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.

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Globe Theater

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 ● Nov. 20, 2023

This annual family celebration at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater moves online and includes arts and crafts, a makeup and character workshop and a reading from “Henry V.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2020

Above the entrance to the first Globe Theater hung the words “Totus Mundus Agit Histrionem” — All the World’s a Stage — which served as its presiding motto.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

Biotech and the Old Globe Theater are not the only draws in San Diego.

From Forbes ● Mar. 27, 2015

Tell the story of the first production of Henry VIII., which caused the burning of the Globe Theater.

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