The Old Globe Presents “The Comedy of Errors”
The Old Globe is pleased to announce the full cast and creative team for William Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors.” Globe Resident Artist James Vásquez (The Old Globe’s “Under a Baseball Sky,” “American Mariachi”) directs a cast of 22. “The Comedy of Errors,” which concludes the Globe’s 2025 Shakespeare Festival, will play in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre at The Old Globe in San Diego’s Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way). Performances for the four-week limited engagement run Sunday, July 27 through Sunday, August 24, 2025. Tickets are available at TheOldGlobe.org.
Merriment and mayhem come to life in the Bard’s hilarious and fun-filled play, “The Comedy of Errors,” last produced at The Old Globe in 2015. Immediately after arriving in a new town, a young man and his sidekick are mistaken for their own long-lost twins, and everyone’s lives are turned upside down as mistaken identities, confused lovers, and all kinds of shenanigans ensue. Vásquez makes his triumphant return to the Summer Shakespeare Festival after directing 2023’s knockout comic hit “The Merry Wives of Windsor.”
“The Globe’s season of laughter continues with Shakespeare’s great masterpiece of mistaken identity, ‘The Comedy of Errors,’” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “The play just delivers. The story is a brilliantly constructed, the language accessible and energetic, and its characters make up a gallery of knuckleheads that sweep audiences on a journey of fun. San Diego’s own James Vásquez sets the play in a fantasy world of 1990s hijinks, injecting jolts of energy and invention into Shakespeare’s vivid world. You won’t want to miss this hilarious night of fun under the stars.”
The cast for “The Comedy of Errors” includes, in alphabetical order, Will Blum (Broadway’s “Beetlejuice”) as Dromio of Syracuse, Gina Daniels (Broadway’s “Network”) as Lady Abbess, Joshua Echebiri (The Old Globe’s King James, Theatre for a New Audience’s “The Swamp Dwellers”) as Antipholus of Ephesus, Brandon Micheal Hall (Broadway’s Trouble in Mind) as Antipholus of Syracuse, Kevin Orton (Broadway’s “Amadeus”) as Egeon, Daniel Petzold (The Old Globe’s “Appropriate”) as Dromio of Ephesus, Sarah Stiles (The Old Globe’s “Appropriate”) as Adriana, and Heather Velazquez (The Old Globe’s “American Mariachi”) as Luciana.
In addition to James Vásquez, the creative team includes Lawrence E. Moten III (scenic design); Amanda Vander Byl (costume design); Sherrice Mojgani (lighting design); Melanie Chen Cole (sound design); Nathan C. Crocker (voice and dialect), Alaine Alldaffer, CSA, Lisa Donadio (casting); and Chandra R.M. Anthenill (production stage manager).
Visit TheOldGlobe.org for a full schedule and additional information.
The Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar, scheduled for Tuesday, July 29, at 7 p.m., will provide patrons an exploration of the themes and background of The Comedy of Errors from selected artistic company members.
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