

And thanks to award-winning chefs, an explosion of world-class breweries, and a thriving local wine region, San Diego delivers on all three. Nothing caps a day at the beach quite like a cold brew or glass of local California wine, paired with an exceptional meal. Showtimes, 8 p.m.Fabulous food, craft beer and local wine. When: Opens tonight and runs through July 9. Edelstein said Vásquez is setting the play in the 1950s America world of “I Love Lucy” and “The Honeymooners” because the play is a sendup of Elizabethan suburban bourgeois mores. 3 is “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” directed by Old Globe resident artist James Vásquez. “Twelfth Night” is the first of two Shakespeare plays on the Globe’s festival stage this summer. It’s really a story of perseverance and finding his artistry,” she said. He had his ups and downs and at one point was seen as washed up. “He’s such a cultural icon, but most people don’t know this part of his story. It’s being produced by the Universal Music Group with the cooperation of Sinatra’s daughter, Tina, and will premiere in October in Birmingham, England. Playing Malvolio, Olivia’s pompous steward, is Greg Germann, of Fox’s “Ally McBeal.”Īfter finishing up “Twelfth Night,” Marshall will focus her directorial energies on her next big project, a new bio-musical about Frank Sinatra in his younger recording years. Starring in the production as Duke Orsino is Biko Eisen-Martin, who recently played Olympic sprinter John Carlos in the Globe’s “The XIXth (The Nineteenth).” Viola/Cesario is played by Naian González Norvind of NBC’s “Amsterdam” Olivia is played by Medina Senghore of SYFY network’s “Happy” and Sebastian is played by San Diego actor Jose Balistrieri. There are delightful comic moments, but also real genuine emotion with these characters longing for something they don’t have.”Įdelstein said he loves the work that Marshall has done at the Globe, creating what he calls “beautifully upholstered productions” that possess “an elegance and a beautiful sense of wit.” They’re trying to fight their way to their joy and sunshine. “They’re lost in some way and they have a void they’re trying to fill. “They are all searching for something,” she said. Marshall said she loves “Twelfth Night” for its characters. There’s a fluidity and elegance about it, but it’s relaxed.” An original score is being composed for the show by Miriam Sturm and Michael Bodeen, who collaborated on the Globe’s “The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci” earlier this year. Marshall has set her “Twelfth Night” in something like the Regency era because “it was a looser time that didn’t have the stiff formality of the baroque period before it or the Victorian period after it. Then Sebastian turns up alive, looking identical to his disguised twin sister, causing more romantic confusion. Instead, Olivia falls in love with Cesario and Viola is secretly in love with Orsino.

Viola disguises herself as the boy page Cesario and is tasked by the Illyrian Duke Orsino to woo the Countess Olivia in his stead. Set on the Illyrian seacoast, “Twelfth Night” is the story of young adult twins Viola and Sebastian who become separated in a shipwreck and each presumes the other dead.
