Globe Theater

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1. The theater in London where many of the great plays of William Shakespeare were first performed. Shakespeare himself acted at the Globe. It burned and was rebuilt shortly before Shakespeare's death and was finally pulled down in the middle of the seventeenth century.

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In the late twentieth century a reconstruction of the theater was built near its original site.

Example Sentences

It’s not that grief, and coping mechanisms, don’t appear in this book; one of the ways Grammer passed the time as a newbie actor at San Diego’s Old Globe theater was to grab a crab sandwich from Point Loma Seafoods with some wine or beer, and head to the neighborhood’s military cemetery to sit at the grave of a Vietnam soldier who was around Grammer’s age at the time of his death.

From Los Angeles Times

When Michelle Terry, the artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, decided to put on a production of “Richard III” with a feminist twist, she probably didn’t expect accusations of discrimination.

From New York Times

Ready to reclaim her writerly voice, in 2019 Green entered the University of California, San Diego’s prestigious graduate playwriting program, affiliated with The Old Globe theater in San Diego.

From Seattle Times

His career path includes writing plays and performing on Broadway, the West End and the Old Globe theater in San Diego.

From Los Angeles Times

The show, which opened on Monday at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, debuted in 2021 at the Old Globe Theater in San Diego.

From New York Times