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| Formation | 1962 |
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| Type | Theatre group |
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Artistic director(s) | Charles Fee |
| Website | www |
Great Lakes Theater, originally known as the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, is a professional classic theater company in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1962, Great Lakes specializes in large-cast classic plays, often performing the works of Shakespeare. The company performs its main stage productions in rotating repertory at the Hanna Theatre in Playhouse Square, which reopened in 2008. The organization shares a resident company of artists with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. On its main stage and through its education programs, GLT reaches approximately 85,000 adults and students each season.
GLT's artistic directors have included Arthur Lithgow, Lawrence Carra, Vincent Dowling, and Gerald Freedman.