, U.K. tour of The Good Enough Mums Club), and the theatrical extravaganza Duel Reality, a production by The 7 Fingers and directed by Shana Carroll (Cirque du Soleil’s Iris, Alliance Theatre’s Water for Elephants), the producers and creator of the Globe’s crowd-pleasing 2023 hit Passengers.
Alaudin Ullah. Photo by Mohammed Amir Hamza.
The Old Globe is pleased to present the West Coast premiere of Dishwasher Dreams, written and performed by Alaudin Ullah (filmmaker of the award-winning documentary In Search of Bengali Harlem; featured comedy acts on HBO, Comedy Central, PBS, and more; the hit film American Desi) and directed by Chay Yew (Cambodian Rock Band – Craig Noel Award; Durango – Obie Award), with music by acclaimed tabla percussionist Avirodh Sharma. Performances begin September 16 and play through October 15, 2023, with the opening on Thursday, September 21 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Tickets are on sale now at www.TheOldGlobe.org.
The Old Globe presents Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona featuring students from The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Directed by Jimonn Cole, the limited engagement will play 11 performances only from October 28 to November 5, 2023 in The Old Globe’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Center in beautiful Balboa Park. Tickets go on sale to subscribers and donors on Friday, August 25 at 12:00 noon, and to the general public on Friday, September 1 at 12:00 noon.
John Treacy Egan as Old Max, Andrew Polec as The Grinch, and Tommy Martinez as Young Max in Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, 2021. Photo by Rich Soublet II.
The Old Globe is pleased to celebrate the holidays with two popular San Diego yuletide traditions: the annual production of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and the comedic Dickens send-up Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. The Grinch will run November 8 – December 31, 2023, with an official opening night on Sunday, November 12. Scrooge will run November 17 – December 24, 2023, with an official opening night on Tuesday, November 21. The cast and creative team for both productions will be announced at a later date. Subscriber and donor priority pre-sale for Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show starts September 12, and single tickets for the general public will be available online September 20 at www.TheOldGlobe.org; and on September 22 by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623) and in person at The Old Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park.
The Old Globe is pleased to announce a fall full of Shakespeare with the return of the Globe for All Tour, now in its ninth year of making theatre matter to more people. With the touring production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by Em Weinstein (In France Michelle Is a Man’s Name, “The L Word: Generation Q”), this talented company of artists will bring a stirring, free-admission production to various economically, geographically, and culturally diverse communities throughout San Diego County, including Old Globe Community Partner venues from San Ysidro to Oceanside and south of the border in Tijuana, Mexico. A full list of venues, dates, and times is below.
The cast of Cabaret. Photo by Jim Cox.
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team of the reimagined and visionary new staging of the Tony Award–winning musical Cabaret. The production features a book by Joe Masteroff, based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes (Broadway and The Old Globe’s Bright Star, The Old Globe and Asolo Repertory Theatre’s Guys and Dolls,Pittsburgh CLO’s The Drowsy Chaperone). Performances run September 1 to October 8, 2023, with the opening on Wednesday, September 6 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park. Tickets are available at www.TheOldGlobe.org.
