[SML] Theater Festivals

[Richard John Archer]

I worked in Cleveland on and off from 1976 through 1992. Most of the time this was for the Great Lakes Theatre Festival --formerly the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival
--and now just the Great Lakes Theatre  along with short stints at the ballet, Cleveland Playhouse, and a photographers studio.    Great Lakes moved into the renovated Ohio in Playhouse Square in 1982.  The Theatre had an off and on relationship with the IA under various contract rules with which I lived but had nothing to do with forming.   I spent lots of time in the area, day and night and into the wee hours.  i never had a problem but I have not been there in years…..any bar I knew of downtown has likely been replaced.  

You can read one person's opinion about some of that era by googling up-- Hollywood heavy, clevelandmob.com.  --- This will take you to a non verified article from LA Weekly


DickA
TD, Cornell U