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CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER EMBARKS ON MAJOR EXPANSION PLAN
HEDY WEISS on March 2, 2016
The Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) has announced grand-scale plans to spread its wings on Navy Pier.
On Wednesday, the company’s artistic director, Barbara Gaines, and executive director Criss Henderson, announced a $35 million expansion project that will transfigure the theater’s “neighbor” – the easily identifiable white-tented, open-air Skyline Stage – into The Yard, a uniquely engineered, wholly enclosed, acoustically isolated, year-round performance space of exceptional flexibility. Conceived as an ingenious system of mobile “audience towers” that operate almost like a giant LEGO kit, it will be possible to reconfigure its interior into nine different formations to accommodate seating for from 150 to 850 people.
