New Theater at Old Globe

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The Old Globe Theater complex sits in one of the most beautiful areas of the already beautiful Balboa park in San Diego. Nothing stays the same however, as rich folks keep wanting their names on everything.

So now the Old Globe is part of the Conrad Prebys Theater Center, and hosts the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage. There is also the Karen and Donald Cohen Education Center, and the Helen Edison Gift Shop.

 

But what brought me to the Old Globe was a production of an old play in its newest theater. Lost In Yonkers, by Neil Simon, has been playing to sold out houses for two months now. It's easy to sell out a house which only seats 251 people, isn't it?

 

The new theater is very intimate, as this photo and description show:

 

The Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre http://www.theoldglobe.org/_img/yourvisit/new/whitetheatre_490x327.jpg The Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre will bring our arena stage productions into the 21st Century, with superior technical facilities and a physical space that affords a broader range of artistic choices, while retaining the intimacy our Cassius Carter audiences cherished. A state-of-the-art arena stage with five rows surrounding the stage, safe and comfortable theatre access for audience and actors, full lighting grid and trap room, and new public restrooms.

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So, for Lost in Yonkers, I was able to sit very close to the performers. The three main performers:

Steven Kaplan as Jay, Jennifer Regan as Bella and Austyn Myers as Arty.

http://www.theoldglobe.org/_upload/productions/img/detail//Yonkers_CMS_9.jpg

 

were joined by a fourth, who played the crusty old grandmother, yet ran off stage during scene changes, kind of destroying the role she had just created on stage as an old codger needing a cane to slowly walk on stage.

 

But, we enjoyed the performance and were glad to get a look at the new theater. Two downsides exist, though. You have to park quite far away from the theater, and the stadium seats present a solid wall to the seat behind, leaving no room for your feet unless you had them tied tight in China as a baby. For someone like me, that was very hard to deal with.

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So that's where you were.. I don't think China practices it anymore and it was inteded only for women so you would have been fine and exempt from the awful practice.

 

and the stadium seats present a solid wall to the seat behind, leaving no room for your feet unless you had them tied tight in China as a baby. For someone like me, that was very hard to deal with.