[NEohioPAL] Great Lakes Theater Festival Announces 2010-11 Season

[Todd Krispinsky]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 8, 2010


Great Lakes Theater Festival 
Announces Ambitious 2010-11 Season To 
Headline Hanna Theatre Home

 
CLEVELAND, OH (February 8, 2010) - Charles Fee, Producing Artistic
Director of Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF), formally announced
plans for the company's ambitious forty-ninth season over the weekend.
Scheduled to run from September 2010 through April 2011, the new season
will be performed at PlayhouseSquare's Hanna and Ohio Theatres.

In the fall (September 24-October 31, 2010), the Festival will present
Shakespeare's captivating psychological thriller, Othello in rotating
repertory with Oscar Wilde's witty comedy, An Ideal Husband.  Risa
Brainin will direct Othello.  Sari Ketter will direct An Ideal Husband.
GLTF's annual production of Charles Dickens' holiday classic, A
Christmas Carol (December 3-December 23, 2010), originally adapted and
directed by Gerald Freedman, will mark the midpoint of the Festival's
49th season.  In the Spring, GLTF will present Adam Long, Daniel Singer
and Jess Winfield's riotously irreverent romp The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare (Abridged) (March 11- 27, 2011) followed by
Shakespeare's doubly-delightful romantic comedy The Two Gentlemen of
Verona (April 8 - 23, 2011).  GLTF Producing Artistic Director Charles
Fee will direct both of the Festival's Spring productions.  (For
complete summaries of the plays, visit
http://www.greatlakestheater.org/season/#newSeason
<http://www.greatlakestheater.org/season/#newSeason> )

The Festival's 49th season is presented with generous support from The
Cleveland Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council.  In addition, Great
Lakes Theater Festival is generously funded by the citizens of Cuyahoga
County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

The Festival's four regular season offerings in 2010-11 (Othello,
Husband, Works and Two Gents), will take place in GLTF's revolutionary,
audience-friendly home at PlayhouseSquare's Hanna Theatre while A
Christmas Carol will remain in its traditional Ohio Theatre setting. 

Great Lakes Theater Festival's revolutionary, award-winning home at the
Hanna Theatre affords its audiences an intimate and visceral theater
experience unlike any other.  The Hanna's visionary "Great Room"
inspired design concept creates a single unified environment that
integrates the artist and audience into one realm and dissolves the
formal separation between the social experience of the lobby and the
artistic experience of the stage.  In addition, the Hanna offers patrons
a variety of seating options including traditional theater seats, club
chairs, banquettes, private boxes and lounge/bar enabling visitors to
self define their theater experience.  

In 2010-11, Opening Night performances of Othello, An Ideal Husband, The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) and The Two Gentlemen
of Verona have been scheduled for Saturday evenings, while A Christmas
Carol's Opening Night is slated for a Friday night.  Curtain times for
all evening performances will remain at 7:30 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m.
curtain time for Saturday matinees and a 3:00 p.m. curtain time for
Sunday matinees.  All five productions in the Festival's 49th season
will continue to offer sign interpreted and audio described performances
as well as the popular Director's Night and Playnotes pre-show
discussion series.  (For a complete performance calendar, visit
http://www.greatlakestheater.org/calendar/
<blocked::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/calendar/> .)

Subscriptions to Great Lakes Theater Festival's 2010-11 season are on
sale now.  An adult subscription to Great Lakes Theater Festival starts
as low as $105.  Student subscriptions begin at $39.  For more
information about becoming a Festival subscriber, patrons should contact
the Great Lakes Theater Festival subscription office at (216) 664-6064
or visit http://www.greatlakestheater.org/tickets/subscriptions.shtm
<http://www.greatlakestheater.org/tickets/subscriptions.shtm>  .

Single tickets will be available beginning in August.  Regular priced
adult single tickets will range from $15 - $70.  Regular priced
student/youth tickets for the Hanna Theatre are $13 ($26 for A Christmas
Carol in the Ohio Theatre) and will be available for all performances.
Additional handling fees may apply and may vary depending on point of
purchase.  Further details and pricing specifics for single performance
tickets will be announced in August.  Single tickets will be available
by calling (216) 241-6000, by ordering online at
www.greatlakestheater.org <blocked::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/>
and by visiting the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office. Groups of ten or more
receive discounts, as do educators.  

Great Lakes Theater Festival has brought the pleasure, power and
relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience since 1962.
The first resident company of PlayhouseSquare, GLTF will celebrate its
28th year in downtown Cleveland this season.  Festival programming
reaches 85,000 adults and students annually.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION
Todd Krispinsky
Marketing and Public Relations Director
(216) 241-5490 x317
tkrispinsky at greatlakestheater.org
<blocked::mailto:tkrispinsky at greatlakestheater.org> 
www.greatlakestheater.org <blocked::http://www.greatlakestheater.org/> 
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