FEBRUARY 2017 WELCOME JIM COX elcome to Picasso at the Lapin Agile! We’re thrilled to kick off 2017 with this funny, fascinating, and endlessly W surprising play. As we begin a new year, we also celebrate the phenomenal successes of 2016. Last year, the Globe broke box office records with hits like Meteor Shower (another Steve Martin comedy) and our acclaimed productions of October Sky and Sense and Sensibility. It was also an outstanding year for philanthropy. Individual donors gave generously to support our mission, and the Globe reaped the benefit of major foundation and government support. Our Arts Engagement Department successfully launched a slate of new programs funded in part by The James Irvine Foundation’s New California Arts Fund, and the National Endowment for the Arts awarded the Globe a major grant to support new play development. In every way, 2016 was a banner year for The Old Globe. We couldn’t imagine a better way to start 2017 than Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Not only does the production mark the welcome return of writer Steve Martin to the Globe, it pairs him with his longtime collaborator—and our Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director—Barry Edelstein. Here, Barry shepherds an all-star cast featuring returning Globe favorites alongside talented performers making their Globe debuts. 2016 will be a tough act to top, but this show bodes well for another banner year of great theatre in Balboa Park. We hope to see you often at the Globe in the coming year! MISSION STATEMENT The mission of The Old Globe is to preserve, strengthen, and advance American theatre by: creating theatrical experiences of the highest professional standards; producing and presenting works of exceptional merit, designed to reach current and future audiences; ensuring diversity and balance in programming; providing an environment for the growth and education of theatre professionals, audiences, and the community at large. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 1 LEADING SPONSORS LEADING SPONSORS KAREN AND DONALD COHN UNITED Karen and Donald Cohn have served in leadership roles at The Old Globe for nearly 25 years and have United Airlines and United Express operate more than 4,500 flights a day to 339 airports across five given over $9 million to the theatre. Karen, a graduate of University of San Diego’s School of Law, is continents. In 2015, United and United Express operated more than 1.5 million flights carrying more than involved with numerous major arts and cultural institutions. Don is the founder and former CEO of 140 million customers. United is proud to have the world’s most comprehensive route network, including Dataquick Information Systems Inc. and is owner of Ballena Vista Farms in Ramona, one of Southern U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York/Newark, San Francisco, and California’s largest thoroughbred racing, breeding, and training facilities. Don has served as Board Chair Washington, DC. United operates more than 720 mainline aircraft, and this year the airline anticipates at the Globe and continues his work on the Executive and other committees. Karen first joined the Globe taking delivery of 21 new Boeing aircraft, including 737NGs, 787s, and 777s, as well as six used Airbus Board in 1992. She co-chaired the first Globe Gala, and 2017 will mark her 10th year successfully co- A319 aircraft. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 192 countries chairing this landmark event. She also served two terms as Chair of the Board of Directors. The Cohns via 28 member airlines. The Old Globe salutes United Airlines for its outstanding generosity and for have supported several productions, including Sense and Sensibility, Kiss Me, Kate, The Winter’s Tale, caring for the flight needs of theatre artists and staff year-round. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Merchant of Venice. Karen and Don helped launch the Globe’s Capital Campaign in 2006 with a significant gift, and, in recognition, the SHERYL AND HARVEY WHITE Globe’s education center is named in their honor. Over their long association with The Old Globe, Sheryl and Harvey White have played many leadership roles at the theatre, each serving terms as Chair of the Board of Directors, with Harvey serving as PETER COOPER AND NORMAN BLACHFORD Co-Chair of the Globe’s $75 million Capital and Endowment Campaign. Sheryl is co-chairing this year’s Peter Cooper and Norman Blachford are longtime supporters of The Old Globe and are well-known for Globe Gala and will hold the distinction of co-chairing 11 successful Galas. The Whites have been Leading their major philanthropic activities and community activism. Norman serves on the Founders Council of Sponsors for many years and, in addition to last year’s successful October Sky, they have sponsored such the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. A native of Montreal, he founded a manufacturing firm that productions as Bright Star, The Last Goodbye, Arms and the Man, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Dancing in produces noise control materials for the transportation industry and many international corporations. the Dark, The First Wives Club, and A Room with a View. Additionally, they sponsored Lost in Yonkers, the In 1981, Norman and Louis Stankiewicz were awarded a Technical Achievement Award (stage operations) inaugural production in the arena theatre that bears their name in recognition of their significant Capital by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Peter, a semiretired businessman, is a member of Campaign and cumulative giving of $8 million to the Globe. Sheryl serves on the Globe’s Executive Board the Globe’s Board of Directors and sits on the Executive Committee as Vice Chair, Arts Engagement. He Committee, and Harvey is an Emeritus Director. is also a Founders Council member of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and is a part of the HIV Funding Collaborative at the San Diego Human Dignity Foundation. EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP Since the founding of The Old Globe in 1935, heroic leadership The following individuals and organizations, recognized for their has made the theatre a cultural icon in San Diego and a leader in tremendous cumulative giving, comprise a special group of friends JEAN AND GARY SHEKHTER the American theatre. Many individuals have paved the way and who have played leading “behind-the-scenes” roles, helping to create Jean and Gary Shekhter came to the United States from the Soviet Union in the late 1970s. Grateful for enabled the theatre’s extraordinary success, and the Globe would the productions on the three stages, programs in the community, all that their new country and community provided them, the Shekhters have been generous supporters like to recognize and honor its most generous and committed and our influence beyond this region. of many charitable institutions. Jean has served on the Globe’s Board since 2008 and serves on the philanthropists who have helped make that success possible. Development Committee. Gary and Jean reside in Rancho Santa Fe. They have sponsored The Twenty- — $25 million and higher — seventh Man and Rain and are honored to sponsor this wonderful revival of Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Donald* and Darlene Shiley — $11 million and higher — Conrad Prebys* | City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture KAREN AND STUART TANZ — $9 million and higher — Karen Tanz is a proud member of The Old Globe's Board of Directors and is active with many philanthropic Karen and Donald Cohn organizations in San Diego. Originally from Toronto, Karen studied theatre management at The Banff — $8 million and higher — School of Fine Arts, which inspired her work in live theatre and television in Canada. She most recently Sheryl and Harvey White made her Broadway debut as a producer of the musical Allegiance, which premiered at the Globe in 2012. Stuart Tanz is President and CEO of ROIC, a position he has held since 2009. He also serves as Chairman — $7 million and higher — of the University of Toronto Tanz Center for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Karen and Stuart Kathryn Hattox | Viterbi Family and The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund moved to Rancho Santa Fe in 1989 to raise two children and now have a gorgeous granddaughter. They — $4 million and higher — have previously sponsored October Sky and are proud to sponsor this exciting Steve Martin revival. Audrey S. Geisel — $3 million and higher — ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FUND Helen K. and James S. Copley Foundation | The James Irvine Foundation | County of San Diego In 2016, Andrew J. Viterbi and his family created the Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Fund with a $5 million gift in memory of their beloved mother and wife. This generous and visionary gift is helping to sustain — $1 million and higher — Mary Beth Adderley Globe Guilders Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin The Old Globe for many years as it encourages others to contribute to the theatre’s long-term stability. Bank of America Joan and Irwin Jacobs The Shubert Foundation The Viterbi family’s passion for philanthropy is inspiring, and The Old Globe is proud to have been a Diane and John Berol The Kresge Foundation Theatre Forward beneficiary of their largesse for years, including a leadership gift of $2 million to the Capital Campaign Stephen & Mary Birch Foundation, Inc. The Lipinsky Family Gillian and Tony Thornley in 2006. Erna loved the arts, and theatre in particular, and her magnanimous spirit and considerable California Cultural & Historical Endowment Estate of Beatrice Lynds* Wells Fargo J. Dallas and Mary Clark* National Endowment for the Arts Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome warmth touched many. The Old Globe believes it is fitting that her name is now attached to the values of Valerie and Harry Cooper Victor H.* and Jane Ottenstein Anonymous (1) the Globe’s artistic output while the theatre’s body of work honors her blessed memory.