The Re-Imagined Hanna Theatre will become the permanent home for Great Lakes Theater Festival and will feature a flexible hydraulic thrust stage located within the heart of an intimate 550-seat house. A team of architects from Cleveland-based architectural firm, Westlake Reed Leskosky, and GLTF resident artists have collaborated to conceive and create a world-class space that will welcome the visitor, stimulate the imagination and infuse the valuable architectural elements of a 1920’s theater with a timeless contemporary sensibility.

• The Great Room – A Dynamic New Experience
  The Hanna Theatre experience finds its inspiration in the idea of classic home design’s “Great Room.” In the Re-Imagined Hanna, all of the evening’s activity will occur in a single unified space. Within the environment, will exist a variety of seating options and social interaction opportunities that encourage audience engagement with one another and with the art form while simultaneously enabling each visitor to self define their experience at the theater. Click here to read more.
• State-of-the-ART – Innovation Meets Creation
  At the heart of the Hanna Theatre’s Great Room design beats innovative state-of-the-art technology conceived to maximize the space’s flexibility, heighten the audience’s experience and enhance the artist’s creative process. In the theater’s new configuration, audiences will sit on three sides of the playing area. The Hanna’s new signature attributes: 1) the “Parker Hannifin Stage” – a fully-flexible, hydraulic, thrust stage in three sections and 2) an automatic structurally independent fly system, an engineering “first” designed by architecture firm Westlake Reed Leskosky promise to position the Re-Imagined Hanna Theatre as one of the most innovative theater renovations in the country. Click here to read more.