The Old Globe [San Diego]
type: Item
label: The Old Globe
description: theater in Balboa Park in San Diego, California
description: theater in Californië, Verenigde Staten van Amerika @nl
Wikidata source: Q7084094
EUTA research ID II: 529
Field: architecture
Type of information: Performance venue
Importance: Not rated
Web: www.theoldglobe.org
Country: USA
City: San Diego
GPS: Point(-98.4782 29.4608)
EUTA building identifier: 6408
opening date: 1935-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q163740
Wikidata instance: Q3469910
Carthalia ID: 2880
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1935 by Richard Requa as part of the California Pacific International Exposition, inspired by Shakespeare's London Globe (1614). 1969 addition of a theatre in the round named Cassius Carter Centre Stage. Old Globe Theatre destroyed by fire after an arson attack in March 1978, subsequently rebuilt. 1978 addition of an outdoor festival stage that was destroyed by fire after an arson attack in 1984 and was subsequently rebuilt and reopened as Lowell Davies Festival Theatre.