Barbara Gaines will exit her position as artistic director of Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the company she founded some 36 years ago.
Gaines, 75, said her tenure had been a great ride: “My life,” she said, “has surpassed my wildest dreams.” Gaines also said the decision had been long in the making, and actually had been delayed by the pandemic and all of the insecurity it represented for the theater. “I feel that I can leave now,” she said, “believing that we will be able to continue in a really healthy way.”
Chicago Shakespeare Theater is generally regarded as Chicago’s third-largest theater, although under Gaines it now has a spectacular physical facility and has also maintained a robust and leading program of international presentations by major theater companies from around the world. Criss Henderson, the executive director of Chicago Shakespeare and Gaines’ professional partner for some 32 years, hailed Gaines for her “authentic civic engagement” and noted that few directors have a comparable body of experience with the Bard. Gaines has directed over 60 shows at CST, including around 30 of Shakespeare’s plays, some several times. Almost all of her work has been at her home theater and she generally has seen her job almost entirely in terms of her home city.
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