NewsSee "Always Sunny" Star Glenn Howerton and Rory O'Malley and Team Up For The Comedy of Errors!The Old Globe theatre's Summer Shakespeare Festival production of The Comedy of Errors, directed by seven-time Tony nominee Scott Ellis (The Elephant Man, On the Twentieth Century, You Can't Take it With You), officially opened Aug. 22.
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Krissie Fullerton
August 24, 2015
Following previews that began Aug. 16, the cast is led by Tony nominee Rory O'Malley (The Book of Mormon) and Glenn Howerton from the hit TV series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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Book of Mormon's Rory O'Malley and "Always Sunny" Star Glenn Howerton Team Up For The Comedy of Errors
The cast also features Megan Dodds (West End’s My Name Is Rachel Corrie), Barrett Doss (You Can’t Take It with You), Austin Durant (You Can’t Take It with You), Patrick Kerr (You Can’t Take It with You ), Garth Schilling and Globe Associate Artist Deborah Taylor.
Joining them are Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program actors Amy Blackman, Lindsay Brill, Charlotte Bydwell, Lowell Byers, Ally Carey, Jamal Douglas, Tyler Kent, Jake Millgard, Makha Mthembu, Daniel Petzold, Megan M. Storti, Nathan Whitmer and Patrick Zeller.
In the Shakespeare farce The Comedy of Errors, a man and his servant arrive in a town, unaware that each of them has a set of identical twins already living there. The mix-up causes upset wives, upset creditors and ensuing scandal. For more information, please visit TheOldGlobe.
Filmed in 2023, the one-night-only event featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Peter Friedman, and more from the Ahrens and Flaherty musical's original cast.