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CHICAGO — Roche Schulfer said Wednesday that he plans to retire from his job as executive director of the Goodman Theatre, effective Aug. 31. “For everything there is a season,” Schulfer said in a telephone interview. While the news is hardly a surprise, given that Schulfer is 72 and his longtime Goodman artistic partner Robert Falls exited in 2022, the departure brings to a close an extraordinary arts management career that expertly led Chicago’s largest theater through the rough waters of the COVID-19 crisis and the changing tastes and habits of audiences. Schulfer (the Tribune’s Chicagoan o…

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