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

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

Plus, the Old Globe Theater in San Diego is presenting a jukebox musical inspired by the music of Huey Lewis and the News.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2018

From 1997 to 2007, Ms. van Kampen, 64, was the director of theater music at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, overseeing and composing the music for its productions.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

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

From Forbes • Mar. 27, 2015

Besides this, he became about 1599 a sharer, with Heming, Condell, Philips, and others, in the receipts of the Globe Theater, erected in 1597-8 by Richard and Cuthbert Burbage.

From The Facts About Shakespeare by Nielson, William Allan