The Old Globe Presents BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY, KISS ME KATE, and More for Summer '15

The Old Globe will celebrate its 80th Anniversary as part of the Balboa Park Centennial Celebration with a 2015 Summer Season featuring Shakespeare onstage and in film.

2014 Tony Award winner for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and former Old Globe Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to direct the spectacular musical classic Kiss Me, Kate, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam and Bella Spewack, and choreography by Peggy Hickey, in association with Hartford Stage.

Director Rebecca Taichman, whose time-traveling Time and the Conways fascinated audiences last April, is back to direct Shakespeare's delightful and romantic Twelfth Night. Six-time Tony Award nominee Scott Ellis, who has three shows on Broadway this season, will make his Old Globe directorial debut with Shakespeare's hilarious The Comedy of Errors.

Rounding out the season is the West Coast premiere of Ken Ludwig's comedy Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery.

Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors will run in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Kiss Me, Kate will play on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, both part of the Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.

The Globe will also present a series of free Monday night films relating to Shakespeare through the eras to celebrate both the Balboa Park Centennial and the theatre's 80th Anniversary. On June 29, 2015, the Globe will present Henry V, directed byLaurence Olivier in 1944, in the Festival Theatre. It will be followed by Orson Welles's 1965 classic Chimes at Midnighton July 13 and Joss Whedon's 2012 Much Ado About Nothingon August 3 (both in the Globe Theatre), and the series will conclude on August 24 with Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins's groundbreaking 1961 New York City riff on the Bard's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story, in the Festival Theatre.

"In 2015, San Diego marks the centennial of the Panama-California Exposition and the 80th birthday of The Old Globe. Both anniversaries celebrate the vibrancy of Balboa Park, a place that defines this city as a cultural force to be reckoned with nationwide, and both deserve great festivities. The Globe has put together a summer season of laughter, fun, and the most vivid theatricality we could muster," said Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. "Outdoors we will present two of Shakespeare's most crowd-pleasing plays, in productions by American visionaries. Indoors we'll welcome one of our closest friends to reimagine a classic musical with a Shakespeare connection of its own, and we'll present the West Coast premiere of a new stage adaptation of a beloved Sherlock Holmes mystery. Plus, as a special double-anniversary gift to San Diego, we're going to throw our doors open for free screenings of four of the best Shakespeare films ever made. It's going to be a summer-long party on our campus, and a demonstration of all the wonders the Globe has brought our city for eight decades."

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The complete 2015 Summer Season is as follows:

2015 Shakespeare Festival / Lowell Davies Festival Theatre

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, directed by Rebecca Taichman (June 21 - July 26; opens June 27)
Everything we love about Shakespeare-romance, music, poetry, laughter, swordplay, great characters, and even a girl in pants!-is in Twelfth Night, one of the Bard's true comic masterpieces. Shipwrecked and alone in foreign Illyria, young Viola masquerades as a boy and becomes the go-between for the lovesick Duke Orsino and the beautiful Countess Olivia. Soon Viola finds herself in the middle of a topsy-turvy love triangle with lunacy on every side. Visionary director Rebecca Taichman returns to the Globe with a stunning production of one of Shakespeare's most perfect plays.

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare, directed by Scott Ellis (August 16 - September 20; opens August 22)
Laughter will ring out under the stars as Shakespeare's hilarious tale of mistaken identity takes the outdoor stage. A young man and his servant arrive in town, unaware that each of them has a separated-at-birth identical twin already there. This can't end well-or maybe it can, but not before the unexpected double vision leads to furious wives, confused mistresses, scandalized family members, and general mayhem. With three shows on Broadway this year, Tony and Emmy Award nominee Scott Ellis makes his Globe debut directing one of Shakespeare's most delightful confections.

Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage, Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

Kiss Me, Kate, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam and Bella Spewack, choreography by Peggy Hickey, directed by Darko Tresnjak (July 1 - August 2; opens July 9)
Fresh off his Tony Award-winning smash, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Darko Tresnjak returns to the Globe to helm one of the greatest romantic musical comedies of all time. Cole Porter's witty and high-spirited songs will transport you into the wings as a touring company gets ready to open a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew, starring a divorced couple whose offstage battles threaten to bring down the curtain. This beloved classic features show-stopping dance numbers, Shakespeare-quoting mobsters, and a knockout score including "Another Op'nin', Another Show," "So In Love," and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Get ready for a sizzling summer evening that's simply "Too Darn Hot"!
In association with Hartford Stage.

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery by Ken Ludwig (July 24 - August 23; opens July 30)
A wildly inventive adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles makes its West Coast premiere. One of America's great comic playwrights, Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Crazy for You) brings to life literature's most famous detective-the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. Five fearless actors conjure the world of Victorian England as Holmes and Watson take on one of the most diabolical cases of their career. This witty and clever romp delivers chills, laughter, and a great evening of theatre.

All selections are subject to change.

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2014-2015 SEASON CALENDAR: Bright Star (9/13-11/2), The Royale (10/4-11/2), Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (11/15-12/27), Murder for Two (1/24/15-3/1), The Twenty-seventh Man (2/14-3/15), The White Snake (3/21-4/26), Buyer & Cellar (4/4-5/3), Arms and the Man (5/9-6/14), Rich Girl (5/23-6/21), Twelfth Night (6/21-8/23), Kiss Me, Kate (7/1-8/2), Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (7/24-8/23), The Comedy of Errors (8/9-9/13).

The Tony Award-winning Old Globe is one of the country's leading professional regional theatres and has stood as San Diego's flagship arts institution for over 75 years. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Managing Director Michael G. Murphy, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 14 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages: the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the 600-seat Old Globe Theatre and the 250-seat Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, both part of The Old Globe's Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, and the 605-seat outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, home of its internationally renowned Shakespeare Festival. More than 250,000 people attend Globe productions annually and participate in the theatre's education and community programs. Numerous world premieres such as 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Catered Affair, and the annual holiday musical Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to enjoy highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.