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.

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.

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

When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.

I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

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