even the dramatic plays with a sad ending like Romeo and Juliet, would be followed up by a ridiculously upbeat song and dance number. Totally inappropriate! In 1613 the original Globe Theatre ...

The original Globe Theatre – which staged Shakespeare's plays and where the Bard wrote "Twelfth Night," "King Lear," and several others – opened in 1599 and burned down in 1613. The second ...

Example: Lauren Yee’s “The Great Leap.” It was introduced in 2018 as part of the Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival in a ...

"You [co-director Sam Crane] said to me very early on, 'It feels like I went back in time to the Globe 500 years ago ... and people were selling stuff.' The theater in Shakespeare's time was ...