The Old Globe announced the remaining productions in its 2017 Summer Season, including a brand-new comedy––Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood!––and the Summer Shakespeare Festival lineup, featuring Robert Sean Leonard in the title role of the towering history play Richard II, directed by Erica Schmidt. Shakespeare’s exhilarating tragedy Hamlet follows, directed by Old Globe Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, one of the leading American authorities on the works of Shakespeare. They join the previously announced musical fable of Broadway's Guys and Dolls.
Get ready to rollick with Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood! Inventive comic genius Ken Ludwig, whose Baskerville brought Sherlock Holmes to the Globe, is back with a brand-new Globe-commissioned world premiere comedy about another icon: Robin Hood. Packed with thrills, romance, laughs, and great characters like Little John, Friar Tuck, and Maid Marian, Robin Hood! tells the timeless story of a hero of the people who takes on the powers that be. Ken Ludwig’s Robin Hood! will play July 22nd–August 27th, with opening night on July 30th.
The Summer Shakespeare Festival will include Globe and television favorite Robert Sean Leonard (the Globe’s Pygmalion, House) in the title role of one of the greatest of Shakespeare’s towering cycle of history plays, Richard II, directed by Erica Schmidt. Convinced of his divine right to rule, King Richard acts recklessly and provides the canny Henry Bolingbroke an opening to seize the crown. Filled with magnificent verse and Shakespeare’s characteristic wisdom and insight, Richard II is a deeply moving and insightful portrait of how the forces of history collide and combust to shape a nation’s political landscape. Richard II plays June 11th–July 15th, with opening night on Sunday, June 18th.
Shakespeare’s exhilarating tragedy Hamlet follows, with the Globe’s Barry Edelstein returning to the outdoor Festival Stage to bring Shakespeare’s classic to life under the San Diego stars. He will direct a cast featuring some of the nation’s finest classical actors in one of the greatest plays ever written—revenge thriller, ghost story, psychological drama, political epic, family saga, all packed with unforgettable characters, theatrical masterstrokes, and world-famous lines. The Prince of Denmark comes home from college to find his father dead, his mother remarried to his uncle, and a spine-chilling apparition roaming the palace grounds. Hamlet plays August 6th–September 10th, with opening night on Saturday, August 12th.
As previously announced, the classic musical fable of Broadway Guys and Dolls will open the Summer Season. Based on a story and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Guys and Dolls will be directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, returning to the Globe after the great success Bright Star, which he choreographed. Roll the dice as Guys and Dolls runs July 2nd–August 13th, with opening night on Friday, July 7th.
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