American Globe Center

Name: American Globe Center
Address: 1850 Elm Street, Stratford, CT, 06615, US
Telephone: +18333345623
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We're building a re-creation of the 1614 Globe PLUS a performing arts and education campus & park. Together, we can enhance the economy of Stratford.

In addition to the 1614 Globe Re-creation, the American Globe Center also includes the Stratford Playhouse, a modern performing arts center and multi-function/event space. Stratford will become home to a true destination theatre for the region, the nation, and the world. The leadership of the American Globe Center is comprised of established theatre and business professionals with a proven track r

ecord of funding and building commercially successful Shakespeare re-creation theatres, providing excellence in entertainment, inclusivity, education, and economic development. We are dedicated to making the Globe and Performing Arts Center an artistic home and a resonant voice for all the people of Stratford and the surrounding areas. The American Tourism Board states that for every $1 in ticket sales at a strong destination theatre, town businesses, restaurants, and lodging will net $5-7, which in our model = $25-50+ million annually. This will increase the tax base, raise property values, and make Stratford a more prosperous place to live, work, and raise families.

06/24/2025

Don't miss June’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, AGC Founding Artistic Director, and a panel of talented musicians, songwriters, and music directors who have created a Globe-load of music for many dozens of productions over decades.

Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Warren has worked with these panelists to wrestle with how to craft appropriately awesome music for Shakespeare shows in the 20th and 21st centuries that embraces the “live, unplugged, and modern” aesthetic from the original productions. Which company members can play which instruments? Who played clarinet in their middle school band and can pick it up again for an acoustic cover of an AC/DC song? What about more cowbell? How should Feste’s songs in TWELFTH NIGHT sound? What/how should Ophelia sing in HAMLET? Or Desdemona in OTHELLO? Bottom in MIDSUMMER?

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

06/22/2025

"On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love…"

https://www.stageable.com/american-globe-center

Join us for an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, AGC Founding Artistic Director, and a panel of talented musicians, songwriters, and music directors who have created a Globe-load of music for many dozens of productions over decades.

Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Warren has worked with these panelists to wrestle with how to craft appropriately awesome music for Shakespeare shows in the 20th and 21st centuries that embraces the “live, unplugged, and modern” aesthetic from the original productions. Which company members can play which instruments? Who played clarinet in their middle school band and can pick it up again for an acoustic cover of an AC/DC song? What about more cowbell? How should Feste’s songs in TWELFTH NIGHT sound? What/how should Ophelia sing in HAMLET? Or Desdemona in OTHELLO? Bottom in MIDSUMMER?

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

06/21/2025

Leading "On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love" on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central, 5p Pacific) is AGC Founding Artistic Director Jim Warren!

https://www.stageable.com/product/on-the-playground-with-jim-warren-music-in-shakespeare/21

Jim Warren is the Founding Artistic Director of the nascent American Globe Center (AGC) which will include the world’s only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare’s 1614 Globe theatre, the AGC Playhouse (a modern performing arts and education center with state-of-the-art mainstage and blackbox), an amphitheatre, gathering areas, gardens, and green space. The American Globe Center campus will be an inclusive home for the arts, rooted in its community and reaching across the world to bring lovers of theatre and Shakespeare together in one of several New England locations under consideration. The AGC is the culmination of Jim’s experience as a director, a leader, and a visionary. He knows the Globe will work because the first 30 years of his career, as the founder of the American Shakespeare Center, are proof of concept.

Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

06/20/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE…” on Tues. June 24 at 8p (7p Central, 5p Pacific) is Benjamin Curns.

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Benjamin Curns and Jim Warren were long-time collaborators at the American Shakespeare Center. Curns played over 100 roles at the ASC including the title characters in MACBETH, RICHARD III, and HAMLET (Q1); Puck in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM; Parolles in ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL; and Vindici in THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY, as well as directing, fight directing, and performing many hundreds of songs at the Blackfriars Playhouse and on tour.

Warren directed Curns as Mercutio and the Nurse in two different productions of R&J; Caliban in THE TEMPEST, Dunois in SAINT JOAN (by George Bernard Shaw); the Bastard in KING JOHN, Richard in THE LION IN WINTER; Falstaff in HENRY IV, PART 1; Petruchio in SHREW; Enobarbus and Clown in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; Achilles in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA; Algernon in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; Iago in OTHELLO; and a bunch of others.

In addition, Curns has composed original music for over a dozen productions, played in the house bands for the Elm Shakespeare Company and the American Shakespeare Center, and is the lead vocalist for the band He Was a God.

www.benjamincurns.com
www.hewasagod.com

06/19/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love..." on Tue. June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific) is Alexander Sovronsky.

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Actor. Musician. Music Director. Composer.
With numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional, and International credits to his name, Alexander has made a name for himself as a frequently sought after theatrical collaborator. He serves on Actors Equity Association’s newly formed Actor/Instrumentalist Committee.

After studying theater and acting in high school and undergrad, he got his Masters in Classical Acting at the Academy for Classical Acting at The Shakespeare Theatre Company through George Washington University. Jim Warren loved directing Alex in BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON as Henry Clay, Cowboy, Citizen, ensemble, and having him in the band.

In addition to being a performer and composer, Alexander is also a Shakespeare scholar. Since graduating from the ACA, he has taught workshops and lectures there on the Dramatic Function of Sound & Music in Shakespeare’s Plays. He has also taught these workshops at UConn, DeSales University, Mary Baldwin University, Shakespeare & Co., and at many other theaters, training programs, and universities around the country.

Alexander is an Affiliate Artist with The Magic Fluke Company, a small family-owned business out of Sheffield, MA that produces USA-made string instruments. Alexander has helped them develop their Cricket Violin, a modern travel acoustic/electric full-size violin based on the design of a Pochette (or pocket violin) used in Europe from the 15th-19th centuries. Alexander has also assisted in the development of their new 5-string Cricket (an acoustic/electric violin & viola hybrid instrument) that gives the player a deeper lower register.

For more info on the workshops he offers, or to inquire about private music lessons, you can message him directly through the CONTACT ME page on his website.
alexandersovronsky.com

06/18/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love..." on Tue. June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific) is Chris Johnston.

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Chris Johnston received his BFA from the University of Utah’s Actor Training Program and his MFA in Shakespeare & Performance from Mary Baldwin University. He has spent the last twenty years as an actor and music director for such companies as Salt Lake Shakespeare, Black Dog Theatre Company (founding member), Egyptian Theatre Company, and over 120 productions at the American Shakespeare Center. Most recent directing credits: ROMEO AND JULIET (Wayne Theatre) and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Blackfriars Playhouse). During his time at the ASC, he served as Resident Music Director and Actor Manager for several years.

Acting credits include Macbeth, Enobarbus in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, Feste in TWELFTH NIGHT, Flamenio in THE WHITE DEVIL (by John Webster), King Henry in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET (Henry VI, Part II), and Rosencrantz in ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD among many others. Music directing credits include the world premiere of THE WILLARD SUITCASES and 3 collaborations with director Jim Warren: BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER.

Check out his website and music streaming services to hear his songs and to consider music lessons offered online or in person in beautiful Staunton, Virginia.

chrisjohnstonmusic.com

06/15/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love..." on Tue. June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific) is a trio of talented musicians, songwriters, and music directors who have created a Globe-load of music for many dozens of productions over decades.

Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Warren has worked with these panelists to wrestle with how to craft appropriately awesome music for Shakespeare shows in the 20th and 21st centuries that embraces the “live, unplugged, and modern” aesthetic from the original productions. Which company members can play which instruments? Who played clarinet in their middle school band and can pick it up again for an acoustic cover of an AC/DC song? What about more cowbell? How should Feste’s songs in TWELFTH NIGHT sound? What/how should Ophelia sing in HAMLET? Or Desdemona in OTHELLO? Bottom in MIDSUMMER?

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

https://www.stageable.com/product/on-the-playground-with-jim-warren-music-in-shakespeare/21

This event is FREE to Stageable.com members and only $1 to everyone else. Click the link above to reserve your spot “on the playground.”

06/11/2025

"On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love…"
*important note - we are moving our "Playground" events to Tuesday evenings for the summer.

https://www.stageable.com/american-globe-center

For June’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, AGC Founding Artistic Director, and a panel of talented musicians, songwriters, and music directors who have created a Globe-load of music for many dozens of productions over decades.
Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Warren has worked with these panelists to wrestle with how to craft appropriately awesome music for Shakespeare shows in the 20th and 21st centuries that embraces the “live, unplugged, and modern” aesthetic from the original productions. Which company members can play which instruments? Who played clarinet in their middle school band and can pick it up again for an acoustic cover of an AC/DC song? What about more cowbell? How should Feste’s songs in TWELFTH NIGHT sound? What/how should Ophelia sing in HAMLET? Or Desdemona in OTHELLO? Bottom in MIDSUMMER?

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

06/10/2025

episode six of A MUSE OF FIRE - "Stageable"

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2wlmewM4Qx7H0AQMTNJZL1?si=dyYjJkwXR8y4vVCRpTOMeQ

This episode of A MUSE OF FIRE features Jim Warren, AGC Founding Artistic Director, Jason A Young, AGC Director of Outreach and Engagement, and Benjamin Reed, the Founder of Stageable.com. The trio discuss "the platform with a purpose" and the new partnership between the two budding organizations.

06/09/2025

For two days in Connecticut, we hosted Peter McCurdy, seen here with AGC founders Jim Warren and Tom Evans, the master craftsman who built Shakespeare's Globe in London!

Peter toured our site finalists and gave talks in Hartford and Norwich.

We are going to build the world's only timber-frame re-creation of Shakespeare's 1614 Globe Theatre, and Peter is going to help us!

05/24/2025

BIG NEWS: the craftsman who built Shakespeare's Globe in London (and worked on the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and the Shakespeare North Playhouse) is coming to Hartford, CT to share his brilliance and his stories on Friday, June 6 at 5:30p at the offices of HAPi (Hartford Architecture Partners, Inc.)

RSVP Required ---> https://hapiglobetalk.rsvpify.com/

Peter McCurdy is helping us build the world's only timber frame re-creation of Shakespeare's 1614 Globe theatre. This is your chance to meet him in-person.

05/22/2025

JUST ANNOUNCED: "On the Playground with Jim Warren: If Music Be the Food of Love…"

*important note - we are moving our "Playground" events to Tuesday evenings for the summer.

For June’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, AGC Founding Artistic Director, and a panel of talented musicians, songwriters, and music directors who have created a Globe-load of music for many dozens of productions over decades.

Music was an integral part of Shakespeare’s plays, with an “unplugged” band in the upper gallery providing live pre-show and in-show songs, sennets, serenades, and interludes. Some of the music from Shakespeare’s plays has survived, but not a lot. The evidence suggests that the plays are filled with snippets of popular songs of the time, original songs seemingly written for specific plays, and possibly new lyrics written for songs already familiar to Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences.

Warren has worked with these panelists to wrestle with how to craft appropriately awesome music for Shakespeare shows in the 20th and 21st centuries that embraces the “live, unplugged, and modern” aesthetic from the original productions. Which company members can play which instruments? Who played clarinet in their middle school band and can pick it up again for an acoustic cover of an AC/DC song? What about more cowbell? How should Feste’s songs in TWELFTH NIGHT sound? What/how should Ophelia sing in HAMLET? Or Desdemona in OTHELLO? Bottom in MIDSUMMER?

Let’s talk, play, and sing about it on Tuesday, June 24 at 8p Eastern (7p Central; 5p Pacific).

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1850 Elm Street
Stratford, CT
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+18333345623

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http://www.americanglobecenter.org/

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