page_title: Hanna Theatre
section_title: Original structure
hierarchical_section_title: Hanna Theatre / Original structure
caption_attribution_description: The stage is ready for the taping... I went to see the taping of "Washington Week" at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 15, 2016. "Washington Week" is a weekly PBS public affairs show which airs on most stations on Friday. The host is Gwen Ifill. They taped two episodes of "Washington Week" the same afternoon. One was the regular show, and one was the "Special RNC Cleveland Edition" -- in which they took questions from the audience.
context_page_description: The Hanna Theatre is a theater at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It is one of the original five venues built in the district, opening on March 28, 1921. The Hanna Theatre reopened in 2008 as the new home of Great Lakes Theater Festival after a major renovation by the classic theater company.
context_section_description: The Hanna Theatre was envisioned by industrialist and publisher Daniel Rhodes Hanna as part of a larger complex in memorial to his father, late U.S. Senator Mark A. Hanna, and was designed by architect Charles A. Platt. Faustinno Sampietro was responsible for most of the interior decorations, which included green and gold carpets, dark green seats, frescoed walls, a fireplace, and Louis XVI gilt furniture; the ceiling was coffered and was made up of circular and octagonal medallions, each of which contained gilded classical figures (including Cupid, Psyche, and Pegasus). The orchestra level consisted of 827 seats arranged in 24 rows, and the upper deck held 570 seats. Four rows in the mezzanine, ten rows in the upper balcony, and the box seats brought the theatre's full capacity to 1,421. The stage was forty feet in width and forty feet in depth, equipped with a thirty-six foot proscenium arch.  Some idiosyncrasies exist in the layout: Dan Hanna insisted he wanted more room in between the fourth and fifth rows when he tested out a seat he meant to reserve for himself, and as a result there remained thirty-five inches in between these two rows instead of the standard thirty-one inches.
caption: Theatre hosting the taping of Washington Week during the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland
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