The Best Performing Arts Venue in Balboa Park, Bankers Hill, and San Diego Zoo, San Diego

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The Old Globe

Balboa Park Fodor's Choice

This complex, comprised of the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, and The Old Globe, offers some of the finest theatrical productions in Southern California. Theater classics such as Into the Woods and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more recent hits like Stir and The XIXTH, premiered on these famed stages and went on to perform on Broadway. The Old Globe presents a renowned summer Shakespeare Festival with three to four plays in repertory. The theaters, done in a California version of Tudor style, sit between the sculpture garden of the San Diego Museum of Art and the California Tower. If you can't catch a show, daytime one-hour behind-the-scenes tours offer a close-up look at the theaters as well as the intricacies of set and costume design.

1363 Old Globe Way, San Diego, CA, 92101, USA
619-234–5623
Performing Art Details
Tours $7
Box office closed Mon.

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