STAGE

Director Change at Old Globe: Ron Link is out, Jack O’Brien is in as director of “Jake’s Women,” Neil Simon’s latest comedy, which opens Thursday at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and is scheduled to open at the end of next month in Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre. “It was not a meeting of the minds artistically,” said producer Emanuel Azenberg of Link’s dismissal Friday. He discouraged speculation that the show, which went into previews last Wednesday, is in trouble. But when reached at his hotel Monday, Simon said, “I’m in the middle of re-writes, I can’t talk.”