The Old Globe at 90: Looking back and moving forward

The Old Globe at 90: Looking back and moving forward

On the afternoon of May 29, 1935, The “merrie England”-style, open-air Globe Theater welcomed its first audience for a performance of William Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” at the California Pacific International Exhibition in San Diego’s Balboa Park. In the next morning’s San Diego Union, theater critic Wallace Moody wrote that the crowd was “thrilled” by “Shrew” and several other 50-minute versions of Shakespeare plays, “all of them s…