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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.

25/08/2025

Don't Miss "On the Playground with Jim Warren: THE MACBETHS"

In this month’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, (AGC Founding Artistic Director), Jason Young (AGC Director of Audience Outreach and Engagement) and Sarah Young (AGC Interim Director of Education).

Have you ever wanted to join actors and directors in the rehearsal room for the table-work they do as bedrock in creating a Shakespeare show?

Have you heard about how Jim Warren takes actors through detailed explorations of Word Swapping and Verse Surfing to own Shakespeare’s language?

Have you ever wanted to get a peek at artists building a new performance piece from the ground up?

Well, here’s a triple scoop of tasty fun for you!

This month you get a backstage pass as Jim WORKS WITH Jason and Sarah on a BRAND NEW SHOW that weaves together Shakespeare’s scenes with Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth. This 2-person show-in-the-making will tell the tale of MACBETH through the lens of the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.

Tablework, Word Swap/Verse Surf, New Play, oh my!

Let’s talk about it on Tuesday, August 26 at 7p Eastern (6p Central; 4p Pacific).

SAVE THIS LINK ---> meet.google.com/vkp-rbmf-goe

24/08/2025

Shakespeare's original 1599 Globe was rebuilt in 1614 after a 1613 fire. The 1614 Globe featured a new tiled roof instead of the original thatched one, was a polygonal structure with a capacity of about 3,000 patrons, and used flags to advertise plays, with black for tragedies, white for comedies, and red for histories.

We are building the world's only timber-frame re-creation of the 1614 Globe. Stay tuned...

23/08/2025

THE MACBETHS, the AGC's newest production, stars Sarah and Jason Young, the co-founders of - West Virginia's Shakespeare troupe. They were also instrumental in the creation of SHAKESPEARE'S VILLAINS & CLOWNS @ THE GLOBE, the AGC's inaugural production.

Join them and director Jim Warren "On the Playground..." on Tue. Aug. 26 for a behind the scenes look into the show's creation and rehearsal process.

SAVE THIS LINK ---> meet.google.com/vkp-rbmf-go

22/08/2025

: another possibility of what the American Globe Center Globe+ campus may look like...

The world's only timber-frame re-creation of Shakespeare's 1614 Globe plus our modern state of the art performing arts and education center incorporated with residential living and commercial markets and restaurants...a true community!

21/08/2025

Directed by Jim Warren and starring Sarah and Jason Young, the American Globe Center's newest production, THE MACBETHS, is the topic of our Tue. Aug. 26 "On the Playground..." conversation.

SAVE THIS LINK ---> meet.google.com/vkp-rbmf-go

Have you ever wanted to join actors and directors in the rehearsal room for the table-work they do as bedrock in creating a Shakespeare show?

Have you heard about how Jim Warren takes actors through detailed explorations of Word Swapping and Verse Surfing to own Shakespeare’s language?

Have you ever wanted to get a peek at artists building a new performance piece from the ground up?

Well, here’s a triple scoop of tasty fun for you!

This month you get a backstage pass as Jim WORKS WITH Jason and Sarah on a BRAND NEW SHOW that weaves together Shakespeare’s scenes with Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth. This 2-person show-in-the-making will tell the tale of MACBETH through the lens of the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.

Table Work, Word Swap/Verse Surf, New Play, oh my!

Let’s talk about it on Tuesday, August 26 at 7p Eastern (6p Central; 4p Pacific).

19/08/2025

Don't miss...next week...

"On the Playground with Jim Warren: THE MACBETHS"

In this month’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, (AGC Founding Artistic Director), Jason Young (AGC Director of Audience Outreach and Engagement) and Sarah Young (AGC Interim Director of Education).

Have you ever wanted to join actors and directors in the rehearsal room for the table-work they do as bedrock in creating a Shakespeare show?

Have you heard about how Jim Warren takes actors through detailed explorations of Word Swapping and Verse Surfing to own Shakespeare’s language?

Have you ever wanted to get a peek at artists building a new performance piece from the ground up?

Well, here’s a triple scoop of tasty fun for you!

This month you get a backstage pass as Jim WORKS WITH Jason and Sarah on a BRAND NEW SHOW that weaves together Shakespeare’s scenes with Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth. This 2-person show-in-the-making will tell the tale of MACBETH through the lens of the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.

Table Work, Word Swap/Verse Surf, New Play, oh my!

Let’s talk about it on Tuesday, August 26 at 7p Eastern (6p Central; 4p Pacific).

SAVE THIS LINK ---> meet.google.com/vkp-rbmf-go

13/08/2025

The AGC has a BRAND NEW SHOW...

THE MACBETHS
by William Shakespeare, Jim Warren, Jason A Young, Sarah Young

Vaulting Ambition.

The power of a prophesy tempts the ambitious General Macbeth and his passionately persuasive wife to accelerate their road to royalty.

Something wicked this way comes in THE MACBETHS – two actors, less than 45min, all the scenes with Mrs. and Mr. Macbeth, and more.

Buckle up for this pulse-pounding, breakneck ride: Shakespeare’s thrilling exploration of just how far we’ll go to get what we think we deserve, told through the prism of the original power couple.

"I feel now the future in the instant."
Act I, scene v

01/08/2025

JUST ANNOUNCED: "On the Playground with Jim Warren: THE MACBETHS"

In this month’s “On the Playground,” the American Globe Center and Stageable.com present an online and interactive discussion with Jim Warren, (AGC Founding Artistic Director), Jason Young (AGC Director of Audience Outreach and Engagement) and Sarah Young (AGC Interim Director of Education).

Have you ever wanted to join actors and directors in the rehearsal room for the table-work they do as bedrock in creating a Shakespeare show?

Have you heard about how Jim Warren takes actors through detailed explorations of Word Swapping and Verse Surfing to own Shakespeare’s language?

Have you ever wanted to get a peek at artists building a new performance piece from the ground up?

Well, here’s a triple scoop of tasty fun for you!

This month you get a backstage pass as Jim WORKS WITH Jason and Sarah on a BRAND NEW SHOW that weaves together Shakespeare’s scenes with Mr. and Mrs. Macbeth. This 2-person show-in-the-making will tell the tale of MACBETH through the lens of the original power couple whose vaulting ambition unravels their love and their lives.

Tablework, Word Swap/Verse Surf, New Play, oh my!

Let’s talk about it on Tuesday, August 26 at 7p Eastern (6p Central; 4p Pacific).

SAVE THIS LINK ---> meet.google.com/vkp-rbmf-goe

21/07/2025

For July'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 Philosophy of Hamlets.

HAMLET is one of the most talked and written about plays in the English language.
We’re going to chat with a bunch of actors Jim Warren has directed as the Danish Prince, the Melancholy Dane, the Ham-Bone, and the Dude who was the life of every party before his father died.

How intimidating is it to tackle THAT role? Did you create your own backstory for Hamlet’s relationships with Ophelia, his dad, his uncle? Is “to be or not to be” about su***de? How did you “put on an antic disposition”? Did you sword fight at the end with Laertes or have some other kind of duel? What about that crazy stuff Jim Warren did by using the First Quarto scene sequence, AND, in some productions, working up both Q1 and First Folio scene sequences and doing a coin flip onstage before the show to decide which version we’d perform that night?
And, of course, how did you memorize all those lines?

Got any questions you’d like to ask?

Let’s talk about it on Tuesday, July 22 at 7p Eastern (6p Central; 4p Pacific).

19/07/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: HAMLET" on Tues. July 22 at 7p Eastern is JOHN HARRELL.

John was an undergraduate student at James Madison University in 1988 when Jim (a recent JMU grad) and Shakespeare scholar Ralph Cohen founded the Shenandoah Shakespeare Express. John joined the SSE in 1990 when JULIUS CAESAR was in the first rep season and played at the annual Shakespeare Association of America meeting, helping enlist the “Shakespeare Professor Mafia” to power the fledgling touring company.

Throughout the next three decades of SSE tours + the first Blackfriars Playhouse Resident Troupe + countless workshops and thousands of pre-show/intermission songs, John’s time at the American Shakespeare Center spanned 28 seasons and over 200 roles.

Warren directed Harrell in dozens of those roles, including the title characters in CYRANO DE BERGERAC and KING JOHN; Crumpet the Elf in THE SANTALAND DIARIES; York in THE RISE OF QUEEN MARGARET (Henry VI, Part 2); Lear’s Fool in KING LEAR; Ariel in RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET; Pandarus, Ajax in TROILUS AND CRESSIDA; Prince John in THE LION IN WINTER; Cloten on CYMBELINE; Tony Lumpkin in SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER; Roderigo in OTHELLO; Lady Bracknell in THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST; Ford in MERRY WIVES; Rover in WILD OATS; Don Pedro in MUCH ADO; Octavius Caesar in ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA; Scrooge in A CHRISTMAS CAROL;
and Hamlet in HAMLET (2011).

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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.”

16/07/2025

Joining us for "On the Playground with Jim Warren: HAMLET" on Tues. July 22 at 7p Eastern is JAMES RICKS.

James earned his BFA in Theatre from the University of Oklahoma and his MFA from The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy of Classical Acting in Washington, DC.

James played Puck in MIDSUMMER in the first Shenandoah Shakespeare Express performance that opened the Blackfriars Playhouse in September of 2001. For national and international tours with the SSE, Jim Warren directed James as Aumerle in RICHARD II.
And Hamlet in HAMLET and ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD in repertory (2001).

Currently, James is the Producing Artistic Director of Richmond Shakespeare.
https://richmondshakespeare.org
For Richmond Shakes, James has directed LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST, LYSISTRATA, AS YOU LIKE IT, THE TEMPEST, RED VELVET, ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, THE BOTTOM SHOW, AN ILIAD, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, HAMLET, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, SCHOOL FOR LIES, and DOCTOR FAUSTUS.

James has been nominated numerous times by the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle for his work as a director in Richmond, VA.

https://www.stageable.com/product/on-the-playground-with-jim-warren-hamlet/21?fbclid=IwY2xjawLkeLhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE1SFlmNzQ2cEU0cHZFNDhEAR6BSZ9Gu-M1xkAT63HVkdYqcRoi9p5-uM_B6gbT8KCRpUfBg5ZknarVbvlJIg_aem_7TNeosiJW4BP49PyJ7xm6w

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.”

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