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Tom Hanks Set for Great Lakes Theater Festival Fundraiser

| New York City |

August 31, 2009

Tom Hanks
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Tom Hanks
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tom Hanks will appear in Tom Hanks at the Hanna at Cleveland’s PlayhouseSquare on October 12, according to a report in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. This one-night-only event will be a fundraiser for the Great Lakes Theater Festival.

Before his career on television and in film, Hanks appeared in productions at the Ohio-based theater, including The Two Gentlemen of Verona in 1978. Proceeds from Hanks’ appearance will go toward raising the last $600,000 in Great Lakes’ $18.3 million campaign to pay for the renovation of the Hanna Theatre, one of the performance spaces at PlayhouseSquare.

For further information, visit www.greatlakestheater.org.

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