GLT presents Shakespeare's Towering Tragedy MACBETH

Great Lakes Theater (GLT), Cleveland's Classic Company, continues the second half its 56th season with Shakespeare's towering tragedy Macbeth. The production will be performed in the company's intimate and audience-friendly home at the Hanna Theatre, Playhouse Square, March 29 - April 15, 2018. GLT's Producing Artistic Director, Charles Fee directs the production.

Generous support for Macbeth was provided by John and Barbara Schubert, Shakespeare in American Communities (a national program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest). Great Lakes Theater is also supported in part by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. Season support is provided by The Cleveland Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council. Media sponsors for GLT's 56th season are The FORM Group, and ideastream.

The production's innovative design concept will, once again, transform the Hanna Theatre into an Elizabethan-style theater that incorporates onstage seating sections that surround the playing area and create an immersive experience for audiences. (Onstage seats are padded benches with backs similar in style to church pews. The bench seat is padded. Seating is assigned.) "We have chosen to set Macbeth in the Elizabethan period for several reasons. Foremost is our desire to create a stage structure similar to that of The Globe Theatre in which Macbeth was performed," said director Fee.

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