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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 .
In 1958, he moved to Northern Ohio as Executive Director of Stan Hywet Hall in Akron, Ohio. [3] He produced a summer Shakespeare festival in 1960, but was fired from Stan Hywet in May 1961. [7] Having already scheduled a second summer Shakespeare season in 1961, he produced the festival at the Ohio Theater in Cuyahoga Falls.
The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, co-founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Ferguson Penfield Seiberling.. They named their "American Country Estate" Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site's earlier use and the abandoned stone quarries located on the grounds of ...
Langston Fishburne, playing the lead role of Othello, performs a scene during a tech rehearsal for Othello at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens ahead of the Ohio Shakespeare Festival Tuesday, July 30 ...
Ohio Shakespeare Festival costume designer Marty LaConte, left, makes adjustments to Langston Fishburne’s costume before a technical rehearsal for "Othello" at Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens Tuesday.
Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is located at 714 N. Portage Path in Akron and became a museum in 1957. At 64,500 square feet, the manor house is among the largest private residences in the country.
He spent his teenage years in Akron (living at Stan Hywet Hall) [11] and Lakewood, Ohio, [12] followed by Princeton, New Jersey. Lithgow graduated from Princeton High School in 1963. [13] He then studied history and English literature at Harvard College. Lithgow lived in Adams House as an undergraduate and later served on Harvard's Board of ...
Seiberling's private home Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens, a Tudor Revival home built in 1915, remains in Akron and is now a National Historic landmark and historic house museum open to the public. Originally the site encompassed approximately 3,000 acres of land.