2026 season<\/a> on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe\u2019s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego\u2019s Balboa Park. Performances begin Feb. 7 and will continue through March 8. Opening night is Feb. 12. <\/p>\n\n\tEdelstein will direct the fresh take, which was commissioned by the Globe and adapted by veteran playwright and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, whose long list of feature film credits includes Secretary<\/em>, Men, Women & Children, The Girl on the Train<\/em>, Chloe<\/em> and Snow White.<\/em> For the stage, she has penned Hands, Wilder, Stop All the Clocks, The Trail of Her Inner Thigh, The Erotica Project, Hurricane, My Girl is in Front<\/em> and others. <\/p>\n\n\tHolmes will star as the title character in the story of what happens when Hedda and her husband, George Tesman, return from their honeymoon with cracks in their union already showing. Bored and restless, she tries to control those around her but as her schemes tighten, her own world begins to unravel.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cHedda Gabler<\/em> is one of the landmark works of world drama and I\u2019m truly thrilled to bring a bracing new take on it to the Globe,\u201d said Edelstein, who serves as the Erna Finci Viterbi artistic director at the Globe. \u201cLike all of Ibsen\u2019s plays, this one is obsessed by how the choices we make in our pasts come back around to shape our present. That\u2019s why it\u2019s so fun that it reunites me with two artists I\u2019ve had significant collaborations with over the years. One is playwright and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, who renews this classic through her frank and dynamic voice, with incendiary results. The other is a major figure in American film, TV, and theatre, the wonderful Katie Holmes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tEdelstein continued: \u201cHedda, like Hamlet, rises or falls with the actor in the title role. She\u2019s everything: victim, tyrant, femme fatale, funny, scathing, tragic. Only an actor with immense imagination and charisma can take on Hedda Gabler, and in Katie\u2019s radiant and powerful performance, Globe audiences are going to witness something rare and special. She\u2019s an artist at the height of her powers and we\u2019re lucky to have her in San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tNorwegian scribe Ibsen debuted Hedda Gabler <\/em>in 1891. The work\u2019s Wikipedia page is dense as it\u2019s been adapted, staged and reinterpreted countless times over the years. A long list of Hollywood stars have stepped into the title role, among them Anne Meacham, Ingrid Bergman, Peggy Ashcroft, Diana Rigg, Glenda Jackson, Isabelle Huppert, Kate Burton, Kelly McGillis, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Jane Fonda, Annette Bening, Judy Davis, Emmanuelle Seigner, Mary-Louise Parker, Harriet Walter, Rosamund Pike, Cate Blanchett and others.<\/p>\n\n\tMore information on casting and the show\u2019s creative team will be announced at a later date. Hedda Gabler<\/em> is supported by lead production sponsor, the Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund. Additional support comes from the City of San Diego and the Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund.<\/p>\n\n\tHolmes is currently shepherding Happy Hours<\/em>, a feature film she is directing from her own script. She also stars opposite Joshua Jackson, Mary-Louise Parker, Constance Wu and Jack Martin, among others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Katie Holmes has a date with the stage in Southern California. The veteran star is set to topline a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen\u2019s iconic work Hedda Gabler at San Diego\u2019s Old Globe Theatre. The casting reunites Holmes with the Globe\u2019s artistic director, Barry Edelstein, who directed her in the Off-Broadway production of The Wanderers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2540,2539,2541,2538,2537,1432,933,62,2542],"class_list":{"0":"post-2315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fashion","8":"tag-diegos","9":"tag-gabler","10":"tag-globe","11":"tag-hedda","12":"tag-holmes","13":"tag-katie","14":"tag-san","15":"tag-star","16":"tag-theatre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}