The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Creativity is a form of knowledge.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater, but rather giving the audience a voice and a role in experiencing theater.

Theatre and opera were always the twin kingdoms that I felt I had to conquer, because they were my parents' favorites.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.