San Diego, CA -

Balboa Park is filled with dozens of attractions from the San Diego Zoo to museums to even Performing Arts. 9 theaters can be found inside the park, each unique in design and performances: from ballet to puppets to Tony Award® -winning.

The most famous is The Old Globe (below photos). Founded in 1935, the Globe produces 15 plays and musicals annually–from the renowned Summer Shakespeare Festival to world-premiere productions that have gone on to Broadway.The Old Globe is actually made up of three unique venues: the historic Old Globe Theater; the intimate Cassius Carter Center Stage, and the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theater.

Another historic theater is the Starlight Theater & Bowl, which is One of the oldest continuously producing musical theater companies in the United States, Starlight presented its first season in 1946 and has featured more than 1,000 productions of 120 musicals. Since it is an outdoor theater, performances occur during the months of July, August, and September.

In addition to the theaters, Balboa Park also showcases the Spreckles Organ Pavillion. The whole venue is based around one of the world’s largest outdoor pipe organs, which was donated by John D. and Adolph Spreckels in 1914. This unique organ contains 4,530 pipes ranging in length from the size of a pencil to 32 feet and is housed in an ornate vaulted structure with highly embellished gables. Since 1917, San Diego has had a civic organist, who performs free weekly Sunday concerts from 2-3pm June-August.

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