Day of the Dead goes live at the Old Globe Theatre with free celebration on Sunday

The Old Globe Theatre's Day of the Dead celebration includes a mini-parade.

Event in Copley Plaza is part of Balboa Park institution’s ‘AXIS’ outreach program

Nov. 1, 2019

5:40 AM

The Old Globe Theatre marks Día de los Muertos on Sunday with a free, family-minded event that includes arts-and-crafts stations, face painting, a drumming workshop and a mini-parade.

And at noon comes a Spanish-language performance of the Day of the Dead-themed play “Hermanas (Sisters),” written by the San Diego-based theater artist Daniel Jáquez; the performance will be repeated in English at 1 p.m.

The events are all part of the Globe’s “Axis” outreach program, which offers free cultural events for the community.

Old Globe Theatre’s Day of the Dead commemoration

When: 11 a.m. Sunday.

Where: Old Globe Theatre, Balboa Park.

Tickets: Free.

Phone: (619) 234-5623.

Online: theoldglobe.org

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James Hebert

James Hebert is The San Diego Union-Tribune’s theater critic, and has covered the San Diego arts scene for more than two decades. He earned his master’s degree at Columbia University in New York and worked as a magazine editor in Boston before joining the U-T. Hebert’s awards include a national arts-writing prize from the Society for Features Journalism (for a profile of the choreographer Twyla Tharp), and some two dozen local and regional journalism honors; his work also has been republished in two college writing textbooks. In 2009, Hebert served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.